Native Americans/First Nations peoples of the Great Plains of North America
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Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have historically lived on the Interior Plains (the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies) of North America. While hunting-farming cultures have lived on the Great Plains for centuries prior to European contact, the region is known for the horse cultures that flourished from the 17th century through the late 19th century. Their historic nomadism and armed resistance to domination by the government and military forces of Canada and the United States have made the Plains Indian culture groups an archetype in literature and art for Native Americans everywhere.
The Plains tribes are usually divided into two broad classifications which overlap to some degree. The first group became a fully nomadic horse culture during the 18th and 19th centuries, following the vast herds of American bison, although some tribes occasionally engaged in agriculture. These include the Arapaho, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda (Stoney), and Tonkawa. The second group were sedentary and semi-sedentary, and, in addition to hunting bison, they lived in villages, raised crops, and actively traded with other tribes. These include the Arikara, Hidatsa, Iowa, Kaw (or Kansa), Kitsai, Mandan, Missouria, Omaha, Osage, Otoe, Pawnee, Ponca, Quapaw, Wichita, and the Santee Dakota, Yanktonai and Yankton Dakota.
PlainsIndians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have...
warfare in PlainsIndian culture. First, was the Spanish colonization of New Mexico which stimulated raids and counter-raids by Spaniards and Indians for goods...
PlainsIndian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
Indians encountered, a policy which in short time ignited a general war on the Colorado and Kansas plains, the Colorado War. Raids by bands of plains...
The Great Plains, sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located just to the east of the Rocky Mountains...
many Southern Plains tribes adopted the horse culture and became nomadic. The tipi, an animal hide lodge, was used by PlainsIndians as a dwelling because...
Cody, Wyoming. The five museums include the Buffalo Bill Museum, the PlainsIndians Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum, the Draper Natural History Museum...
feathered headgear traditionally worn by male leaders of the American PlainsIndians Nations who have earned a place of great respect in their tribe. Originally...
or living in the Indian subcontinent Bombay East Indians, a Christian community in India British Indians, British people of Indian origin Indo-Canadians...
Army have made the PlainsIndians archetypical in literature and art for American Indians everywhere.[citation needed] PlainsIndians are usually divided...
Mardi Gras Indians (also known as Black Masking Indians) are African American carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, who dress up for Mardi Gras...
Desiderio, executive director. Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation "High PlainsIndians". Cause IQ. Retrieved 4 February 2022. "State...
and the Plains Apache to fight invading white settlers and U.S. soldiers, as well as Mexicans and the Mexican Army. Like other plainsIndians, the Kiowa...
Great Plains, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, which is now part of the Eastern United States and Canada. The PlainsIndians culture...
to the economy and society of the PlainsIndians peoples who inhabited the vast grasslands on the Interior Plains of North America, before the animal's...
Pawnee, Kansa, and Osage on the central great plains, and at the Caddo villages on the southern plains. The Dakota rendezvous was an important annual...
present Indian Reservations in Utah Territory, and to settle the Indians of said Territory in the Uinta Valley", unilaterally removing all Indians in the...
'travois' travel on the northern plains", Plains Anthropologist, 39, 145–59. Hodge, F. W. (Ed.). (1907). Handbook of American Indians. Washington. Hoijer, Harry...
characteristic of the Plains tribes, and solo end-blown flutes (flageolet) are also common. Nettl describes the central PlainsIndians, from Canada to Texas:...
Montana, with an Indian reservation, the Crow Indian Reservation, located in the south-central part of the state. Crow Indians are a Plains tribe, who speak...
victory for the Indians, with 29 soldiers killed and at least eight Indian casualties. Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Plains Apaches seeking...
of the most powerful Indian tribes on the Plains in the late 18th century, earning themselves the name "The Lords of the Plains." Niitsitapi stories trace...
the tipi has been used by certain Indigenous peoples of the Plains in the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies of North America, notably the seven tribes...
transportation in the centuries before the Plains tribes adopted the use of horses in the 1600s. Many of the Plains tribes had used the travois, a lightweight...
(Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally...
free-roaming Indian populations on the southern Great Plains. Prior to the arrival of English American settlers on the Great Plains, the southern Plains tribes...
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