- Fact 2 - The Great Plains area
covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana,
Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota,
Texas and Wyoming
- Fact 3 - Names of Border States:
Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico and Texas
- Fact 4 - Origin of the name of the
state: Based on Choctaw Indian words for "red man"
- Fact 5 - Features of the area: High
plains in the west with hills and small mountains in the
east; the Arkansas River
Basin, and the Red River Plains are in the south.
- Fact 6 - Many different tribes from the great Indian Nations were
forced to move from their homelands and were granted land in
Oklahoma - see
Trail of Tears
- Fact 7 - The tribes that were
relocated to Oklahoma included the Arapaho, Cayuga, Cherokee,
Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Delaware, Fox, Ioway, Kaw,
Kickapoo, Miami, Otoe, Modoc, Ottawa, Pawnee, Ponca, Potawatomi,
Quapaw, Sauk, Seneca, Shawnee, Wyandotte and Yuchi
- Fact 8 - The original tribes of the
area included the Apache, Arapaho, Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa, Osage
and the Wichita tribes
- Fact 9 - The Apache tribe are
famous for their fierce fighting qualities. Their name comes
from a Zuñi word meaning “enemy.” Eastern Apache were
predominantly hunter gatherers, whilst their Western
counterparts relied more on farming but were driven from their
lands by Comanche. Today Apache live mainly on reservations
covering over 3 million acres in Arizona and New Mexico. They
still retain many tribal customs
- Fact 10 - The Arapaho: Many of the
Arapaho tribes of Colorado moved to the Great Plains. The Great
Plains Indians lived in tepees. The name 'Arapaho' is believed
to be a corruption of the Pawnee word for 'traders.' Since 1878
the Northern Arapaho Nation has lived with the Eastern Shoshone
on the Wind River Reservation.
- Fact 11 - The Caddo Indians are
plains Indians related to Wichita and Pawnee tribes
- Fact 12 - The Comanche are believed
to be one of first tribes to fully incorporate the horse into
their culture and to have introduced the horse to other Plains
peoples. They were well known as fierce warriors
- Fact 13 - The Kiowa were a tribe of
Plains Indians. They were fierce, nomadic warriors. Kiowa
worshipped a stone image, the taimay.
- Fact 14 - The Osage: The culture of
the Osage Indians was marked by the combination of village
agriculture and buffalo hunting. Their language is Siouan
- Fact 15 - The Wichita were a tribe
of hunter fishers who lived in fixed villages notable for their
large, domed-shaped, grass-covered dwellings. Wichita were known
to tattoo their faces and bodies with solid and dotted lines and
circles - their name means "raccoon-eyed people". They moved to
Kansas, where they established a village at site of present-day
Wichita, Kansas
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