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	Great Plains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Plains is the broad expanse of prairie which lies east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States of America and Canada, covering all or parts of the U.S. states of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
		The High Plains refers to the elevated region of the Great Plains generally west of the 100th meridian, which roughly corresponds with the line west of which there is 20 inches (500 mm) of rainfall a year or less.
		Historically the Great Plains were the range of the bison and of the Great Plains culture of the Native American tribes of the Blackfeet, Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche and others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Plains (873 words)

	"Walter Prescott WebbÃs Great Plains Thesis"
		In the Great Plains region, this rainfall pattern stretches from roughly the 98th meridian to the 120th meridian (the Pacific slope).
		Crops that depended upon abundant rainfall were planted in an intensive fashion on the Plains and promptly withered and died because of the lack of rain and the constant chinook winds which blew off the Rockies and scorched the Plains.
		The American military found the Indians of the Great Plains to be a formidable enemy in battle and a barrier to westward expansion that took a quarter century to remove.
	www2.austincc.edu /lpatrick/his1302/webb.html (2936 words)

	GREAT PLAINS
		The Great Plains are subject to tornadoes, heavy hailstorms, ice storms, bitter cold, droughts, blizzards, and dust storms (Jones 17).
		Despite the harsh weather, the soil of the Plains is extremely fertile due to glacial deposits left during the last Ice Age (Kraenzel 24) and to the sedimentary deposits of slow moving rivers and wind (Schell 7).
		The original European and American explorers developed the same respect for the land that the Native Americans did; however, it would take longer for the settlers to achieve this reverence for the plains, and the effects of their learning would prove to be very damaging to the Midwestern ecosystem.
	keller.clarke.edu /~english/honors/aaron/sec2.htm (1838 words)

	An Outline of American Geography - Chapter 11
		Physiographically, the largest portion of the Great Plains is the High Plains stretching along the western margin of the region from south Texas northward to southern Nebraska.
		Great herds of cattle were driven northward from south Texas to railheads in Kansas both for shipment east and to stock the huge, relatively unsettled Plains region.
		Today, the Great Plains is America's premier wheat-producing region, and it is largely on the abundance of Plains agriculture that the United States is the world's top wheat exporter.
	usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/geography/geog11.htm (3820 words)

	The American Great Plains
		Plains Indians of the Archaic moved around in small bands in a highly mobile lifeway with relatively few locations being exploited on a regular basis.
		These plains were a vital part of village life along the river, which depended on not only maize and bean agriculture, but on large scale bison hunting as well.
		Thus, the Central Plains Tradition is an offshot of the Plains Woodland Tradition with their own set of unique traits and who are believed to have been later absorbed by cultures of the Mississippian region.
	www.anthroclass.com /lectures/lbanth347/class8.html (2009 words)

	greatamericantrails.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Great American Trails links states, regions, and nations into one harmonious system of nature trails.
		The sites featured on Great American Trails focus on the natural and cultural heritage of a place--no theme parks, IMAX theaters, or zoos with exotic animals.
		Great American Trails is a project of Fermata, the premier nature tourism consulting company in North America.
	www.greatamericantrails.com (370 words)

	Tragedy on the Great Plains - GPRC
		The American Buffalo, vanquished totem of this once-wild continent, is the only native animal utterly refused her inalienable right to be a wild species.
		The Great Plains Restoration Council (GPRC) is dedicated to a practical implementation of a Buffalo Commons.
		The mission of the Great Plains Restoration Council is to restore the ecological health of a significant portion of the North American Great Plains ecosystem, so that all native wildlife and ecological processes exist into perpetuity.
	www.gprc.org /brochure.html (861 words)

	Great Plains: IISD Great Plains Activities
		At the conference, the Great Plains program also presented the results of its North American survey identifying critical issues and stressors.
		The Great Plains program has been instrumental in the development of the Great Plains Institute and the Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council.
		The Great Plains Institute is being established to assist businesses and governments in the U.S. and Canada to come to grips with the issues of the Great Plains sustainability.
	www.iisd.org /agri/gpactivities.htm (531 words)

	GREAT NATIVE AMERICAN LEADERS
		It should come as no surprise that great Native American leaders are for the most part ignored in history classes rooted in the old Columbus myths.
		This site seeks to honor great Native American leaders and patriots and inasmuch as is possible, present them as they were rather than as the institutional powers-that-be consider them to have been.
		The first great Native American leader and patriot to be presented is TATANKA YOTANKA whom the Euro-Americans call Sitting Bull.
	members.tripod.com /%7ERFester/chiefs.html (587 words)

