Plains Indians: the Ojibwe

Plains Indians: The Ojibwe

Research Paper

American Frontier

Olivia King

Intro

The Plain’s Indians lived in the Great Plains. The Great Plains is located west of the Missouri River and east of the Rocky Mountains. This area is mainly flat lands good for farming. The Indians of the Great Plains were often considered some of the best warriors because of their skills when it came to fighting (Griffin-Pierce 67). One particular tribe that is considered a part of the Plain’s Indians is the Ojibwe tribe. The Ojibwe tribe is better known as the Chippewa to the U.S. Government. As the largest tribe north of Mexico, they were one of the many tribes that shaped today’s land and Indian culture (Todd 5).

The Great Plains

The Plains Indians were brought to the area of the Great Plains for a few different reasons. One of the reasons they migrated to this area is because of drought in their former homelands. Another reason they came to the Great Plains is the pressure they were facing with a growing population. These Indians needed more land space and the Great Plains offered great, flat land that enabled them to farm and herd easily. One last reason that they moved to this area is because they were forced out of their homes by whites. The white settlers tended to claim any land they found even if there were already Indian settlers there. The Plain’s Indians were forced to move westward into the Great Plains (Griffin-Pierce 66).

Indians in this area were very fortunate for the land they settled on. The Great Plains offered the Mississippi Valley which was a prosperous land for farming. The prairies in this area did not offer promising rain for crops which would have made farming difficult had there not been rivers. The river bottoms were soft so the Plains Indians could easily plant their crops in these areas. The bottoms provided moist soil for crops and also allowed the Indians to easily dig (Griffin Pierce 67).

The Ojibwe History

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