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For housing the plains people, they  made teepees because they were easily set up and taken down when they had to move in order to hunt bison. These teepees are made by putting up a wood frame, then putting buffalo hide around the frame. The hides are tied to the frame with sinew which is made from buffalo tendons

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Native American History for Kids: The Teepee, Longhouse, and Pueblo Homes

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Kids learn about Native American Indian teepee, longhouse, and pueblo homes and dwellings in the United States.

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The woods people made wigwams with a wooden frame, they tied a wooden skirt to the bottom part of the wigwam and birch bark over the rest of it, the wooden skirt would let a little bit of wind in so it wouldn't get too hot. The birch bark was to shelter them.

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The bison or the buffalo once roamed on the land of the great plains. They were something the plains people used in every day life. They used every part of the bison from the hide for teepees to the tendons for sinew or string to the bladder for holding water. They ate buffalo and made tools with it's bones. without the buffalo they would have lived very differently.

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Millions of bison once thundered across North America. These massive animals, characterized by their long, shaggy brown coats, have poor eyesight but acute hearing and an excellent sense of smell.

Historically, the American bison played an essential role in shaping the ecology of the Great Plains. They graze heavily on native grasses and disturb the soil with their hooves, allowing many plant and animal species to flourish. Prairie dogs prefer areas grazed by bison where the grass is short so they can keep a lookout for hungry predators, and wolves once relied on bison herds as a major food source. Today, wild bison are making a small comeback in a few scattered places, but they need more room to roam.

Diet

Bison mainly eat grasses and sedges.

Population
Did You Know?
The trails carved by animals like bison and deer in their seasonal migrations formed some of the earliest traceable paths into the American wilderness, and were followed by Native Americans, explorers and pioneers.

An estimated 20 to 30 million bison once dominated the North American landscape from the Appalachians to the Rockies, from the Gulf Coast to Alaska. Habitat loss and unregulated shooting reduced the population to just 1,091 by 1889. Today, approximately 500,000 bison live across North America. However, most of these are not pure wild bison, but have been cross-bred with cattle in the past, and are semi-domesticated after being raised as livestock for many generations on ranches. Fewer than 30,000 wild bison are in conservation herds and fewer than 5,000 are unfenced and disease-free.

Range & Habitat

Though bison once roamed across much of North America, today they are "ecologically extinct" as a wild species throughout most of their historic range, except for a few national parks and other small wildlife areas. Yellowstone National Park has the largest population of wild plains bison (about 4,000), and Wood Buffalo National Park has the largest population of wild wood bison (about 10,000). With help from Defenders, two small herds of pure, wild Yellowstone bison were recently reintroduced to Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Indian Reservations.

Behavior
Did You Know?
A bison's thick fur offers great protection against the harsh elements of the American plains. Their winter coat is so thick and well insulated that snow can cover their backs without melting.

Known for roaming great distances, bison move continuously as they eat. The females, or cows, lead family groups. Bulls remain solitary or in small groups for most of the year, but rejoin the group during mating season.

Bison are adapted to the extreme weather conditions of the Great Plains, from summer heat to winter cold and blizzards. In winter, bison can dig through deep snow with their heads to reach the vegetation below.

Bison often rub, roll and wallow. Wallowing creates a saucer-like depression in the earth called a wallow. This was once a common feature of the plains; usually these wallows are dust bowls without any vegetation.

Reproduction

Bulls and cows do not mingle until breeding season. Dominant bulls "tend" to cows, following the cow around until the cow chooses to mate. During this period, the bull blocks the cow's vision so that she may not see other competing bulls, and bellows at males striving for the cow's attention.

Mating Season: June-September, peak activity in July-August
Gestation: 270-285 days. Calf is born April-May.
Litter size: 1 calf

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Millions of bison once thundered across North America. These massive animals, characterized by their long, shaggy brown coats, have poor eyesight but acute hearing and an excellent sense of smell. Historically, the American bison played an essential role in shaping the ecology of the Great Plains.

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The Eastern woodlands was full of deciduous trees, these are trees that lose their leaves for the winter, some examples are birch, spruce,and oak

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For hunting the plains people used arrow heads for spears. They would   tie the arrow head to a stick for a spear, this could be dangerous because a bison could trample you.

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For hunting the woods people would set snares out in the woods, with bait dangling over the top a bunny could go to eat the bait and step in the snare. The snare would grab the animal and dangle it until they went to check the snare. Another trap they would set was a hole trap with sticks and leaves covering a hole with bait on the top, when the animal went for the bait they would fall in the hole

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The plains people believed that everything had a spirit and everything has a purpose, if something bad happened such as a drought, it didn't just happen it was the evil spirits or someone had done something wrong.

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During tribal ceremonies people would preform dances wearing carved masks, usually the dances tell a story, some may represent animals, spirits or you just can't tell what it is, but you could probably figure it out by the end of the dance.