Kansas Tribes & Explorers

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Across
  1. 6. Long doubled down on Pike's opinion of the Kansas Region by calling it the "________ ________ _______."
  2. 9. President Jefferson assigned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark with navigating the _______.
  3. 10. _______ was tasked with exploring the southwest border of the Louisiana Purchase, mainly to gain insight on Spanish happenings.
  4. 11. _______ were not introduced to the Americas until around 1500 by the Spanish.
  5. 14. _______ was a practice of sedentary tribes that not only produced food, but also provided trade opportunities with the nomadic tribes.
  6. 17. Plains tribes used this organ of the buffalo to hold water and other liquids without leaking.
  7. 18. Plains tribes used this part of the buffalo as a fly-swatter and guiding livestock.
  8. 21. The Kansa, Osage, Wichita and Pawnee were all ______ tribes.
  9. 22. One of the 7 Reasons for Exploration that supports the importance of gaining and receiving resources with other nations.
  10. 23. The _______ was a common nomadic shelter used by plains tribes.
  11. 24. Christopher Columbus was Portuguese, but he lobbied and was granted the support of the King and Queen of Spain for his expedition.
Down
  1. 1. The Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa and Comanche were all _______ tribes.
  2. 2. The _______ was of great importance to plains nomadic and sedentary tribes.
  3. 3. Spanish explorer who came to present-day Kansas looking for Quivira, the "city of gold."
  4. 4. American explorers _______ and _______ (last names) mainly traveled by boat along rivers.
  5. 5. Zebulon Pike described the Kansas region as a desert that couldn't be cultivated, influencing and delaying American settlement in Kansas.
  6. 7. Christopher Columbus landed in Hispaniola in 1492, which is present-day _______.
  7. 8. American explorer who was supposed to explore, map, and find the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers.
  8. 12. Due to Francisco Vazquez de Coronado's failure to find gold, present-day Kansas did not become part of the New Spanish _______.
  9. 13. The first French explorer (last name) sent to present-day Kansas to establish an alliance with the Comanche.
  10. 15. _______ made of grass, mud, and/or timber were common shelters of sedentary tribes.
  11. 16. The second French explorer (last name) sent to present-day Kansas who failed to assert and keep France's hold in the region.
  12. 19. Christopher Columbus crossed the ______ Ocean to get to the New World.
  13. 20. Tribe whose name means "people of the south wind" AND influenced our state name.
  14. 21. Zebulon Pike and his men ended up in Colorado because they were following _______ soldiers.