Tribal Groups of The Great Plains: Their Way of Life

Long ago, there were multiple indigenous tribes that lived among North America, specifically in the middle-to-northern regions where the plains were located, even up to Canada. Their lifestyle was of nomadic aspect, always traveling to find food and goods. Men did the fighting and hunting as taught, while women helped butcher what they caught and prepare the hides of the animals. Their main staple of all was buffalo, and besides being used for food, the tribes used buffalo for clothing and weaponry too.

Massacre At Wounded Knee

The Massacre At Wounded Knee begins when the land of the indigenous tribes, specifically the Lakota, had been disturbed by white settlers rushing in due to the findings of gold. In response, a movement called the Ghost Dance was made as a belief that white colonists would disappear from the indigenous lands. Fearing an armed uprising, the colonists would gather military to fight against the Lakota, and the massacre was a result of the death of the tribe's famous leader, Sitting Bull, and the rebellion following it. About 150 Lakota tribe members were reported to have passed.

Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull, aforementioned on the previous page, is a memorable leader among the Native American tribes, specifically for the Hunkpapa Lakota. At first, Sitting Bull was not held with high expectations when he was young, yet he was quick to learn. At age ten, he killed his first buffalo, and at age fourteen, he joined his first war party, before becoming a leader years later for his remarkable skills. In the Battle of Custer's Last Stand, he led the Sioux tribe alongside the Cheyenne into victory, before his passing arrived in 1890, which led up to the Massacre at Wounded Knee.

American Cowboys VS Vaqueros: Their Ways Of Life

Vaqueros first start this timeline around 1519, deriving of indigenous Mesoamerican men that were trained by Spainards to be skilled at herding cattle, before Americanized cowboys were born. It is exactly as their origins and names suggest that the vaqueros' work involved the taxing work of using lassos to hunt and pull in the cattle they go after. Cowboys were invented after the vaqueros, though more romanticized, yet they learned the same type of skills after the vaqueros. 

The New Industrial Age: Development of Railroad Abuse

As the years pass on, the Industrial Age soon begins to develop, which also invites the production of new technology; transportation, banks, utilities, factories, etc. The development of railroads was one of the biggest inventions among this list, and yet despite this large production, companies will abuse the system of railroads. This involved putting farmers in debt and the changing of prices just to grab more cash, which eventually led to that of the Granger Laws and Munn V. Illinois, which is a result of farmers retaliating against these railroad abuses.