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Tristian Silva Chapter 16 ? The American West Describe the Great Plains Vast dry country uninviting to farmers accustomed to woodlands and ample rainfall. ?a land of starvation,? ?a treeless desert? with a ?terrible? climate of baking heat in the daytime and ?chill and piercing? cold at night. List five facts about the Sioux Occupied semi permanent settlements in the lake country of northern Minnesota and moved westward during the early 18th century Became nomadic as they crossed the Missouri River into the Great Plains and lived in portable skin tepees and relying on the hunt for survival Acquired horses from tribes in the south and west became hunters and formidable fighters
