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The Native Americans 
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                           The Plains Indians 

The plains indians lived in the great plains of the United States

Plains Indians are usually divided into two  classifications. The first group became fully nomadic and dependent upon the horse during the 18th and 19th centuries, following the vast herds of buffalo, although some tribes occasionally engaged in agriculture, growing tobacco and corn primarily. These include the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda (Stoney), and Tonkawa.

The second group of Plains Indians includes the aboriginal peoples of the Great Plains, as well as the Prairie Indians who come from as far east as the Mississippi River. These tribes were semi-sedentary, and, in addition to hunting buffalo, they lived in villages, raised crops, and actively traded with other tribes. These include the Arikara, Hidatsa, Iowa, Kaw (or Kansa), Kitsai, Mandan, Missouria, Omaha, Osage, Otoe, Pawnee, Ponca, Quapaw, Wichita, and the Santee Dakota, Yanktonai and Yankton Dakota.

The most important tribes were the Sioux and Comanche:

the Sioux:

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 The War Between The United States And The Sioux

The war with the Dakota in 1862 (also called the "Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 " ) was the first big clash between the United States and the Sioux . After six weeks of battles in the ancestral territory of Minnesota, conducted for the most part by the brave and cunning war chief Little Crow , he recorded more than 500 deaths of U.S. soldiers and settlers .

The consistency of the losses in the great Sioux uprising was not documented , but after the war well 303 Indians were charged with murder and robbery by a U.S. court and sentenced to death by hanging. Many of these sentences were commuted to prison , but December 26, 1862 in Mankato , a small town in Minnesota , he went to do that to this day remains the largest mass execution in U.S. history , with the hanging of 38 Sioux warriors .

An event which happened on was the Sand Creek Massacre (also called Chivington massacre or the Battle of Sand Creek) during the Indian Wars in the United States of America, when some troops of the militia of Colorado, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, killing women and children.

In 1875, the last real Sioux war broke out when the gold rush in the Dakota came to the Black Hills, sacred territory to those Indians . 

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