1. Aim: How did the Plains Indians adapt to their environment?
Do Now: Why did settlers want to move west?
HW: How did the dependence on hunting buffalo affect the roles of Indian men and women on the plains?

2. For centuries the Great Plains were home to many groups of Native Americans. Some lived in communities as farmers and hunters, but many were nomads who roamed vast distances, following their main source of food– the buffalo.

3. Horses and Buffalo Allowed Indians to become better hunters
Nomadic warriors
Traveled the plains following buffalo herds
Used the Buffalo for everything

6. Fight Removal
As settlers move west they have conflicts with the Native Americans
Want good farmland
Railroad Companies lay tracks across Indian land
U.S. Government sets up reservations (Indian Bureau)
Native Americans fight back

7. Destruction of the Buffalo
Rifles vs. Bow and Arrow
million buffalo
Killed for profit and sport