Transcript Plains Indians

Plains Indians
By: Aureliano Adame Jr., Zach Roth,
Paul Fisher, and Kyle Gerwin
Tribes
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Arapaho Indians
Arikara Indians
Assiniboine Indians
Atsina Indians
Brule Indians
Cheyenne Indians
Chipewyan Indians
Cree Indians
Crow Indians
Dakota Indians
Hidatsa Indians
•Kainah Indians
•Mandan Indians
•Oglala Indians
•Osage Indians
•Oto Indians
•Piegan Indians
•Ponca Indians
•Quapaw Indians
•Sarsi Indians
•Siksika Indians
•Teton Indians
•Wichita Indians
•Yanktonai Indians
Sioux Tribe
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Lived: Dakota’s, Kansas, Nebraska,
Montana, and Wyoming.
How they lived: Nomadic and moved
frequently followed buffalo herds and
lodged in teepees.
No matter how often they moved they were
a united tribe.
Sioux Tribe Con’t.
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What they wore: strips of leather in their hair to
keep their hair pulled back.
Clothes were all made of animal skin (mostly deer skin).
Women wore long dresses and leggings, men wore
deerskins shirts and tight leggings.
3 Interesting Facts On Sioux
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Sioux means “Little Snake”
Refer themselves to Lakota/Dakota
Social activities powow, rodeos, and races
Cheyenne Tribe
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Lived- Great Plains east of Rocky
Mountains west of Mississippi River,
Settled in Montana and Oklahoma.
How They Lived- Took care of morning
chores after waking up, men prepared to
start hunting, women would keep the camp
in order.
Cheyenne Tribe
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What They Wore- Men wore hip-leggings
made of deerskin, women wore moccasins
knee length leggings and dresses made of
deerskin.
3 Interesting Facts About the Cheyennee
Cheyenee customs was smoking of the
peace pipe.
 They had their own language.
 Their homes were made from logs and
earth.
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Pawnee Tribe
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Lived- Valley of Platte River, Nebraska
How They Lived- Women grew crops and
made pottery, women were perceived as
the power of life, men would hunt
What They Wore- Women wore skirts and
moccasins, and in the winter they wore
buckskin dresses, men would wear loin
cloths in warmer weather
3 Interesting Facts About the Pawmee
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Pawnee name derived from Caddoan
pariki, meaning “horn”.
Men were excellent hunters.
They hunted quail, raccoons, skunks, and
prairie chickens.
BlackFoot Tribe
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Lived- Montana
How They Lived- They were excellent
warriors. They were also very good
hunters.
What They Wore- They wore many animals
skins and used mother nature to supply
there colthing
3 Interesting Facts About Blackfoot
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They are called Blackfoot because of how
they wore black moccasins.
Every part of the buffalo was used for
various reasons. It was never wasted.
They lived in buffalo made teepees.
Work Cited
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http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wilson/ant304/projects/project
s98/krochenskip/krochenskip.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne
http://www.cheyenneindian.com/
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/pawnee/pawn
eehist.htm
http://www.kshs.org/places/pawneeindian/history.htm
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/siouxindians/sioux-indians.htm
http://www.eiu.edu/~lewclark/bvsioux.html