Plains Indians

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The history of the Plains Indians

There were many differently-named tribes who lived on the Great Plains when the Europeans came, but they mostly shared a common culture because of living in similar environments. The buffalo bison was a major source of food along with other game and cultivated crops. They also gathered wild fruits and vegetables. Nomadic roaming tribes lived in large teepees, often painted with religious symbols.


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Tribes that did not roam often lived in earthen or grass lodges and would grow crops. After the Europeans re-introduced horses to the New World in the s and traded them to the tribes, they used those instead. The tribes also used horses to help them hunt and make war.


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The Comanche were part of a different language tradition altogether—the Uto-Aztecan, which included the language of the Aztecs. Some worked with the U.

The Plains Indians

Army as scouts and some raided pioneer settlements. They were farmers and hunter-gatherers. From autumn to spring they raised crops. During the summers they went out onto the great plains to hunt buffalo on foot.

Plains Indians

The coming of the Spanish , who brought horses with them, changed the way the plains indians hunted. They quickly adapted to hunting buffalo on horseback as nomadic hunters. It began with the Apache who stole horses from the Spaniards. Horses also escaped into the wild. The Comanche soon followed and both tribes based their wealth and power on the horse.


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Horses were traded to or captured by other tribes and by the mid s most plains indians had one or more horses.