corners. c. The Indians had little bit of furniture. Their beds were made from buffalo robes‚ skins with the hair left on. They also had back rests. Food‚ clothes‚ and belongings were stored in parfleches. A parfleche was a pouch made of buffalo. d. . They also built wigwams. The wigwams protected the teepee from rotting. The wigwam was used to store food. IV) Religion A) The plain Indians had many religions. There are polytheisms. Animist was important to the Plains Indians life. They believe
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Eddy Mrs. Hyde Honors US History/ 6th hour Feb. 27‚ 2013/ Plains Indians Paper Decimation of the Plains Indians The Plains Indians were affected negatively when Americans came to the west and took the lands from the Indians. Not only did the Americans kill off the buffalo till they were almost extinct‚ but the Americans also tried to “Americanize” the Native Americans. Indians either died off or were sent to reservations‚ where the Indians were treated awful by the white police system and‚ occasionally
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The Plains Indians lived in the area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to Mexico. The most important tribes were the Sioux‚ Blackfoot‚ Cheyenne‚ Crow‚ Kiowa‚ and Comanche. The plains area was hotter than 100 degrees in the summer‚ and could drop to 40 degrees below zero with heavy snows in the winter. The region was so dry that when it rained it often flooded. The Great Plains was made up of grasslands‚ valleys‚ streams‚ and hills. There were very few
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THE GREAT PLAINS The Great Plains Native Americans were indigenous people who live in the center of North America. They covered states from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River and cover some provinces in Canada to Texas. The Great Plains Native Americans were separated into two groups called the Plain Indians and Prairie Indians. The Great Plains Native Americans were rich with culture‚ wore traditional clothing‚ and made their own tools. Some of the Great Plains Native Americans
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Why were Buffalo so important to the Plains Indians? Plains Indians became totally dependent on the Buffalo for their existence and it provided them with food‚ shelter‚ tools‚ entertainment and clothing. The Plains Indians became traveling hunters because the Buffalo moved to different places and the Indians followed the vast herds that covered the Plains. Until the arrival of the horse‚ the Native Americans hunted on foot. As they followed the Buffalo killed as many animals as possible for the
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Great Plains. The Crow tribe of the Great Plains were nomadic and followed the buffalo migrations which provided their food. This tribe spent a good part of the year living in camps that could easily be dismantled and moved to follow the buffalo migrations. Other tribes of the plains were more sedentary. These tribes lived in permanent villages year round. The Great Plains are located between the South and Midwest regions to the east and the Rocky Mountains to the west. The Great Plains Indians
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Buffalo The Great Animal Of The Plains Buffalos or bison are one of the beasts that used to freely roam the Wild West. They are one of the strongest and most powerful animals in North America. Millions once roamed the United States‚ Canada‚ and Mexico. Today they’re far fewer and less common. Most buffaloes live in national parks and protected areas. What Do Buffaloes Look Like? Buffaloes are very large animals that sort of resemble a bull. They have a big hump on their back close to their shoulders
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FRQ: Explain the ultimate defeat of the Plains Indians by whites. Select at least three major reasons for the decline of the Plains culture; then tell which you think was the most important and why. From the time that the Spanish reached the New World in 1492‚ European powers‚ and later on American‚ consistently tried to quash the native people‚ one way or another. Throughout the 1800s‚ and especially during the Gilded Age‚ the federal government’s attempts to confine the Native Americans to certain
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The first recording of The Wichita Indians dated back all the way to the 1500s by a spanish explorer named‚ Francis Vazquez de Coronado. Coronado explored the American Southwest in the early 1500s in search for riches. The Wichita tribe’s origin was discovered specifically in 1541 near the area of the Arkansas River which is now considered the south-central Kansas. The ancestors of the Wichita however lived in the eastern Great Plains from the Red River north to Nebraska for at least two thousand
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In the 1830’s the Plains Indians were sent to the Great American Deserts in the west because the white men did not think they deserved the land. Afterwards‚ they were able to live peacefully‚ and to follow their traditions and customs‚ but when the white men found out the land they were on were still good for agricultural‚ or even for railroad land they took it back. Thus‚ the white man movement westward quickly begun. This prospect to expand westward caused the government to become thoroughly
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