Native Americans of the Great Plains by Hannah, Taylor, Billy and Danny

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Native Americans of the Great Plains by Hannah,
Taylor, Billy and Danny
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Homes

• They live in mat covered long houses and tipis.
  The villages are usually near a river or
  stream.The tipis are made out of buffalo skin and
  poles. They carried their tipis on a travois to
  follow the buffalo herd. The outside of the tipi
  was decorated with dyes made from berries. It was
  the womens job to put up or take down the tipi.

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Food

• They eat fish and buffalo.They also eat
  pemmican and jerky,
• antelope, wild sheep, deer
• and elk.They hunted their food with spears, and
  bows and arrows. Sometimes they would chase the
  buffalo on horseback off the side of a cliff. The
  Plains Indians used every part of the buffalo.

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Clothing

• The women wore short sleeve dresses down to
  their knees. The dresses were usually made out of
  buck skin. The mens shirts were a little bit
  shorter, but had longer sleeves. In colder
  weather they wore buffalo hides.

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Important Facts

• They used travois to carry their belongings as
  they followed the buffalo herds. They sometimes
  wore bits of shells between their noses. The
  horses were introduced to the Indians in the in
  the mid 1700s after the Spanish arrivals.

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