This is for a Social Studies project of the Oregon Trail
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Snakebite\nRattlesnake bites were often treated just like you see in old westerns: somebody would slice open the bite wound and suck the poison out. This was actually fairly effective if done right away. In one case we have record of, the victim (who was a child, incidentally) was given a shot of whiskey and a tobacco poultice to bandage the wound.
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You could do a presentation about their art. There is quite a bit information and pictures on the site listed below.
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The Oregon Trail was one of the key overland migration routes on which pioneers traveled across the North American continent in wagons in order to settle new parts of the United States of America during the 19th century. The Oregon Trail helped the United States implement its cultural goal of Manifest Destiny, that is to build a great nation spanning the North American continent. The Oregon Trail spanned over half the continent as the wagon trail proceeded 2,170 miles (3,500 kilometers) west through territories and land later to become six U.S. states (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon). Between 1841 and 1869, the Oregon Trail was used by settlers to the Northwest and West Coast areas of what is now the United States. Once the first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, this trail was no longer used by long-distance travelers.\nHistory\nThe first land route across the continent that was well-mapped was that taken by Lewis and Clark from (1804 to 1805). They believed they had found a practical route to the west coast. However, the pass through the Rocky Mountains they took, Lolo Pass, turned out to be too difficult for wagons to pass. In 1810, John Jacob Astor outfitted an expedition to find an overland supply route for establishing a fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River. The expedition was a failure, but on the way back, the party discovered a wide, low pass through the Rockies: South Pass.\n\nWestward expansion did not begin immediately, however. Reports from expeditions in 1806 by Lt. Zebulon Pike and in 1819 by Maj. Steven Long described the Great Plains as "unfit for human habitation" and "The Great American Desert". These descriptions ignored the fact that the land could be fertile if irrigated with ground water (the Great Plains are a major farming area today). Regardless, the images they conjured up of a wasteland of sand and cactus discouraged migration for some time.\n\nThe route of the Oregon Trail began to be scouted out as early as 1823 by fur traders and explorers. The trail began to be regularly used by fur traders, missionaries, and military expeditions during the 1830s. At the same time, small groups of individuals and the occasional family attempted to follow the trail and some succeeded in arriving at Fort Vancouver in Washington. On May 16, 1842 the first organized wagon train on the Oregon Trail set out from Elm Grove, Missouri, with more than 100 pioneers. (Members of the party later disagreed over the size of the party, one stating 160 adults and children were in the party, while another counted only 105.) Despite company policy to discourage U.S. emigration, John McLoughlin, Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, offered the American settlers food and farming equipment on credit, being unwilling to watch able-bodied people starve. The following year, an estimated 800 immigrants arrived in the Willamette Valley. Hundreds of thousands more would follow, especially after gold was discovered in California in 1849. The trail was still in use during the Civil War, but traffic declined after 1869 when the transcontinental railroad was completed. The trail continued to be used into the 1890s and modern highways eventually paralleled large portions of the trail.\n\nOther migration paths for early settlers prior to the establishment of the transcontinental railroads involved taking passage on a ship rounding the Cape Horn of South America or to the Isthmus (now Panama) between North and South America. There, an arduous mule trek through hazardous swamps and rain forests awaited the traveler. A ship was typically then taken to San Francisco, California.\n\nRemnants of the trail in Idaho, Kansas, Oregon, and Wyoming have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.\n\nRoutes\nWhile the first few parties organized and departed from Elm Grove, the Oregon Trail's generally designated starting point was Independence or
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I don't know about the game, but on the real Oregon Trail if you did not bury your dead the Native Americans would desecrate the bodies. Often the settlers would actually bury their dead on the trail itself and then run over the spot with the wagons, animals and walkers just so that they would remain undesturbed. It probably actually helped both peoples as handling the bodies of the sick would have made the spread of disease even worse to the native population.\n\nI suspect in the game that if you don't bury the dead you can expect and Indian attack very soon....
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Man,I'm studying that now and I have the maps on my book.Pity I can't send it to you.....Try Yahoo images.
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I found these sites on the Osage Indians. I hope they help you with your project.\n\nhttp://www.uark.edu/depts/contact/osage.html\n\nhttp://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/northamerica/osage.html\n\nhttp://www.nps.gov/fosc/osage.htm\n\nhttp://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/Osate.htm\n\nhttp://www.osageindians.com/\n\nhttp://www.missouri-history.itgo.com/osage.html\n\nhttp://www.historicfortosage.com/osage.html\n\nhttp://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000146.shtml
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Whatever town you live in, get in contact with your town's historian, they should be able to help you. Good luck!
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There were wild Indians, scavenger animals, swollen rivers, diseases, hungerness, steep hills, bumpy trails, and broken wagon parts... There were many dangers on the "California Trail" I think you mean Oregon Trail, right!?!?
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http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/mystery.html
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This sounds like a fun project!  This might help a little, it has a list of all the past presidents and their parties\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194030.html\nGood luck!
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Try this link\n\nhttp://www.coloradohistory.com/cametobe.asp
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here are a few links for you to look at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark
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"Old Kinderhook"\n\n... but read the whole story on the website.  It's pretty interesting.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_clark
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http://www.redhatsociety.com/searchList.lasso?chapterCity=Beaverton&chapterState=Oregon&chapterCountry=United%20States\n\nhope it helps
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These links should do it for you.  Good luck with your project.
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http://www.schoolnet.ca/ABORIGINAL/Plains_Cree/part24-e.html