Plain Native Americans

1. PlainNative Americans Phillip, Nathan, Lucy, and Petra

2. Page introduction • Page2………………………Important tribes • Page3………Area, Climate, Land form, and Natural resources. • Page4……Food source, Acquired the food and how they prepared it • Page5…………..Housing, Building shelter, Resource of house and getting resources

3. Geographical location, area, climate, landform, and natural resources • Climate : There was blizzards, tornados, icy cold, blistering heats, drought, and floods. • Area : The plain Indians lived on the interior plains between the Mississippi river and the rocky mountains.

4. Buffalo (Food and Resources) • They hunted buffalo or Americans bison. • The hunters slowly sneaked up on some of the buffalos. • The buffalo was the main sources for all the Americans Indians in the plains. • The buffalo’s meat could be eaten raw or cooked with the food berries nut’s to make a pemmican • They would keep dry meat for months and still eat it • The buffalo also supplied some material’s like clothing, tool’s, and utensils. • They twisted the buffalos hair to make cord and made needles and other tools to the bones and horns • They lived in the eastern part of the plains called the central plains

5. Plains Food • The Plains people would hunt Buffalo, deer, and elk. • As well as hunting the tribe would gather plants . Such as nuts, grasses, and berries. • They also grew beans, squash, corn, and sunflowers.

6. Plains tribes • Some plain Indians include the Comanche, Sioux, Omaha, Arapaho, Missouri, Cheyenne, Ojibwa, Blackfoot, and Mandan. • Up until the 1500’s Indians lived mainly of the on the edges of the Plains or along the rivers. For example, in the far west there was the Blackfoot tribe. • Towards the north west tribes such as the Mandan had villages.