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Native American Advantages

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Being a European settler trying to make for a better life for my family, I would choose to settle on the Great Plains. The Great Plains would be my choice to settle because I could buy a lot of land for little to nothing. Of course there would be difficulties that came with the inexpensive price of land, such as that of the land being extremely dry and flat which isn’t of course the best for farming. As well, we wouldn’t able to get our hands on a decent amount of wood to build our homes out of; therefore our homes were built out of soil that was held together by grass. When it would rain, the dugouts would flood; we had to fill up buckets or water of water and strode around in the mud until the water dried out. More devastation would come

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