White settlers began wanting the land on the plains
Native Americans used buffalo for food and they used their skin for clothing. The bones of buffalo were used for tools and weapons. American settlers wanted only to sell the buffalo hide since they were in great demand.
In two words, barbed-wire fences.
The buffalo were located in the central plains. At one time there were 30 million buffalo on the plains and the Native American tribes living on the plains would hunt them on foot. Originally there were no horses in North America until the Spanish brought them, so they needed to hunt them by setting fire to the grasses and using animal pelts to hide their scent they would sneak up on the herd. The buffalo were basically farmed and when killed every part was used. Nothing was wasted. When the white man came to the plains and built the railroad he slaughtered the buffalo because it was known it was a lifeline for the tribes. Mountains of buffalo were killed just to kill and by the late 1800's there were only 17,000 left from the 30 million.
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The illusive white buffalo
The breeding grounds of the Buffalo was generally in the western plains of the US portion of North America. White hunters did great damage to buffalo herds. Natives used the buffalo as food and clothing. Native hunters were aided with the re-introduction of mustangs.
Depends on who you are what it means. To Native Americans plains tribes a white buffalo was a sacred animal. As it was tribes like the Dakota Sioux used the buffalo for food, clothing, worship, and anything else they could glean from the buffalo.
The Cheyenne became nomadic buffalo hunters after migrating to the Great Plains in the 18th century and figured prominently in the resistance by Plains Indians to white encroachment.
How native americans respond to land lost due to white settlement of the great plains?
The Native Americans of the great plains depended on the buffalo. They ate its meat and made their clothing and homes from its skins. White men's guns killed the buffalo depriving the Native Americans of food, clothing, and shelter. White men's cows ate the grass the buffalo needed. White men's fences prevented the buffalo from changing pastures. Thus, the white men made it impossible for the Native Americans to continue their relationship with the buffalo.
The Plains Indian Tribes were completely dependent on the buffalo as their source of food, shelter, and clothing. When the white men began destroying the buffalo for sport, the Indians were forced to accept government policy and conform to life on the Indian Reservations.
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its not "how do plains Indians live" its "how did plains Indians live"and the answer is they lived on the great plains in tepees(tipis) these were little tent like homes made from buffalo skinsome Indians had always lived there, and some were forced to move on to there when the white settlers came along.that's my answer!! feel free to critisize as i am not always right! but as far as i know what i have said THIS TIME is right not
Cattle and sheep are still raised in large numbers on the Great Plains.
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The Native Americans of the Great Plains relied on the buffalo population for food, shelter, clothing, and fuel. As white settlers moved into the region, they shot and killed buffalo for sport and by 1890 there were fewer than 1000 buffalo left on the plain (65 million in 1800). Without their main source of food many Native Americans suffered