Great Plains Quiz

The Plains Indians were mainly __________, which means they moved frequently to follow _____________________. They carried ___________, or portable homes, with them as they traveled.

• people/animals/lodges

• nomadic/animal herds/tipis

• men/animals/tipis

To obtain many bison at one time, hunters did a _________________. During this event, bison were frightened into a stampeded and fell off the side of a _______.

• buffalo jump/cliff

• buffalo jump/mountain

• stampede/cliff

In addition to being easy to set up, tipis kept their occupants ______ during rainstorms, warm during the ______, and _______ in the summer.

• dry/fall/hot

• wet/summer/hot

• dry/winter/cool

These homes were covered with ______________ of the bark of birch trees and were sometimes decorated with interesting items, like ___________, bear claws, or ________________.

• animal hides/paintings/quills

• birch bark/bear claws/paintings

• animal hides/quills/birch bark

The _____________ was considered an all-powerful God. The ________ was thought of as the ___________ of all spirits.

• Spirit/mother/Earth

• Great Spirit/Earth/mother

• mother/Great Spirit/Earth

Young men completed a ______________ to find the _________ for their lives.

• vision quest/vision

• vision/quest

• hunt/vision

The __________________ was a ritual that the Plains Indians thought helped the Earth remain tied to the ___________.

• Dancing Sun/Sun

• Sun dance/Sun

• Sun Dance/universe

When a young man and woman wanted to be ____________, the ______ family gave items of value to the _________ family.

• married/bride's/groom's

• married/groom's/bride's

• married/bride's/groom's

____________ changed the lifestyles of Plains tribes. With these animals, they were able to hunt, _____, and travel long __________ quickly.

• Horses/trade/distances

• Bison/gather/distances

• Horses/gather/distances

Women were responsible for building _______, cooking, gathering wild plants, and making _________. Men protected their tribes and __________.

• homes/cooking/hunted

• farms/food/fished

• homes/clothing/hunted