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The Great Plains. Kasia, Caitlin, Darnisha, and DeVonte ’. Where were they located?. The Great Plains Indians were located in what is now South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas. Cheyenne. What different tribes are associated with the Great Plains Indians?.
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The Great Plains Kasia, Caitlin, Darnisha, and DeVonte’
Where were they located? • The Great Plains Indians were located in what is now South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas.
What different tribes are associated with the Great Plains Indians? • - Arapaho, Arikara, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Ponca, Sioux, Assiniboine, Crow, and many others.
What type of homes did they live in? How were they constructed? • The Great Plains Indians lived in teepees. The women used long poles and stuck them in the ground, making a circle. They tied the tops of the poles together in the middle of the circle and fastened buffalo hide around them.
Culture • Language: They speak Cheyenne language, but most speak English today. Cheyenne is a musical language that has complicated verbs with many parts. It’s very long and have vowels that are difficult for English speakers to pronounce.
Culture • Religion: The Plains' Indians believed in the Great Spirit or Wakan Tanka. The Indians believed that the Great Spirit had power over all things including animals, trees, stones, and clouds. The earth was believed to be the mother of all spirits. The sun also had great power because it gave the Earth light and warmth. Their tradition believes that every being has a spirit and must be treated with respect. Most rituals were done by doing dances, such as the Animal Dance and the Sun Dance.
Culture • Dress: Cheyenne women wore long deerskin dresses, and men wore breechcloths with leather leggings. A Cheyenne lady's dress or warrior's shirt was fringed and often decorated with porcupine quills, shells, and elk teeth. Cheyenne men wore moccasins and women wore high fringed boots.
Culture • Art: Cheyenne artists are famous for their fine quill embroidery, beadwork, carving, pipestone, and pottery.
Food • The Cheyenne and Kiowa were originally farming people, with the women harvesting, while the mean hunted deer and buffalo. Besides buffalo meat, Cheyenne Indians also like to eat fish, fruit and berries. Once they acquired horses, the tribe followed the buffalo herds as they moved across the plains. They Cheyenne tribe gave up farming, and traded animal hides with other tribes for grains and crops. With them becoming nomads they lived in tepees.
Daily Life • Cheyenne women were in charge of the home, just as the Kiowa women. Houses belonged to the women in both tribes. Cheyenne women cooked, cleaned, built their family’s house and dragged heavy posts with them whenever the tribe moved. • Men were the only ones who could become chiefs. They were hunters and warriors and were responsible for feeding and defending their families. • Both men and women took part in storytelling, artwork, music, and traditional medicine.
Daily Life: Children • The children do the same things most children do: they play, go to school, and help around the house. Many Cheyenne children like to go hunting and fishing with their fathers. In the past, Indian boys and girls had more chores and less time to play in their daily lives, just like colonial children, but they did have dolls, toys, and games to play. They enjoyed a hoop game, and lacrosse.
Warfare • Cheyenne warriors were in a lot of warfare. They used powerful bows and arrows, war clubs, spears, and hide shields. One of their war customs for all warriors was called counting coup. Coup was a point system that gave individual warriors points for touching an enemy (or an opponent if they were playing war games) in battle without harming them. Counting coup was very typical of the Cheyenne. They loved games. To the Cheyenne, the activity of war was fun. The Cheyenne would fight easily. They were always looking for more "coup". They fought other tribes all the time.
Famous Stories/ Historical Events • Some famous stories of the Cheyenne tribe are Falling-Star, The old Woman of the Spring, The Girl Who Married a Dog, and Origin of the Buffalo.
Famous Tribe Members • One famous member of the Cheyenne tribe is Tall Bull. He was the leader of the Dog Soldiers, the fiercest of the Cheyenne warrior societies. Tall Bull was shot and killed in the Battle of Summit Springs in Colorado by Major Frank North, leader of the Pawnee Scouts. Another member of the Cheyenne tribe is Little Wolf. He was born in present day Montana. By the mid-1820’s, Little Wolf had become a prominent chieftain of the Northern Cheyenne, leading a group of warriors called the Elk Horn Scrapers during the Northern Plains Wars. Tall Bull was known as a great military tactician and led a dramatic escape from confinement in Oklahoma back to the Northern Cheyenne homeland in 1878.
Where are they today? • Most of the Great Plains tribes still exist today. Cheyenne Indians are in Oklahoma and Montana today. The Kiowa Indians also live in Oklahoma today.
Other Information • The Great Plains Indians have been found to be the tallest people in the world during the late 19th century.
Sources • http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports4/plains.htm • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains_Tribes • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiowa_people • http://www.bigorrin.org/cheyenne_kids.htm
