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Travel was very important to the Native American inn the Plain Indian.

How some Native Americans  traveled is just walking by foot.  Some other people would use snowshoes when it snows and when there’s snow a lot of snow on the ground. They also used canoes and horses. The Native Americans travels because since the season was changing, the buffalos of any of the animal they hunted for food

were moving to a warmer place to stay.

The Native Americans traveled to the Great Plains were the buffalos and other animals they used for food and clothing.

This is why traveling is important to the Native Americans.

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Communications were an important part of Native American culture in the Plains Region. In the Great Plains, different tribes spoke dialects of the six root languages. These include Algonquian, Athapaskan, Caddoan, Kiowan, Shoshonean, and Siouan. If one tribe needed to communicate with another, although they spoke different languages, they used sign language.

Tribes in the Great Plains did not have a written language and did not have any books or paper. To keep track of the tribe’s history, they used Winter Counts. Winter Counts were painted pictures on buffalo hides showing important events from the tribe’s history. Great Plains Native Americans did not have a calendar to keep track of time, instead, they used a bundle of sticks to keep track of each day. They also had 13 moons each representing 28 days of the year. They had moons based on nature, such as the moon of the harvest, or the moon when the leaves turn green.

Tribes in the Great Plains used mathematics to some extent. They used mathematics not for the sake of mathematics, but to help them in their daily life. Although they used math, they did not have a written counting system. For Native Americans of the Plains, communications were mostly for practical reasons, using it to make their daily lives easier.

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Medicine was an important part of Native American culture in the Central Region. The Native Americans in the Great Plains region used most native prairie plants for medicine. There are over 200, and some of the most widely used plants are the Yarrow, and the Purple Coneflower. The Native Americans in the great plains had a medicine man, who went around carrying herbs to treat for the sick. He would make potions and ointments made out of herbs, spirituality, and magic. He would usually be paid in ponies, but if the treatment was not successful, he had to give back the payment.

For the Great Plains Native Americans, medicine was useful and necessary in keeping members of the tribe healthy and well.

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Interactions were an important part of Native American culture in the Plains Region. One of the main ways tribes interacted was by trading with each other. Tribes traded to acquire food, pottery, and clothing. They traded with other tribes, and every year in Wyoming and North Dakota large trading camps took place where many tribes would come to trade for things they wanted. The Native Americans of the Plains did not have a trading currency or money, but when they wanted something, they traded for it. Over time, they encountered European explorers and traders and from them exchanged guns for valuable bison hides. The use of guns made them more effective hunters.

Another main way tribes interacted in the Great Plains was war. Groups of warriors raided and attacked other tribes for horses, and to gain wealth. They also went into battle to gain glory, or to avenge their people. Interactions in the Great Plains were helpful when trading with other tribes, as well as in war.

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Tribes in the Plains Region were an important part of Native American life in the Great Plains. In the Plains Region at the 1700’s, there were about 30 tribes settling in the Great Plains. Some of the major tribes included the Teton, the Sioux, the Cheyenne, and the Santee tribes. Tribes in the Great Plains were organized by langen groups: tribes, made up of bands: family groups. Family members were also part of a clan. A clan is a group of people who shared a common ancestor, or family member in the distant past. Family’s usually had about 4-7 members.

The size of tribes shifted because different Native Americans, left to go hunt at different times. Although the size of the ir tribe could get smaller, in the summer the tribe had a gathering that gave them a chance to meet and discuss the future of their tribe. These gatherings might include 1000 people. Native American tribes did have chiefs. Leaders became chiefs by demonstrating bravery in warfare or great skill in hunting.

Tribes in the Great Plains were important to Native American culture in the Great Plains, separating different people into different groups.

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Native People today are important to the Native American culture. Some people go to tribal colleges and learn the languages there tribe spoke. If they didn't have these colleges nobody would learn the languages of there people. At gatherings they dress in colorful costumes and perform traditional dances. Native People today of the Plains tribes, are important to keep the tribes’ culture alive.

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Homes were an important part of Native American culture in the Plains Indians. They go find a nice place to start gathering their supplies. They would need bison skin, wood and string to build their tepee. The Plain Indians would stick some sticks of the bass of their tepee. Then the Plain  Indians would hunt for bison to wrap around the sticks and they would carve bones really thin to make string that they would tie the string around the cloth to tie it to the sticks.

Then they would gather little bits of wood and stick it in the ground holding the bison skin into the ground. After that, they would get some twigs and make it into a door. The Plain Indians would stick the twigs in a tie them in the bison skin. The Plain Indians then would attach a piece of cloth on to the twigs to make a door. These are what they use for making home.

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The plains Indians loved free time. In the children's free time they would play games and play with their dolls. The games and toys they had were they had board games. The men and women in their free time they would the men would play sports and the women played games like they would throw a ball back and forth. The plains indians did have music they made their own flutes to make music. The plains indians did have special arts and crafts like they made balls to play with and they made dolls to play with.

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Native Americans used a big variety of weapons.  Some examples of weapons they used are knives, axes, spears, bow and arrows, and war clubs,[some examples of war clubs are jawbone clubs, ball headed war clubs and gunstock, tomahawks, battle hammers, blowguns, lances, slingshots and war hatchets. These may have been made of bone, wood, leather, feathers and teeth. These would have been used for hunting Prairie chickens, Buffalo, coyote, gophers, rabbits, wolves, and moose.  The plains native americans used their weapons mostly for hunting. Don’t know how they were made. Weapons were very important to the plains native americans.

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Clothing was a important part of the Plains Indians culture. The materials they used for clothing were they used animal skin from deer and buffalo. They wore skin from animals like rabbit,buffalo,deer and moose also the men wore animal skin as leggings. They made there clothing by they  had fresh wet hide that was stretched and stuck into the ground or stretched on a rack. It was stretched there for three days until the fur slipped off. The shoes they wore were called moccasins that were made of animals and were often decorated with beads. The jewelry they wore was moccasins with beads. If they did not  have clothing they would have been pretty cold!

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Food was very important to the plains indians. The plains indians ate corn,beans,buffalo and squash. There most common food is buffalo. They got there food by hunters would creep on the heard of buffalo from all sides then rush in. They new what to eat by they could smell if it was good or bad. The plants they used as a source of food were berries and vegetables. They cooked their food by putting it on a rack and then putting a fire under the rack. The spices they put on their food were they put lots of spices on there food. They grew corn,squash and beans.