Geography
the heartland
What are the Great Plains called?
This group of Native American tribes, including the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Sioux, settled in the Great Plains by 1700 A.D., adapting to their environment through farming near rivers and following buffalo herds
Who were the predominant Native American tribes in the Great Plains by 1700 A.D.?
Plains women wore long dresses, leggings to the knee and moccasins. They decorated their dresses with eye-teeth which are canine teeth on the upper jaw of elk, right below the eyes. Due to its scarcity, the more teeth the women had of their dresses determined the hunting capabilities of said family.
What animal teeth did Plains women use to decorate their dresses, with the number of teeth indicating the hunting prowess of their family?
Before Europeans came, large-scale warfare was rare
Did the people of the Great Plains ever get involved in wars?
Before the 1500’s, horses were not in North America
Before what year were horses not in America?
Made up of hills and grassy stretches of land.
What are prairies?
Nomadic tribes in the Great Plains lived in these portable dwellings made of buffalo hide and long poles. When buffalo herds moved, these dwellings were collapsed and set back up once the herd settled.
What were the portable dwellings used by nomadic tribes in the Great Plains, made of buffalo hide and long poles?
Buffalo hides were used for both clothing and shelter. Ropes, bowls, needles, thread and other tools also came from the Buffalo. They were also a part of spiritual practices. Each hunt was prepared with special ceremonies as they believed they needed the support of the spirit of the Buffalo to have success when hunting. Since the buffalo roamed, the people developed a lifestyle that allowed them to follow them .
What versatile material, obtained from the buffalo, was used by Native Americans for clothing, shelter, tools, and spiritual practices, shaping their way of life around the buffalo’s movement?
Small raiding parties were fairly common.
If the Natives got into a small dispute, what was its cause?
After 100 years, the horses had traveled up to the Great Plains leading the Lakota to catch them and tame them.
After how many years did which group catch and tamed the wild horses?
Water shortages
Why is it hard to farm on the Great Plain?
Native American tribes settled near rivers in the Great Plains due to fertile land, where they built lodges made of logs, grass, and dirt. These tribes also utilized teepees, especially when they needed to travel.
What kind of dwellings did Native American tribes near rivers in the Great Plains build, made of logs, grass, and dirt?
Since family played such a huge role in their culture, when people from different groups would adopt each other, they’d think of each other as brothers or sisters, making trade run smoothly
What is the cultural practice where people from different groups adopt each other as brothers or sisters, fostering smooth trade due to the importance of family bonds?
Resources became scarce among the groups due to the Europeans
What became scarce after colonization?
After yet another 100 years, most Native Americans on the plains used them to help them hunt buffalo and move their camps with ease.
After how many more years did Native Americans on the plains use horses and for which purpose?
Large buffalo herds
What roams around in the Great Plains?
Some Native American tribes settled in the Great Plains near rivers due to drought, while others were nomadic, following buffalo herds. This environmental adaptation led to the diversity of dwellings, from teepees to lodges.
What were the primary reasons for Native American tribes settling near rivers or becoming nomadic in the Great Plains?
Plains people also developed a form of sign language to provide easier communication between everyone involved in these trade fairs.
What language did Plains people developed and fro what purpose?
After the arrival of Europeans, large battles between groups became more common as resources became scarce, the most common item being horses.
What was the common item for theft and discord among the groups?
The introduction of horses completely changed their lifestyles as before horses they had to follow Buffalo herds by foot, training dogs to pull their belongings on sleds.
How did the introduction of horses change their lives?
A huge area of land that spreads from Canada to Texas. From the Rocky Mountains to North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma
What are the Great Plains?
Nomadic tribes in the Great Plains constructed these dwellings using buffalo hide and long poles. When buffalo herds moved, these dwellings were collapsible, allowing for easy relocation.
How did nomadic tribes in the Great Plains construct their dwellings, made of buffalo hide and long poles, to adapt to the movement of buffalo herds?
The people of the Great Plains made their clothing mostly out of buffalo and deer hide. The men of the northern plains wore a shirt, leggings they reached their hips and moccasins with their hard bottoms, also wearing a breechcloth. Whenever the weather grew cold they would wear high boots and a robe made out of buffalo hide. The inside of the robe was covered with buffalo fur to provide warmth and protection against the harsh cold. In the warmer, southern plains, the men would leave their upper bodies bare with some decorating their upper bodies with tattoos.
What did the people of the Great Plains make their clothing out of and what we’re it’s components.
They sought to stealing goods from each other, gaining glory if they managed to steal a counting coop, which meant getting close enough to an enemy during battle to touch him without killing him. This was considered a great feat of bravery.
What was the meaning of stealing a counting coop?
After horses were introduced, a person’s wealth was measured by the number of horses they had.
What was measured by the number of horses they owned?