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Animals of The Plains
What Am I?
Who Am I?
Plains Indians
Definitions
100
Name one well known bird that lives in the Prairies
grouse, meadow larks, quail, sparrows, hawks, burrowing owls, falcons.
100
Largest River in the United States.
Mississippi
100
Sioux medicine man and chief.
Sitting Bull
100
Tribe named for their black moccasins.
Blackfoot
100
Pole-framed tents covered with skins.
Tepees
200
Name an insect that lives in the prairies.
grasshoppers, leafhoppers
200
A huge monument with carvings of 4 famous US Presidents
Mount Rushmore
200
US Army general who lost the Battle of Little Big Horn.
General Custer
200
This tribes name means "friends" or "allies"
Dakota
200
A plain or a hilly region within the temperate zone that is covered by grasses.
Prairie
300
What was the most important animal to the Indians of the Plains?
Bison or buffalo
300
The Mississippi River empties into this.
Gulf of Mexico
300
Name given to the Dakota meaning "snakes in the grass"
Sioux
300
The Ojibwa drove out this tribe from the Eastern Woodlands and onto the plains where they gave up hunting and farming.
Cheyenne
300
Plants the dry up and break from their roots and roll across the plains.
Tumbleweeds
400
The American pioneers named these animals because their cry sounds something like the bark of a small dog.
Prairie Dog
400
Name one of the three most important WESTERN tributaries of the Mississippi River.
Missouri River, Arkansas River, and Red River
400
This tribe lived in southeastern Montana and were enemies of the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes.
Crow
400
Before the horse came the Indians used this animal as pack animals.
dogs
400
A time of little or no rain
Drought
500
This animal was a favorite of the Plains Indians for both hunting and eating.
Prairie chicken
500
What is the name of an important Atlantic current.
Gulf Stream
500
This tribe of Texas was originally a branch of the western Shoshone tribe.
Comanche
500
This Indian Chief had a vision of many white soldiers falling into his camp like grasshoppers from the sky.
Sitting Bull
500
A region which the Indians called Mako Sica that had irregular cliffs and colorful hills striped with gray, white, and red rock.
Badlands