	Study Guide for The Great Plains
		The first text for discussion in "The Great Plains from Texas to Saskatchewan" is The Great Plains, by Walter P. Webb.
		The American scholarly tradition for study of the Great Plains as region begins, and continually touches bases with, Webb's work.
		Webb claimed that The Great Plains was not inspired by the work of Frederick Jackson Turner, but Webb was clearly a Turnerian.
	www.plainsfolk.com /seminar/guide1.htm (781 words)

	Defining Sustainability Concerns and Issues for the North American Great Plains: Challenges and Opportunities
		The second was to provide decision makers and researchers with information about the perceived concerns of the Great Plains (and thus a better understanding of the needs of stakeholders) as they plan their new agendas.
		Agriculture is the major activity on the Great Plains, and effects on agriculture have effects on the region.
		Allen Tyrchniewicz is an associate with the Great Plains Project at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
	www.iisd.org /agri/nebraska/tyrch1.htm (2637 words)

	Great American Plains Links
		The forts that were erected on the plains at first served the fur companies.
		Before the Great Plains were settled many thought the vast area between Missouri and the Rocky Mountains was a desert only to be crossed.
		The plains was a lawless frontier for robbers, murderers, and rustlers.
	www.suite101.com /links.cfm/great_american_plains (1093 words)

	Grassland Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		What We Do Our mission is to advance the creation of protected grassland natural areas and sustainable grassland communities on the Northern Great Plains through research, education and outreach.
		To help us advance this mission, we publish information and reports, sponsor speakers and organize public presentations, engage public officials, educators, and business and community leaders in dialogue and advocacy, and work to build collaborative relationships with individuals, groups and institutions.
		Through our science-based conservation work, we hope one day that the diversity of wildlife that once roamed the grasslands of North American Great Plains will be restored on a system of grassland habitat complexes, created and managed through local public-private partnerships and funded by public and private sources and new entrepreneurial activities.
	www.conservationalliance.org (508 words)

	Great Plains Native American Culture, Heritage & Issues
		Guests were of the opinion that using Native American mascots fosters stereotypes and racism, perpetuates misinformation about culture and ceremonies, and mocks Native American culture in the name of team spirit.
		Summary: The buffalo, or American bison, was once a vital and integral part of the culture of the Plains Indians, and was the centerpiece of a spirituality that honored all living things.
		Summary: Indigenous Great Plains Elders are the rapidly vanishing and irreplaceable keepers of Great Plains oral history and tradition.
	www.und.nodak.edu /dept/library/Collections/native_video.html (3425 words)

	Search results for "great plains" :: American Poems
		LONE on the bleaky hills the straying flocks Shun the fierce storms among the sheltering rocks; Down from the rivulets, red with dashing rains, The gathering floods burst o’er the distant plains; Beneath the blast the leafless forests...
		It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains; from flat places, rolling and remote, it climbs to heaven, which is its old abode.
		The peace of great churches be for you, Where the players of loft pipe organs Practice old lovely fragments, alone.
	www.americanpoems.com /search/great_plains (1348 words)

	American Indian \| Native \| First Nations \| Plains and Southeastern Tribes \| Sioux \| Cheyenne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Plains Indians lived in the huge area between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains.
		The Plains Tribes believed they could speak to the gods and their ancestors during this ceremony.
		Plains Tribes memebers considered a real treat to eat the still-warm heart, liver, kidneys and brain of a freshly killed buffalo.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p1303.htm (603 words)

	FuturePundit: Long Droughts Were Common In American Great Plains Holocene Era
		PORTLAND, ORE. — Events like the great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, immortalized in "The Grapes of Wrath" and remembered as a transforming event for millions of Americans, were regular parts of much-earlier cycles of droughts followed by recoveries in the region, according to new studies by a multi-institutional research team led by Duke University.
		Some of those prehistoric droughts in the northern Great Plains of what is now the United States also lasted longer than modern-day dry spells such as the 1930's Dust Bowl decade, according to sediment core studies by the team.
		Another drought on the Great Plains would wipe out agriculture over a large area and drive lots of people to migrate away from the region.
	www.futurepundit.com /archives/002274.html (897 words)

	Planning for Sustainability: the Case of the North American Great Plains
		This symposium, Planning for a Sustainable Future: The Case of the North American Great Plains, brought together a diverse set of participants to address the complex economic, social, and environmental issues facing this region in the decades ahead.
		The North American Great Plains is a critical environmental zone where the impacts of climate change are likely to be more severe and to materialize more rapidly than in less fragile ecosystems.
		We must recognize also that visioning a future for the North American Great Plains is a long-term process - the goal is to engender a future that is environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable.
	iisd1.iisd.ca /agri/Nebraska (752 words)

