Question

How did Native Americans and homesteaders use land on the Great Plains

Answer 1

The Native Americans built homes
The Homesteaders built homes

The Native Americans shared their land
The homesteaders fenced in their land and took as much land as they could grab.

The Native Americans prayed to a god
The Homesteaders prayed to a god that hated Native Americans and was okay with killing Native Americans.

The Native Americans were murdered, raped, mutilated, robbed, beaten, segregated...
The Homesteaders adopted the orphaned Native American children and washed them in bleach.

The Native Americans used the land sparingly so that the buffalo would come back each year to graze in the same fields.
The homesteaders burnt all the trees down and shot all the buffalo.

The Native Americans would use the parts of the plants that they only would use and let the rest grow so they could have more on another day.
The homesteaders plowed everything under and eventually created Black Sunday (1935.)

The Native Americans lived in a thriving community where people shared in the responsibility of raising children, hunting, gathering, creating...
The homesteaders raised their own children who doubled as indentured servants all supporting the white male of the homesteading unit.