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With the changes of dynasty historically, many people escaped the war and crossed the Central Plains, the increasing integration of the two communities.
The wholescale clearance of woodland to create agricultural land can be seen in many parts of the world, such as the Central forest-grasslands transition and other areas of the Great Plains of the United States.
It is especially important, and frequently depicted, in the art, songs and oral histories of many Pacific Northwest Coast cultures, and is found in various forms among the peoples of the American Southwest, Great Lakes, and Great Plains.
Union Pacific responded by increasing security and hiring marksmen to kill American Bison, which were both a physical threat to trains and the primary food source for many of the Plains Indians.
African Plains represents many regions and habitats.
There are many ghost towns, or semi-ghost towns ( some of them unincorporated communities ), in the American Great Plains, the rural areas of which have lost a third of their population since 1920.
The flooding of thousands of acres for reservoirs created considerable dislocations in many towns north of White Plains.
New businesses appeared in response to expanded markets ; White Plains, with branches of many New York City stores, became the County's central shopping center.
In addition to healing, medicine served many other purposes, for example among the Cheyenne, one of Plains Indians that lived in the Great Plains of North America, medicine such as war paint, war shields, war shirts, and war bonnets, such as the famous war bonnet of Roman Nose, served to protect a warrior from wounding during battle.
The images of sandy wastelands conjured up by terms like " desert " were tempered by the many reports of vast herds of millions of Plains Bison that somehow managed to live in this " desert ".
", a reference to the prominent mountain at the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains that guided many early prospectors to the region westward over the Great Plains.
Some geographers include some territory of Mexico in the Plains, but many stop at the Rio Grande.
* Mistahi-maskwa ( recorded as Mistihui ' muskwa or as Mistahimusqua ; better known as Big Bear in English and as Gros Ours in French ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born about 1825, son of the Ojibwa-Chief Mukitou (‘ Black Powder ’), mastered his native language, the Cree language, as well as Ojibwe language, led the last resistance to the dispersal of the Cree on many reservations and asked for a big total reserve, a revolt of the young warriors under the leadership of one of his sons in 1885 destroyed these plans, died 17 January 1888 on the Poundmaker reservation in North Battleford in Saskatchewan.
* Papewes ( Papaway-‘ Lucky Man ’, Chief of the Plains River Cree ( Sīpīwininiwak-paskwāwiyiniwak ), born in the late 1830s near Fort Pitt, was in the 1870s a leader of Mistahimaskwa ´ s Plains River Cree, as the bison disappeared, signed along with Little Pine on the 2nd July 1879 for the 470 members of his tribal group an annex to the Agreement No. 6 at Fort Walsh, in vain he asked for a reserve in the Cypress Hills and the Buffalo Lake, so many members went back to Mistahimaskwa (" Big Bear ") or joined Minahikosis (" Little Pine "), Papewes asked 1884 in vain a reserve adjacent to the reserves of Pitikwahanapiwiyin (' Poundmaker '), Minahikosis and Mistahimaskwa, during the rebellion of 1885 were the two groups of Papewes and Minahikosis scattered and some of their members fled in the U. S., 1886 settled the remaining members of the two groups in the Little Pine's reserve died 1901 nahe Fort Assiniboine, Montana )
On the Great Plains the Cree or Nēhilawē ( who spoke a closely related Central Algonquian language, the plains Cree language ) depended on the vast herds of bison to supply food and many of their other needs.
Current trends in ethno-tourism have led many former Plains aborigines to continue to seek cultural revival.
The " displacement scenario " is more likely rooted in the older customs of many Plains groups to withdraw into the foothills during headhunting season or when threatened by a neighboring village as observed by the Dutch during their punitive campaign of Mattou in 1636 when the bulk of the village retreated to Tevoraan (; ; ).
By the late 1980s many Hoklo and Hakka speaking people began identifying themselves as Plains aborigines, though any initial shift in ethnic consciousness from Hakka or Hoklo people was minor.
Though the identity of the Šahíya is not known, many Great Plains tribes assume it means Cree or some other people who spoke an Algonquian language related to Cree and Cheyenne.
By 1840 many plains tribes had made peace with each other and developed Plains Indian Sign Language as a means of communicate with their allies.
* 1934: Just one of many notable storms in the 1930s, the storm of 9 – 11 May 1934 began in the far north-western Great Plains and proceeded east over the northern tier of states and parts of Canada and was notable for removing the vast majority of the soil deposited since the last Ice Age over some parts of its path.
They are made by many tribes, but came to be especially associated with Plains tribes, including the Lakota.

Plains and areas
Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.
The terms are used in the United States and Canada to describe the flight of people from rural areas in the Great Plains and Midwest regions, and to a lesser extent rural areas of the northeast and southeast.
During the Dust Bowl and Great Depression of the 1930s, large numbers of people fled rural areas of the Plains and Midwest because of depressed commodity prices, high debt load, and several years of drought and large dust storms.
Tornadoes in the Great Plains can turn red because of the reddish tint of the soil, and tornadoes in mountainous areas can travel over snow-covered ground, turning white.
The future of food production in such areas as the North China Plain, the Punjab, and the Great Plains of the US is threatened.
In January, less dense areas have a low of 16-18 and a high of 30-34 while dense areas like Yonkers and White Plains have a low of 20-25 and a high of 35-40.
It covers much of the higher areas of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria, including Victoria's highest point, Mount Bogong and the associated subalpine woodland and grassland of the Bogong High Plains.
Mount Hotham and Falls Creek are ski resorts adjacent to the national park from where back-country skiers journey into the park to areas such as the Bogong High Plains and Mount Bogong.
While the coastal areas are primarily in the Hudson Plains, the northeastern coast bordering Quebec is in the Taiga Shield ecozone.
Dedicated Cross Country ski resorts are located at Lake Mountain, Mount Stirling and Mount St Gwinear in Victoria and popular areas for back country skiing and ski touring in the Alpine National Park, Yarra Ranges National Park and the Baw Baw National Park include: Mount Bogong, Mount Feathertop, Bogong High Plains, Mount Howitt, Mount Reynard and Snowy Plains.
The trail, which generally follows the course of the Hocking River, provides access to the East State Street commercial areas, Ohio University's campus ( at South Green and Peden Stadium ), The Plains, and Hocking College.
The landscape of the county is typical of the Great Plains with flat topography and gently rolling hills, while the areas in the north are marked by the Wichita Mountains.
There are also many large shopping areas along Central Park Avenue ( NY 100 ), informally called " Central Ave " by area residents, a name it takes officially a few miles north in White Plains, New York.
Researchers William P. O ' Hare and Kenneth M. Johnson described the county as typical of the northern Great Plains in being very thinly settled, almost fully dependent on agriculture, and lacking in urban areas.
It was designed for the stormy areas of the world: temperate oceanic islands, and the Great Plains of North America, South America and Eurasia.
Paleoindian cultures was the earliest one, occupied North America, with some restricted to the Great Plains and Great Lakes of the modern United States and Canada, as well as adjacent areas to the west and southwest from about 12, 000 BC to around 8, 000 BC.
* South Dakota Highway 44 is a state highway that links the interior of the Black Hills to the southwest of Rapid City, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and nearby areas in the Great Plains to the southeast.
Much of Weaver's support came from the Great Plains and rural West, areas where the Farmers ' Alliance was strong.
The upper Great Plains in the United States and southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan have large areas populated primarily of descendants of Germans from Russia.

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