Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have historically lived on the Interior Plains (the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies) of North America.
Plains Indian, member of any of the Native American peoples inhabiting the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. Perhaps because they were among the last indigenous peoples to be conquered in North America, the tribes of the Great Plains are often regarded in popular culture as the archetypical American Indian.
The Plains Indians (also known as Native Americans of the Plains and Prairie, Indigenous Peoples of the Great Plains) are the original inhabitants of the western plains of North America, now part of the United States and Canada.
Think of a Plains Indian tribe and most of us see a nomadic people with horses, hunting the vast herds of bison on the Great Plains. In reality, only some tribes who lived within the area from the Mississippi River in the East to the Great Basin in the West fit this image.
Many people think of the Plains Indians as people who traveled from place to place to find food and basic supplies. Only some of the tribes in this area lived that way. There were more than 30 different tribes who lived in the Great Plains.
Plains Indian - Pre-Horse Life, Tribes, Culture: From at least 10,000 years ago to approximately 1100ce, the Plains were very sparsely populated by humans. Typical of hunting and gathering cultures worldwide, Plains residents lived in small family-based groups, usually of no more than a few dozen individuals, and foraged widely over the landscape.
Starting around A.D. 1200, tribes from the north, east, and southeast regions of what’s now the United States and the Canadian prairies moved to this area to hunt bison for food, shelter, tools,...
Primitive culture - Plains Indians, Tribes, Rituals: The mounted buffalo hunters of the North American Great Plains, common in popular literature and cowboy movies, constituted a type of nomadic hunting society.
The Sioux are a native North American nation who inhabited the Great Plains region of, roughly, modern Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. They are one of the many nations referred to as Plains Indians who lived in the region for approximately 13,000 years before the arrival of the Europeans in the 17th century.
The following are twelve Native American stories from the Plains Indians culture of Nations including the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Ojibwe, Pawnee, and Sioux. Among them are hero tales, ghost stories, origin stories, and others of cultural relevance.