The Great Plains Native Americans

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Housing
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• People in the great plains mostly lived in
  tepees.
• Tepees where made of buffalo hides and large
  poles.
• The tepees where warm in the winter and cool in
  the summer.
• They also lived in grass houses.
• Grass houses where made of tied grass and buffalo
  thongs.

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Recreation
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• Some of the things the plains do for recreation
  are things that are life situations but
  miniature.
• A game that was a real life situation that they
  liked was the buffalo hunt game. This is were a
  boy would have a cactus leaf attached to a stick
  and they called it the buffalo heart. The others
  would shoot at it with their arrows and the
  person who hit it got chased by the boy with the
  cactus leaf and was poked in the butt.

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Food
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• Buffalo and basin where the main source of food
  for the Sioux.
• They also ate pronghorns, antelopes, elks, moose,
  and deer.
• There was a lot of rice grass, arrow roots, and
  all different types of berries to be gathered.
• Tribes that lived near the river ate fish for a
  main source of food.

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Clothing For Men
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• Men usually wore breechcloths and moccasins.
• For special occasions men wore leggings with
  fringed flaps.
• They also wore a shirt made of two skins from an
  animal that are sewn together.

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Clothing for Women
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• Women would were moccasins, short leggings, and a
  simple dress.
• For special occasions the dress was decorated
  with paint, porcupine quills, and elk teeth.
• The dress also was fringed at the bottom.

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Environment.what did it look like?
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• The Great Plains were relatively low and flat.
  There also were.
• vast treeless grasslands.
• cold winters and hot summers
• moderate rainfall
• animals such as buffalo, antelopes ,mule, deer,
  coyotes, prairie dogs, quail and pheasants.
• tepees in which the Sioux lived in.

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Values
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• The Great Plains had Indians with very
  important values. There were
• Ceremonies to honor the buffalo spirits who gave
  up their bodies and to bring them back for the
  winter immigration.
• The horse dance honored the horse because they
  made their lifestyles so much easier for hunting
  the buffalo. The horses also made their houses
  bigger because before the dogs had to carry it
  but the horse was stronger and could carry more.
• The Sun dance was held each summer for
  celebrating the return of the buffalo with all
  the Sioux bands.

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