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In reply to the discussion: I could see that the white man did not care about each other the way our people did. [View all]scarystuffyo
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for territory just like every other race has done through out history. His quote is Bullshit....................
There were a variety of Native American tribes living on the Great Plains, competing for scarce resources. Inevitably, the various tribes came into conflict with each other
The Lakota gradually migrated south and westward and pushed aside the Omaha tribe in this early migration. At first, they were not mounted, but horses were spreading throughout the Plains from Spanish settlements in the Southwest, and by 1742 the Tetons had acquired ponies and their cultural pattern became more and more that of horse-riding nomads. In the Central Plains the Lakota came into conflict with the Pawnee, a village tribe that held the rich hunting lands of the Republican River Valley until the Lakota entered the region. The Pawnee war parties usually made their trips on foot, unlike other tribes. Because the Lakota were mounted on horses, they had an advantage
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