The Blackfoot people settled down in the area throughout North America called the "Great Plains". This region is approximately 500mi East - West and 2,000mi North - South. These plains used to be home to the American Bison which flourished for the Blackfoot people until they were hunted to near extinction during the mid to late 19th century by the US Army as a dual strategy of allowing ranchers to range cattle free of interruption from the Bison but mainly to weaken the Native American population by removing their main food source and pressure them onto the reservations.
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Wikipedia
Being such a large region the Great Plains is home to many different land styles such as:
- The Glaciated Missouri Plateau throughout eastern South Dakota and north-east North Dakota
- The Black Hills in western South Dakota
- The High Plains throughout south-east Wyoming, south-west South Dakota, west Nebraska, east Colorado, west Kansas, west Oklahoma, east New Mexico, and north-west Texas
- The Plains Border in central Kansas and north Oklahoma which includes the Flint, Red, and Smoky Hills
and many other physiographic subdivisions. Along with the many different lands in the Great Plains', there is also a wide variety of weather. There are very frigid winters as well as blistering and humid summers. Wind speeds often get unusually high and dust storms happen nearly every year.
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Wikipedia
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_plains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting#19th_century_bison_hunts
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