Native Americans of the Great Plains by Hannah, Taylor, Billy and Danny

1. Native Americans of the Great Plainsby Hannah, Taylor, Billy and Danny

2. Homes They live in mat covered long houses and tipis. The villages are usually near a river or stream.The tipis are made out of buffalo skin and poles. They carried their tipis on a travois to follow the buffalo herd. The outside of the tipi was decorated with dyes made from berries. It was the women’s job to put up or take down the tipi.

3. Food They eat fish and buffalo.They also eat pemmican and jerky, antelope, wild sheep, deer and elk.They hunted their food with spears, and bows and arrows. Sometimes they would chase the buffalo on horseback off the side of a cliff. The Plains Indians used every part of the buffalo.

4. Clothing The women wore short sleeve dresses down to their knees. The dresses were usually made out of buck skin. The men’s shirts were a little bit shorter, but had longer sleeves. In colder weather they wore buffalo hides.

5. Important Facts • They used travois to carry their belongings as they followed the buffalo herds. They sometimes wore bits of shells between their noses. The horses were introduced to the Indians in the in the mid 1700s after the Spanish arrivals.