Plain

Native AmericansPhillip, Nathan, Lucy, and Petra

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

Geographical location, area, Geographical location, area, climate, landform, and natural climate, landform, and natural

resourcesresources• 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.

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

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.

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.