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This is a long, cone shaped home made from wooden poles and covered with animal hide
What is a tipi?
The plains region is mostly made up of this type of land: lots of flat, open, _____.
What is a grassland or prairie?
Children learned from their families by watching and helping; what is one chore a child might do?
What is gathering firewood, helping prepare food, caring for younger siblings?
Name one thing made from the bison that people used for food.
Meat, jerky, pemmican
These are small bags or containers made from animal hide used to carry food and tools.
What are pouches?
This large animal roamed the plains in huge herds and helped shape where people lived and traveled.
What is a bison?
Many Plains people hunted in groups using bows and arrows or other tools. Name one safety or teamwork idea hunters would use.
What is staying quiet, signaling to each other, and watching for danger?
Name one thing made from the bison that was used for shelter (hint: covers for homes).
Hides to cover tipis or make robes
A tool with a curved edge to prepare hides, made from stone or bone.
What is a scaper?
Plains people often followed animals across the land. The word for moving from place to place to find food or resources is called ____.
What is nomadic?
Plains people held meetings and ceremonies in a special place; name one reason they might gather (celebration, decision, or remembrance).
What are celebrations, meetings, or ceremonies?
Bison bones were used for tools. Give one example of a tool made from bone.
What are scrapers, needles, awls, or cups?
This is a soft blanket-like item made from bison hide that kept people warm or was used for bed covering.
What is a robe?
Name one season when many Plains groups moved more often and explain why (one sentence).
When is winter or summer?
Explain briefly how roles in the community could be shared (give one example, such as who might make clothing and who might hunt).
Women often made clothing and did hide work, cooked, and prepared dried meat. Men often hunted and prepared the tipis.
Explain how every part of the bison was used (one or two sentences).
Meat for food, hides for clothing and shelter, bones for tools, sinew for thread, horns and hooves to make glue.
Name two types of clothing items made from animal hides that Plains people wore for warmth and protection.
Examples: shirts, leggings, moccasins, robes
Explain in one sentence why rivers and streams were important to people living on the Plains.
Rivers provided water, fish, transportation, and good places to camp.
Describe in two sentences how storytelling or songs helped children learn about their culture.
Stories and songs passed down lessons, history, names, and values so children learned what was important.
Describe in two sentences how the bison was important to both survival and culture for Plains people.
Bison provided most food and material needs, and bison hunts and stories were central to culture, ceremony, and identity.