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who were the plains indians? - Coggle Diagram
who were the plains indians?
dangers when moving west:
running out of resources
disease
lack of water
stampedes
conflict with indians
praire fires
snow blizzards
baking heat
extreme weathers
hailstorms
why did the indians loose the plains?
armys and settlers (exterminators, that beleived the only good indian was a dead indian
buffalo destroyed
coundnt feed their tribes
starvation
reservations
forced to live in the settlers reservations, destroyed their culture and way of life
govornment plan
wounded knee, final straw
why did the homesteaders settle in the plains?
homesteaders where ex slaves
moved away from everyone else
away from racism
ex soldiers
nothing to do after the civil war
went becuase of free land
who were the mormons?
joseph smith
beleived in polygamy
practice of polygamy
book of mormon
mormon bible
missouri Danites - The mornom police
kirtland bank collapse, non mormons lost savings from the bank
navoo - Joseph Smith murdered
Brigham Young successes
great leader
exxelent organisation
autarky
got the mormons to salt lake city
perpetual imigration fund
Brigham Young faliurs
mormon war
couldnt improve relations with non-mormons
mountain meadow massacre
tried to cover it up from the world
push and pull factors to move westward:
push
land hungar
ecanomic depression
over-crowding population
mormons - religious persecution
pull
better land for farming in the west
fertile soil
gouvornment propaganda
manifest destiny - "americans had a godgiven duty and right to populate the whole of america
the indian lifestyle:
living in a tipi
buffalo meat
giving back to nature after taking from it
wherever the buffalo goes is where you go
rituals
scalping
counting coup