Plains Indians – Where did they live

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What do they live in?

The tipi (teepee) is a portable house, great for the nomadic life of a Plains Indian.

It is made up of 3-4 poles and up to 12 buffalo skins sewn together.

The opening always faced the morning sun

It takes about one hour for a women to assemble the families tipi

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What about travel?

The Plains Indians lives changed when they got horses. They traded or stole them from the Spanish settlers.

The horses helped with hunting, intertribal trading and wars.

Warriors would paint their horses to show their history of battles.

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Plains Fashion

Summer wardrobe of deerskin and a winter wardrobe of buffalo.

Every Indian wore a belt to hang tools, knives or cups off of, since there were no pockets.

Each tribe made a different moccasin, some were made from deerskin, quills, and beads.

Hairpipes, long thin beads made from bones, were woven into the hair and kept for life.

If a man has been a great warrior he would wear a war bonnet made of eagle feathers. The greater the warrior, the more feathers.

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These shirts are made from human scalps…you don’t want to be a Plains Indian’s enemy!

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The Buffalo

Before each hunt they performed a buffalo dance

On foot it took a whole tribe to catch a buffalo, they are very dangerous.

The buffalo heart was left on the plains as an offering

Men and women would record their lives on buffalo hides using pictographs.

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When the white man came

The Plains Indians were the tribes to hold onto their culture the longest out of all of the American Indians.

This is because the plains were the last to be settled and the hardest to live off of.

When the white man came, it changed where they lived, the tools they used, and what they ate.