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Definitions Of Native Americans And The Plains Indians
The Plains Indians used a lot of natural recourses such as buffalo skin, the buffalo bones, and the horses for transportation.
The first natural recourse is the buffalo skin. The Plains Indians used the buffalo skin for clothes, blankets, and tepees. Without clothes and blankets, the Plains Indians will be cold and they won’t be warm if they don’t have blankets or clothes. So, with the clothes and blankets, the Plains Indians were be warm.
Another natural recourse was the buffalo bones. The Plains Indians used the buffalo bones to make weapons, tools, and needles. The plains Indians used the bones to make spears so they can hunt for food and fight. The Plains Indians used the tools to fix anything that they needed to fix and they used the

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