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  2. Plains Indians - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 October 2024. Native Americans/First Nations peoples of the Great Plains of North America "Indigenous peoples of the Plains" redirects here. Not to be confused with Plains Indigenous peoples of Taiwan. "Buffalo culture" redirects here. For the culture of Buffalo, New York, see Buffalo, New York ...

  3. Cheyenne - Wikipedia

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    The Cheyenne (/ ʃ aɪ ˈ æ n / ⓘ shy-AN) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.The Cheyenne comprise two Native American tribes, the Só'taeo'o or Só'taétaneo'o (more commonly spelled as Suhtai or Sutaio) and the Tsétsėhéstȧhese (also spelled Tsitsistas, [t͡sɪt͡shɪstʰɑs] [3]); the tribes merged in the early 19th century.

  4. Travois - Wikipedia

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    After horses were introduced to North America, many Plains Indian tribes began to make larger horse-drawn travois. Instead of making specially constructed travois sleds, they would simply cross a pair of tepee poles across the horse's back and attach a burden platform between the poles behind the horse. This served two purposes at once, as the ...

  5. Plains Indian warfare - Wikipedia

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    During the American Indian Wars of the mid to late 19th century, Native American warriors of the Great Plains, sometimes referred to as braves in contemporary colonial sources, [1] resisted westward expansion onto their ancestral land by settlers from the United States. [2]

  6. Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands - Wikipedia

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    The Plains Indians culture area is to the west; the Subarctic area to the north. The Indigenous people of the Eastern Woodlands spoke languages belonging to several language groups, including Algonquian , [ 2 ] Iroquoian , [ 2 ] Muskogean , and Siouan , as well as apparently isolated languages such as Calusa , Chitimacha , Natchez , Timucua ...

  7. History of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As American expansion continued, Native Americans resisted settlers' encroachment in several regions of the new nation (and in unorganized territories), from the Northwest to the Southeast, and then in the West, as settlers encountered the tribes of the Great Plains.

  8. Category:Plains tribes - Wikipedia

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    Plains Indians Native American tribes — the indigenous peoples of North America from the Great Plains region, in central Canada and the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total.

  9. Arikara - Wikipedia

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    The Arikara played a central role in the Great Plains Indian trading networks based on an advantageous geographical position combined with a surplus from agriculture and craft. Historical sources show that the Arikara villages were visited by Cree, Assiniboine, Crow, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Sioux, Kiowa, Plains Apache and Comanche. [15]