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  Great Plains - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 the US 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.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Great_Plains   (888 words)

  
 Great Plains Culture Area - Map - MSN Encarta
Great Plains Culture Area - Map - MSN Encarta
The Great Plains culture area encompasses a vast region of predominantly treeless grassland.
When European explorers first reached the Americas in the late 15th century, most Native Americans of the Great Plains were villagers and farmers.
encarta.msn.com /media_461562589_761570777_-1_1/Great_Plains_Culture_Area.html   (89 words)

  
  Great Plains culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Historically, the Great Plains were the range of the bison and of the short-lived Great Plains culture of the Native American tribes of the Blackfeet, Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and others.
The buffalo roamed the western plains of the American mainland for tens of thousands of years numbering in their millions until the coming of white hunters to the Great Plains, and thus were omnipresent in the natives' lives.
The tribes of the Great Plains have been found [1] to be the tallest people in the world during the late 1800s, based on 21st century analysis of data collected by Franz Boas for the World Columbian Exposition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Plains_culture   (557 words)

  
 Great Plains
The Great Plains or High Plains are the elevated plains which lie east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States of America, covering the states of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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.
After the near-extinction of the buffalo and the removal of the Native Americans to reservations[?], the Great Plains were devoted to ranching and were open range, that is, anyone was theoretically free to run cattle.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gr/Great_Plains.html   (552 words)

  
 Native Americans - Culture
The Southeast culture area stretches from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the arid lands beyond the Trinity River in present-day Texas, and from the Gulf of Mexico northward to varying latitudes in the present-day states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.
The Plateau culture area was not as densely populated as the Pacific coastal areas to the west.
The Great Plains culture area stretches west from the Mississippi River Valley to the Rocky Mountains, and south from varying latitudes in present-day Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta to southern Texas.
www.nativeamericans.com /Culture.htm   (2028 words)

  
 Great Plains culture:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Plains Indians are the Indians who lived on the plains and rolling hills of the Great Plains of North America.
The tribes of the Great Plains have been found to be the tallest people in the world during the late 1800s, based on 21st century analysis of data collected by Franz Boas for the World Columbian Exposition.
Wakan were thought to possess great power, and one of their jobs was to heal people, which is why they are also sometimes called the medicine man. They healed by trying to convince a person that they weren’t sick, or they used drugs, like an old-day version of aspirin and skunk-cabbage to cure asthma.
www.winelib.com /wiki/Great_Plains_culture   (1191 words)

  
 Great Plains Culture Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Great Plains Culture Area lies in the area west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains.
The vast grasslands of the Great Plains provided perfect grazing lands for the animal that was central to the existence of the peoples of this region—the bison, also known as the buffalo.
Due to the differences between the semi-nomadic farmers of the prairies and the hunters of the high plains, anthropologists and historians often treat the Great Plains Culture area as two separate areas, plains and prairies, with the dividing line being west of the Lower Mississippi and central Missouri Rivers.
www.scsc.k12.ar.us /2002Outwest/NaturalHistory/Projects/LachowskyR/great_plains_culture_area.htm   (903 words)

  
 Microsoft and Great Plains Blend the Best of Both Worlds with Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions: One year ...
Great Plains, which at the time of the acquisition had 2,000 team members -- the term the company preferred for its employees -- was based in Fargo, N.D. Microsoft was known for delivering software and services to a broad range of customers.
Great Plains had a reputation for developing software for small- to medium-size businesses; its relationship-based culture was a reflection of its mission statement: To improve the lives and business success of partners and customers.
Great Plains partners and customers, Young says, were excited by the acquisition in terms of marketing muscle and technology potential, but fearful that the partner channel would lose its personal touch and become more like a vendor or supplier relationship.
www.microsoft.com /presspass/Features/2002/Apr02/04-24greatplains.mspx   (1684 words)

