Characteristics and Lifestyle of the Great Plains

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Flat land covered in grasses

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Characteristic of the Great Plains cultural region

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Not many trees

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Characteristic of the Great Plains cultural region

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Dry climate

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Characteristic of the Great Plains cultural region

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Farming and hunting

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How the Great Plains tribes got food

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Rivers

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Great Plains villages were always close to this water source

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Teepees and lodges

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Types of dwellings used by the Great Plains Native Americans

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Buffalo

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Source of the majority of meat for the Plains Indians

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Teepees

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Where Plains Indians lived while hunting

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Travois

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Used by Plains Indians to carry gear by lashing two poles together

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Lived in lodges and farmed in villages

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How farming life differed from hunting life for Plains Indians