1. Native Americans Native Americans
EQ: How did the Plains Native Americans use their environment to obtain food, clothing, and shelter?

2. Plains
Pawnee
Yellow

4. Climate: hot summers, cold winters,
Geography~Climate
The land of the Plains Native Americans stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and from Canada to Texas.
Groups like the Lakota and Dakota (Sioux), Pawnee and Arapaho lived in the northern and central part of the region. Tribes like the Kiowa, Apache and Comanche lived in the southern area.
The people of the Plains came from other areas after being pushed out by other tribes.
In the plains they became buffalo hunters.
Climate: hot summers, cold winters,
plenty of rain for crops

5. The Buffalo ~ Buffalo were especially important to
Plains Native Americans.
Plains tribes used every part of the buffalo.
hide - teepees, clothing, and drums.
bones - tools for hunting, building and eating
meat - provided food.
Even the dung was used for fuel.
The Plains Native Americans followed the buffalo herds.

6. Buffalo Hunting ~
Native Americans dressed up like coyotes and chased the buffalo herd off the side of the cliff.

7. Shelter ~ People lived in teepees or tipis.
The frame was made of wooden poles and buffalo hides were stretched around them.
There were flaps at the top to let smoke from a small fire out. Since the plains people often moved around to follow the buffalo, teepees were easy to take down and put up.
Some tribes painted patterns on the teepees that told what family they were from, or pictures of the hunts and battles they had been in.

8. Shelter ~
Some of the tribes, like the Pawnee, lived in earth lodges in the eastern part of the plains.
Nomads- a group of people that move often to find food.
A travois was like a sled used to carry their teepees and other supplies.

9. Pemmican – dried buffalo meat
Food ~
Pemmican – dried buffalo meat
This drying rack was easy to put up and take down. They could easily move it from place to place as they followed the buffalo.

10. Food ~ Cooking tools were made from the environment;
trees, stones, buffalo parts.
Crops: (food grown on farms): corn, wheat, sunflowers

11. Clothing ~
The plains people dressed in clothes made from the hide of animals. Buffalo was most commonly used. In hot weather, men wore breechcloths. When it got colder, especially in the northern part of the region, they added deerskin shirts, leggings, and moccasins.

12. Clothing ~
Women wore dresses, leggings and moccasins. Sometimes the clothes were beaded in beautiful colors or decorated with porcupine quills and elk teeth.

13. Clothing ~
Battle Dress

14. EQ: How did the Plains Native Americans (PAWNEE) use their environment to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.