  
 Great Plains Proposal Narrative 2006
, a land-grant university of the northern plains.
Ritual polling of undergraduate and graduate students confirms Walter P. Webb's original physiographic conception of the region in 1931: the Great Plains are level, treeless, and semiarid, Webb said, and students echo these physiographic attributes, while adding a few of their own based on local experience.
His two great historical metaphors—the dump ground and the pontoon bridge—instruct us first as to why people of the plains hunger so for antiquities and second as to how they might satisfy their hunger.
www.plainsfolk.com /seminar/proposal2006.htm   (3072 words)

  
 TIPIS: North American Native Pre-Contact Housing
These large plains tipis were made of 15 - 50 buffalo hides, a style requiring the horse both to hunt that many buffalo and to drag the tipis on travoises, made of their own poles.
Great Plains Moccasin Factory, which is an aboriginal enterprise, explains the cultural teachings and meanings that this 15-pole tipi diagram indicates.
It is strictly an artifact of the horse-tipi buffalo culture of the great open plains.
www.kstrom.net /isk/maps/houses/tipi.html   (1531 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)

  
 "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.
www.austincc.edu /lpatrick/his1302/webb.html   (2936 words)

  
 DNK Amazon Store :: Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (Galaxy Books)
In "Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s" (Oxford University Press: New York, 1979) Donald Worster contends that the destruction of the southern plains was one of the most terrible ecological disasters in human history.
Geiger was recalling "the image of the plains pushed forth by another Denver man William Gilpin" who in the 1850s thought the continent itself was a "great fertile bowl rimmed by mountains, its concave interior destined to one day be the seat of civilization" (28).
The Future of the Great Plains, commissioned by President Roosevelt, made it clear that "inappropriate institutions and practices brought from humid part of the country" caused the dust bowl.
www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0195032128   (2598 words)

  
 Mr. Robinson's Social Studies Web Page
The horse and the buffalo are central to the nomadic life of the Plains Indians.
The policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservations changed because white settlers began to want land on the plains.
Buffalo hunters, tourists, and fur traders destroy the vary basis of the Great Plains culture--the buffalo.
staffweb.psdschools.org /johnr/notes4.html   (756 words)

  
 EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
The 1795 map represents the Great Plains as a trackless space, a view that stems not only from the mapmaker's lack of knowledge but also, perhaps, from the perception that this part of North America would serve mainly as a pathway to the Pacific.
Lewis and Clark, who opened the Great Plains to American settlement, included many descriptions of the region in their journals, which are accessible in the Archive section of the Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery website.
Ranchers also settled on the Great Plains in the wake of railroad expansion, and their perception of the region can be found in Theodore Roosevelt's Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, an account of his days in the Dakotas.
edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=265   (3820 words)

  
 NPS Publications: The Blackfoot
Although the range of the latter extends beyond the plains, it will be seen that the Plains culture area falls within the geographical limits of the great plains, that is, within the region of the greatest bison herds.
This great dependence upon a single species of animals, then, is the central fact of Blackfoot culture and should be borne in mind in picturing their relationship to other American Natives.
To say that the Blackfoot, like their other neighbors in the plains, were primarily bison hunters, is not to say that they have not many culture traits in common with Indians of other regions.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/berkeley/steward/stewardb.htm   (512 words)

  
 Knife River Indian Villages NHS Northern Plains Tribes page
Taken as a whole, these tribes make up a part of the culture group known as "Plains Tribes." However, though each may share certain cultural similarities they should not be thought of as "one people." The various tribes were each as different as they were similar.
Plains Cree and their close allies, the Plains Chippewa, were often found trading at the Mandan and Hidatsa villages and at the American Fur Company's Fort Union, especially in the company of their other close ally, the Assiniboine.
The Plains Chippewa (also known as the Ojibwa) frequently traveled with their allies, the Plains Cree and Assiniboine, and were thus often found trading at the Mandan and Hidatsa villages and at various American Fur Company trading posts.
www.nps.gov /knri/plains_tribes.htm   (1579 words)

