Cross Timbers

Minnesota offered a healthy, varied diet to the Sioux because of its abundant resources. Once the Sioux settled into the plans and became gathers and hunters, but they were once primarily farmers. In the Beginning of spring the Sioux rise from their winter village, and the men and women go their separate ways. Maple tree groves provides sweet maple

This is the history of a beautiful region that takes place back in 1850’s when the Sioux and Winnebago tribes lived in these lands. These tribes spread around the Midwest mostly for their food, which include buffaloes (wild Bison), deer, antelope, and wild turkey and hens, wild fruits cherries, berries, and plums and wild vegetables potatoes, spinach, and prairie turnips. These tribes lived in peace and harmony until Joseph Hewitt and James Dickirson arrived in the area in 1851. Joseph Hewitt and James Dickirson settlement soon became an amicable town. Hewitt traded goods with the indian tribes and Dickirson had rich soil for farming.

People move to places where they know is strong and independent, with strong and leading rulers. In 1806, Thomas Jefferson wanted to expand west to have more land and more people move there and start farming and making new products, etc… when Thomas Jefferson wanted a land, but some people were living there, so he said that Americans would move there, and as for the original residents, they will be independent, and uncivilized (Document 2). Later in 1829, Indian Removal Act happened, Andrew Jackson wanted the land so he offered to the Indians who lived there at the time, to take their land, and give them another piece of land where they can all move and live there, because he wanted to take the more fertile and better land (Documents 5). This

In Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory, Bonnie Lynn-Sherow gives an in-depth agricultural and racial account of the Oklahoma Territory settlement focusing on African Americans, white settlers, and Native Americans after the land rush. Throughout the book, Lynn-Sherow depicts the Oklahoma Territory from the first Oklahoma land rush in 1889 to the year before it became a state, 1906. Lynn-Sherow puts emphasis on three specific counties in Oklahoma Territory that are identified with each of the three groups of people previously mentioned. The counties include Logan County, Blaine County, and Caddo County. The sources used throughout Red Earth, which include oral accounts, aid in her explanation by explaining how different life

Detail below reasons why people long ago would settle near each of the following areas

            Western, Sam. Pushed Off the Mountain, Sold Down the River: Wyoming’s Search for Its Soul.

The Plateau Indians lived on the east side of the mountains while the Coastal Indians lived on the west side. I think that the coastal Indians had it easier as they had more resources. Even though the Plateau Indians had horses, they Coastal Indians had plenty of resources due to the marine climate.

Pioneer life in Kansas was tough. In fact, many didn’t make it and those that did survived

Present day Oklahoma was once Indian Territory. It became Indian Territory after the Civil War (Fugate, 136). The Unassigned Lands were in the middle of Indian Territory, but it was not claimed by one of the tribes (Hoig). However, this land was surrounded on all sides by land claimed by a tribe such as the Cherokee. The first to notice the land was prime were the cattlemen who herded their cattle through the area (Fugate,137). The word got around that the land was so great and the “Boomers” were created.

Sitton and Utley’s book is a compilation of interviews from small landowners in Texas, whose existence was a combination of subsistence farming and production of

In the 1870’s, the Unassigned Lands in the part of the Oklahoma Territory that would become Norman, Oklahoma was a sight to behold. Just north of the North Canadian River, which is the main tributary of the Canadian River, which in turn is the largest tributary of the Arkansas River, Abner Ernest Norman led his federal surveying crew to what would develop into the town bearing his namesake. “Norman, a 23-year-old surveyor from Kentucky, was hired to oversee part of this project. Norman’s work crew set up camp near what is today the corner of Classen and Lindsey streets; it was there that the men, perhaps jokingly, carved a sign on an elm tree that read “Norman’s Camp,” in honor of their young boss.” (Mills)

Describe the changes that took place on the Great Plains before and after the Civil War. Do this by filling in the chart provided by using the text and the internet. Make sure that all answers are complete. The first section has been done for you.

Who We Are In Samuel Westerns book, Pushed off the Mountain, Sold Down the River: Wyoming’s Search for Its Soul, he argues that we represent agriculture as the “heart” of Wyoming and as being the “Cowboy State”, which he continues to say is far from the truth. Western also argues that we see wealth in natural resources and rely too heavily on them as a source of economic growth. I disagree with Western’s claims however; agriculture and natural resources are a large part of who we are in Wyoming, and have always been. Western hunts for answers to questions like why Wyoming remains our least populous state, why populations are rapidly growing elsewhere due to young graduates leaving to look for work elsewhere, and why we appear to rely on agriculture and natural resources as our economic income.

Many people were forced to migrate away from their homes, a great deal of farmland became unusable and the government put in regulations to attempt to slow down the loss of soil and preserve farmland much like the government is doing today with regulations on carbon emissions. In the next twenty years we may be forced to move away from the coast as waters rise or storms increase just like many people were forced out of the midwest because of the dust storms and loss of topsoil. We do however have the advantage of knowing that the change is coming this time unlike during the dustbowl, the question is whether we will take advantage of that

The northwest has been under sand dunes since 1950 and has been mostly abandoned. The sand dunes keep growing larger and covering the crop land. The farmers are having to drill wells to expand their harvests and water tables in the North China Plain are the water sources for most of the country's wheat and corn.