	Great Plains Regional Center Director's Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		We are focusing on the two linear forested systems (shelterbelts and riparian corridors) of major economic and ecological importance in the Great Plains and their impact in altering microclimate in intensively managed ecosystems.
		To scale-up the analysis to a larger part of the Great Plains region in order to accommodate the nested regional climate model of Mearns, Giorgi, and Easterling.
		The role of trees in the adaptation of Great Plains Agroecosystems to climatic change: A sensitivity analysis of shelterbelts.
	nigec.ucdavis.edu /publications/ar/annual94/greatplains/project04.html (1921 words)

	Washita
		The American Indians who occupied the region within the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase may have considered the land "public land," but from the opposite perspective - they were the public and it was their land.
		In a lecture delivered in 1844 titled "The Young American," Emerson said America's missions was "to inspire and express the most expansive and humane spirit; new-born, free, healthful, strong, the land of the laborer, of the democrat, of the philanthropist, of the believer, of the saint, she should speak for the human race.
		Because the railroads were snapping up much of the Indian land, in addition to the great grants of land given to aid in their construction, they were becoming the principal proprietors of the West, gaining all the profit which construction of their lines would assure to owners of land in the way of added value.
	www.dickshovel.com /was.html (11129 words)

	American Indian Ways of Life on the Great Plains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Isern's lecture on American Indian life in North America prior to European contact emphasizes the evolution of native cultures in response to the diversity of North American environments.
		"Plains Woodland" refers to arrival of influences from cultures to the east--bow and arrow, pottery, and beginnings of agriculture.
		The results of contact with white cultures, especially in two ways: acquisition of the horse, resulting in classic plains Indian culture, and induction into mercantile economy, resulting in commercial hunting (and the introduction of firearms).
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/isern/103/ways.htm (283 words)

	North American Prairie - Ecoregions - Sierra Club
		The never-ending plains that stunned the heartland's settlers have fared poorly beneath the plow, but in a few promising pockets, the flowers still come back each spring.
		Before the plow and the cow, the tallgrass prairie dominated the humid east and the shortgrass prairie the arid west, with the mixed-grass prairie in between.
		The source of drinking water and irrigation for Plains residents from Nebraska to Texas, the Ogallala Aquifer is one of the world's largest--as well as one of the most rapidly dissipating.
	www.sierraclub.org /ecoregions/prairie.asp (812 words)

	Species of Concern on the North American Great Plains and their Occurrence on National Grasslands
		In the Great Plains of North America, most governments and some private organizations, maintain lists of animal and plant species experiencing declines and threats to their long term survival.
		The mixed and shortgrass prairies in the western Great Plains are among the last remaining large areas of grassland in the Great Plains.
		Great Plains National Grasslands are distributed from tallgrass prairie to shortgrass prairie ecoregions.
	www.fs.fed.us /r2/nebraska/gpng/matrix/tes_manual.html (2704 words)

	Great American Plains
		Some of the first white men on the plains were missionaries who, like all creatures, brought both good and bad to the plains.
		The Great American Plains is and was truly the heart of the American West, so saddle your pony or hitch old Dan to the buckboard and ride along for a grand adventure.
		Great American Plains is new here at Suite 101 so if you are looking for some particular event or historical person and don't see an article on them send me an e-mail at marykion@juno.com with "Great American Plains" in the subject line and let me know what you want.
	www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/13796 (1008 words)

	WWF \| Northern Great Plains \| American Prairie Restoration Project \| American Bison
		The U.S. Mint is reintroducing the American bison nickel into circulation this week; World Wildlife Fund is working on a noteworthy bison reintroduction of its own -- to the Northern Great Plains -- the outcome of which is a matter of even greater national interest.
		And while the new nickel is still worth five cents, the survival of the American bison as a species is invaluable.
		Working with the American Prairie Foundation and in cooperation with state and federal agencies, WWF is reintroducing a genetically pure herd of bison in northeast Montana.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildplaces/ngp/projects/bison_nickel.cfm (326 words)

	Plains Indians
		The Plains Indians lived in the area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to Mexico.
		The plains area was hotter than 100 degrees in the summer, and could drop to 40 degrees below zero with heavy snows in the winter.
		Few Indians lived on the Great Plains before white men brought the horse in the 1600’s.
	www.mce.k12tn.net /indians/reports4/plains.htm (308 words)

	Humans and Climate Change on the Great Plains
		Great Plains Partnership report dealing with how Plains people view the land they live on.
		The Great Plains Partnership is built on the idea that through cooperation rather than conflict, economic and environmental interests can be compatible.
		A report of a project designed to identify regions that are vulnerable to desertification, and characterize past climates that have affected the stability and distribution of surface soils and sediments in the Great Plains region.
	www.usd.edu /anth/epa/teacher.html (1218 words)

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