TIMELINE

NATIVE AMERICANS

• Lived off the land for buffalo and maize.
• They also wanted the land to stay how it was uninterrupted by white settlers.

RANCHERS

• According to the text I read the ranchers wanted to and did sometimes drive Indians out.
• They fenced in grass land.
• Used grass land for pasture for cattle.

HOMESTEADERS

• Lived in sod houses like the one from the museum.
• They filled up e land that the native Americans lived on that they didn't want tore up.
• They tilled up the land for planting crops.

TODAY

• Nearly all plains land developed into sprouting farms and ranches.
• Few preserves remain for native prairie.
• Native Americans now live on reservations, not a lot of them are out doing things in the new world.