PLAINS INDIANS

HOUSING OF THE PLAINS

THE EASTERN PLAINS

• Rainfall on the eastern plains made it possible for American Indians to farm successfully
• They settled in villages near rivers and built earth lodges to live in.
• A lodge is a home that plains Indians made by using bark,earth, and grass

LIFE OF THE WESTERN PLAINS

• The dry land of the western plains made farming difficult .
• But the area had many buffalo. These huge Woolley animals
• Gave the western plains every thing they needed.

BUFFALO RECOURSES

• They used buffalo for shields,weapons,clothes, and food

THE NOMADS

• The Spanish brought horses to North America .
• Which made it easier for nomad groups to hunt and travel.
• They followed the buffalo herds.
• A nomad is a person who moves around

CHIEFS

COMANCHE GOVERNMENT

• The Comanche had a system of government that fit their lives as nomads .
• They divided themselves into groups.
• Each group hunted and traveled freely.

SPECIAL CULTURES AND EVENTS

• Each year,the eastern plains indians spent spring and fall
• Farming in their villages.
• Every summer and winter,they left their villages to hunt buffalo .