  
 North American Indians - Plains Culture Area
The Great Plains (sometimes called the American prairies) fills the very center of the North American continent, stretching some 1,500 miles north to south (from the north central regions of Texas to the southern prairies of Canada) andmore than 1,000 miles east to west (from the Mississippi-Missouri Valley to the Rocky Mountains).
And while the Plains landscape appears to many to be a vast unbroken treeless anduniform grassland, it is in fact broken by ranges of hills andwooded river valleys, and consists of two subregions, the more humid eastern plains with tall-grass prairies andthe drier western plains or steppe, where short-grass prairies dominate.
Other Plains hunters, such as the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, andDakota were latecomers to the Plains, abandoning their settled agricultural way of life for one of nomadic buffalo hunting and, as was the case on the southern Plains dwellers, raiding the towns of the native peoples of the Southwestern Culture Area.
www.cabrillo.edu /~crsmith/noamer_plains.html   (8246 words)

  
 Crow (people)
Crow (people), Native American tribe of the Siouan language family and of the Plains culture area.
In the middle of the 17th century, Native Americans of the Great Plains began to use horses.
The Cheyenne and the Arapaho probably came into the Great Plains region in the 18th century from North Dakota or Minnesota.
www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/crow.htm   (592 words)

  
 Great Plains Energy Inc. - Investors home page
Great Plains Energy’s Strategic Intent was launched in 2004 and articulates the Company’s mission to demonstrate leadership in supplying and delivering electricity and energy solutions to meet customers’ needs.
Great Plains Energy’s Strategic Intent is grounded in a solid foundation that includes a fleet of regulated power plants that are top-tier in operating performance and total cost, a delivery system that provides industry-leading reliability, and a competitive supply business that is recognized for customer satisfaction and retention.
Great Plains Energy fosters strong relationships with the communities it serves in order to improve the economic and social well being of these communities through carefully targeted financial support and partnerships.
www.greatplainsenergy.com /investor/index.html   (632 words)

  
 The Plains Culture
This culture region is adjacent to the Southwest, Far West and Subarctic cultures.
The Great Plains people were different from their counterparts elsewhere because their lifeways radically changed following encounters with Europeans.
With the encroachment of Europeans onto native lands to the East (as well as periods of drought), many agrarian tribes trekked west to the Plains seeking new farmlands, as well as the bison.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h941.html   (997 words)

  
 GREAT PLAINS
When Americans settled the plains, they thought they could get away with the slash and burn methods they used in the east, the practices of using up all possible resources and discarding the rest; however, unlike the passive east coast, the Great Plains struck back at the attackers.
Their culture is traditionally stoic, reserved, and non-violent with exception to their treatment of the Indians while settling the plains.
The culture of the American Midwest is thick with the rugged characteristics of the Great Plains.
keller.clarke.edu /~english/honors/aaron/sec3.htm   (1565 words)

  
 Latin America Tour Set for Curtis Photos of North America Tribes - US Department of State
The tribes of the Great Plains were the most formidable and powerful in North America, and they inspired Curtis by the majesty of their lives.
The great expanses of land and sky, the horses, the lodges the sacred sun ceremonies -- all are depicted in Curtis's stirring Plains landscape photographs.
Curtis's immersion in the landscape and cultures of the Southwest Indian clearly is evident in the photographs he made in the region.
usinfo.state.gov /wh/Archive/2005/Sep/28-395310.html   (1387 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains.
The Cheyenne nation comprised ten bands, spread all over the Great Plains, from southern Colorado to the Black Hills in South Dakota.
During the 1600 and 1700s, the Cheyenne moved from the Great Lakes region to present day Minnesota and North Dakota and established villages.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Cheyenne   (1732 words)

  
 Great Plains Native American Culture, Heritage & Issues
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.
This film is an authentic insight into the reality of the early Plains Indian culture and life, and their dependence on the buffalo.
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)

  
 Great Plains Native American Culture, Heritage & Issues
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.
This film is an authentic insight into the reality of the early Plains Indian culture and life, and their dependence on the buffalo.
Summary: Indigenous Great Plains Elders are the rapidly vanishing and irreplaceable keepers of Great Plains oral history and tradition.
www.und.edu /dept/library/Collections/native_video.html   (3425 words)

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