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International Institute for Sustainable Development: On the Great Plains
Information on the Great Plains of North America. Click on the 11 Key Issues for Great Plains Sustainability for information on important aspects that must be addressed in order to keep the Great Plains viable.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Challenges of the Great Plains Farmer
Young scholars will work in groups of four to create presentations using their research on a particular farming invention that was created from (1837-1867) and also research specific elements about life on the Great Plains. Each group's...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 4: Inventions and the Great Plains
Read and study the sources about inventions from the late 1800s. As you read the three sources, think about the effects that the inventions had on the American economy.
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Great Plains Nature Center
Click around in this site from the Great Plains Nature Center for some wonderful pictures and information about the Great Plains. Check the Flora and Fauna section for easy-to-read content on such animals as the bison, fox, squirrel; and...
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska: Great Plains Rat Snake
The nonpoisonous Great Plains Rat Snake is sometimes called the Corn Snake. The University of Nebraska presents more information including a brief description and photo.
The History Cat
The History Cat: War on the Great Plains: The Last Indian Wars
Learn how the 30-year Indian Wars started and about the battles that were fought over those years. Describes the emergence and growth of the Ghost Dance movement that was initially envisioned by a Paiute medicine man named Wovoka. White...
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Great Plains Nature Center: Osage Orange
The Great Plains Nature Center provides an informational page on the Osage Orange tree. Also, they provide answers to following questions about the Osage Orange: are they edible?; how do you grow them?; do they repel insects?
University of Nebraska
Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial
"Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of Lincoln, Nebraskaexplores the development of towns and cities on the Great Plains through the lens of a murder case in the 1890s that evolved into a...
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History; Crossing the Plains, 1865
Article offers the diaries of Sarah Raymond as she treks across the Great Plains. Describes the many hardships encountered on this long journey.
PBS
Pbs: New Perspectives on the West
This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....
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Great Plains Nature Center: Flora and Fauna
A description of the animals and plants of the Great Plains. It also includes a map showing the extent of the plains.
US Geological Survey
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
The Great Plains organization provides individuals, organizations, and governments with key information about the Great Plains environment through a resource pool of publications, reports, and government data.
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska Lincoln: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains: Kate Barnard
Learn about the life and humanitarian political work of Oklahoma politician and educator Kate Barnard.
PBS
Pbs: The Dust Bowl
You are about to embark on an experience that will show you what life was like on the southern Great Plains during the Dust Bowl. On your journey, you will learn about the changing market and weather conditions and be asked to make...
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Trans Mississippi and International Exposition: The Arapaho Tribe
Provides general information on the Arapaho tribe, the buffalo hunters of the Great Plains.
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An Introduction to North America's Native People: Plains Culture Area
A wonderful website from Cabrillo College on the Plains Indians can be found here. It gives an in-depth historical overview, profiles of numerous Plains tribes, the significance of the horse, and great information on their culture and...
Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: The Old West
This resource provides first-hand accounts and background information on the Old West. Content touches on crossing the plains, cowboys, train robberies, Dalton Gang's Last Raid, Custer's Last Stand, the Death of Billy the Kid, and much...
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Montana State University: Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains
"The Native Peoples of Northern Great Plains Digital Images Database includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's."
Nebraska Studies
Nebraska Studies: Tribes in Nebraska Give Up Lands in Treaties
Review this discourse of the many treaties enacted between the settlers and Native Americans during the development of the Great Plains, the problems that arose, and the creation of reservations.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age
The resources here, including letters, photographs, official documents, and maps, represent the exodus of African Americans from the South to the Great Plains in the late 1800s.
University of Virginia
America in the 1930s: The Plow That Broke the Plains
Read about iconic film The Plow that Broke the Plains regarding the Dust Bowl that ravaged the Great Plains and brought hardship to thousands of families.
Library of Congress
Loc: Summer on the Lakes E Text
Here is a short biography and a analysis of "Summer on the Lakes" by Margaret Fuller. It also contains links to the online text for this essay describing her trip to the Great Lakes in 1843. Text can be viewed on a page-by-page basis in...
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Ethnological Museum: Native Americans of the Plains
Part of a larger exhibition about Native Americans, this page gives visitors an up-close look at the Hidatsa and the Mandan, Native Americans of the Plains. Viewable are a decorated a buffalo skin and color etchings of tribal chiefs...
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska Lincoln: Center for Great Plains Studies: Angie Debo
Learn about the life and writing of Oklahoma-born historian Angie Debo, who wrote about Native American history.
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