What happened in the great plains when severe drought followed the removal of native grasses?

Crops were signifigantly harder to grow and animals could not survive.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.