Kansas Tribes and Explorers

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Across
  1. 5. _______ was tasked with exploring the southwest border of the Louisiana Purchase, mainly to gain insight on Spanish happenings.
  2. 8. Tribe whose name means "people of the south wind" AND influenced our state name.
  3. 9. The _______ was of great importance to plains nomadic and sedentary tribes.
  4. 10. One of the 7 Reasons for Exploration that supports the importance of gaining and receiving resources with other nations.
  5. 11. President Jefferson assigned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark with navigating the _______.
  6. 12. American explorer who was supposed to explore, map, and find the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers.
  7. 16. _______ made of grass, mud, and/or timber were common shelters of sedentary tribes.
  8. 19. Zebulon Pike and his men ended up in Colorado because they were following _______ soldiers.
  9. 20. Zebulon Pike described the Kansas region as a _______ that couldn't be cultivated, influencing and delaying American settlement in Kansas.
  10. 22. River that Zebulon Pike followed during his expedition.
Down
  1. 1. The first French explorer (last name) sent to present-day Kansas to establish an alliance with the Comanche.
  2. 2. The second French explorer (last name) sent to present-day Kansas who failed to assert and keep France's hold in the region.
  3. 3. American explorers _______ and _______ (last names) mainly traveled by boat along rivers.
  4. 4. Long doubled down on Pike's opinion of the Kansas Region by calling it the "________ ________ _______."
  5. 6. The Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa and Comanche were all _______ tribes.
  6. 7. Spanish explorer who came to present-day Kansas looking for Quivira, the "city of gold."
  7. 13. Due to Francisco Vazquez de Coronado's failure to find gold, present-day Kansas did not become part of the New Spanish _______.
  8. 14. The name of the legendary golden cities Coronado hoped to find.
  9. 15. was a practice of sedentary tribes that not only produced food, but also provided trade opportunities with the nomadic tribes.
  10. 17. _______ were not introduced to the Americas until around 1500 by the Spanish.
  11. 18. The Kansa, Osage, Wichita and Pawnee were all ______ tribes.
  12. 21. The _______ was a common nomadic shelter used by plains tribes.