PLAINS INDIANS

Location

The plains are located in central North America.

Tools and Weapons
The tools and weapons that the Plains Indians commonly used were spears, lances, axes, bows, arrows, and more.

Some tribes are Arapaho,
Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache, and Plains Cree.

HOMES

• Teepees
• Earth lodges
• Grass houses

CUSTOMS

• A game called Hoop and Pole
• Calumet (an ornamental tobacco pipe)
• Playing music
• Dancing

CLOTHING AND DRESS

• Aprons
• Breech cloths
• Moccasins
• Simple Dresses

Some foods they ate were corn, beans, melons, buffalo, fish, berries, elk, rabbit, deer, moose, lynx, turnips, and wolves.

Art and Artwork
They would use berry juice to make paint.
Sometimes men would paint pictures on their buffalo robes to show dreams or to tell stories.

FAMOUS NATIVE AMERICANS

• Crazy Horse
• Sitting Bull
• Little Wolf

HUNTING

• They used bows and arrows
• They would run buffalo off cliffs
• Also spears and lances

Facts
Sometimes they would use the poles of their Teepees to hold their stuff.
The buffalo was the main source of food for the Plains Indians.

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