Native Americans

    Many Tribes existed throughout the United States, However most revolutionary tribal groups have lived within the Great Plains! Looking into the family aspect, young men were trained into becoming warriors and hunters. While women were at home working on the items the men would bring back. Some of the work they would do is butcher the animals and prepare the hides.

    Buffalo was their main source for resources, it set an abundance for the Natives other than just Food. They were crafty and used mostly every bit of the buffalo that would benefit their needs, they would use hides for their tepee's, the skin for articles of clothing or blankets and bones for tools or toys. When they were introduced to horses in 1598 the Native Americans way of life now had major efficiency in terms of traveling, hunting and fighting. 

    The Lakota tribe has had to endured and suffer the false words and broken treaties for a generation. In 1868 Gold had been found in their land, white settlers began to avert their attention towards attempting to obtain it. The 'Ghost dance' began to surface within the Lakota/Sioux tribe, where they aide for the Utopian future that disaster destroys the United States, rids the white colonists and resurrects everything they have lost including their lost ones. The whites became freighted hearing of this dance and have then banned it. 

    Police attempted to take Sitting Bull into custody where he was then killed, so they attempted to take his half-brother Chief Spotted Elk, as he fled along with a few Lakota's. When the U.S cavalry had reached him and his group, they saw a medicine man dancing the Ghost Dance and began seizing their weapons. During this, a Lakota and an American wrestled for a gun and a shot fired. Resulting in the American forces firing at the Lakota's. Due to this 150 Lakota's died, as 2/3rd's of them were women and children while there were 25 soldiers down.

Battle at Wounded Knee

Sitting Bull

    Sitting Bull joined his first war party at just 14 years old and has then been recognized immensely over time including becoming the Chief of the Lakota Nation. As mentioned in page 4, Gold had been discovered in their land and Sitting Bull had won battles against white colonists attempting to obtain such gold. However he was not always seen as this strong figure, in childhood days he was seen with no warfare talent. He was deemed slow for the lack of skills, however when he was 10 and had killed his first Buffalo his strength began to grow from there. Afterwards he began to be seen for his skills as a warrior and his earned respect from the people has led him to his title as Chief of the Lakota Nation. His recognition grew further from the battles he conquered and led such as the Little Bighorn and his known rejection of any attempt to change the ways of his culture.

Lifestyle of American Settlers/ American Cowboys and Vaqueros

    As the business of Cattle began to rise, American settlers knowledge of doing the tedious animal task into handling them. So they learned through their Mexican neighbors of such things like rounding up their animals and caring for them. Vaqueros were the Spanish ranchers in Mexico, and the now known American Cowboys were born from Vaqueros. They have striking similarities from Clothes to even what they eat. They both would wear spurs -An item worn on the feet in order to control the horse they would ride- and leather overalls known as 'Chaps'. They would eat Jerky and along with many Spanish words eventually came with English terms to match such as "Mestenos" to "Mustangs" and "Mexico ranch" to "American Ranch."

Problems and abuses with the Railroads 

    As the Railroads had barely any competition, It was easily used to abuse others and along with its function. Farmers had to pay extremely high prices in order to transport grain resulting in the decrease of prices with crops. Railroads had made secret agreements with middlemen, grain brokers and merchants in order to allow railroads to be in control of the storage prices of grain. Farmers began to find themselves in debt constantly despite constant desperate attempts. Some had to mortgage their farms or crops to buy seeds and supplies. Evens suppliers would heighten their prices, resulting in the Farmer to always be in debt and never seeming to stray away from it.