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The environment of the Great Plains affected the social structure of the Sioux tribe because the movement patterns of the Bison. The men would hunt the Bison on horseback while the women would look after the temporary home front and watch over the children. As is common with other American Indian societies, chiefs and elders held the most power and were respected greatly among the tribe.

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The bison that the Sioux hunted provided them with a lot of resources, which they would all utilize. They would use the bones of the buffalo to make tools and cutlery, the hides for clothes and teepees, and they would fully utilize all of the meat for eating. Because the bison were the basis of their society and key to their survival, the Sioux respected the animals they were hunting, unlike the american hunters that would decimate their numbers. The Sioux never hunted more Bison than they needed.

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The Great Plains are a region that consist of the 10 modern day states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. They are a sprawling land of flat grassland full of wildlife, and the main tribes that were located there were the Sioux, Comanche and Wichita. The Sioux were a mobile society because their whole life was centered around hunting buffalo and since buffalo were always on the move, so were the Sioux.

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The Sioux would construct teepees because their tribe was hunting-based and nomadic, meaning that they were always on the move on the hunt for Bison. They would construct teepees as temporary and easy to build shelter on the road. We found this on Encyclopeida Brittanica.

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The Sioux were a very militaristic tribe, frequently fighting neighboring tribes such as the Pawnee. When the Europeans came the Sioux adapted and they started incorporating new technologies and animals such as horses and guns into their society.

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The Sioux tribe, as well as most plains indians, hunted bison that migrated from north to south in the fall and returned in the spring rains replenished the grass. We found this information on Encyclopedia Britannica.