1. The Plains Native
Americans
Created by: David, Lexi, Naomi,
Nick, Jason, and Romy

2. Shelter
The Plains main shelter
were teepees and earth
lodges. Teepees are made
of poles with decorated
buffalo hides pinned
together with big pegs. For
a fire they would make a
small hole in the top to let
the smoke and hot air out.
Earth lodges are like how
they sound. They are lodges
made out of sticks, logs,
leaves, and of course,
earth.

3. Transportation
The people of the
buffalo walked while
dogs pulled their
belongings. They also
traveled in canoes. In
the 1600’s they traded
things with the
Europeans for
horses. Horses helped
them get around more
easily.

4. Tools
For the Plains
tools they used arrow
heads and used buffalo
skin for storage bags.
Sticks and rocks were
also helpful. They used
buffalo horns for tools
too. They used scrapers
and fleshers to take the
extra meat in small
places.They used
needles to stitch up the
bags.

5. Food
The plains region
ate buffalo, smoked
fish, berries, deer,
elk, moose, antelope,
bear, nuts, corn,
squash, and
vegetables. The
women harvested and
picked, the men
hunted and fished.

6. Clothing
For clothing the men wore long
Buckskin leggings that passed under a
narrow belt at the waist and hung
down in front. Women wore full-
length, one piece sleeveless dresses
tied at their shoulders. In the cold
weather they added sleeves to their
dresses. Both the men and women
added heavy buffalo skin robes in the
winter. To make an Elk hide dress all of
the sewing was done with sinew using
awl or a bone needle. To make the
clothes they used sinew, awl, bone
needle, dyed porcupine quills, and
later on they used dyed horse hair as
beads. They also used skins.

7. Language and communication
Some language
Native American tribes
speak are Algonkian,
Athapaskan, Cakddoan,
Kiowanshoshonean, and
Siouan. Most Native
Americans either talk,
use pictogragh symbols,
and use face paint for
communication.

8. Interesting Facts
In Northern Montana,
Southern Alberta, and
Canada everybody respected
all living things. When they
are not very little kids are
taught how to respect old
people. There is a cliff
where buffalo jump off and
die, it’s called the jumping
pond. Natives probably go
there to skin and eat
buffalo.

9. Ceremonies
A ceremonies that
was common was the
sun dance. It
sometimes had a feast,
fasts, and sometimes
self torture. Also,
they had Pow-wows in
the summer which had
many songs and dances.
Many friends and family
visited each other at
the Pow-wows.