| A | B |
|---|
| Great Plains | grassland extending west-central US |
| eastern side Great Plains | Osage and Iowa planted crops |
| western side Great Plains | sioux and Cheyenne gathered wild food and hunted buffalo |
| As native people acquired horses | they could travel faster, further, hunt more efficiently |
| buffalo | provided basic needs |
| family life | lived in small extended family groups |
| men | hunted, raided |
| women | prepared hides, butchered game |
| buffalo sinews | used to make thread; bowstrings |
| buffalo bones, horns | made tools, toys |
| buffalo meat | dried into jerky; mixed with berries, fat - pemmican |
| buffalo hides | made teepees, clothing |
| communal way of life | Native americans on the plains |
| spirits controlled natural world | Plains Indian belief |
| particular sensitivity to spirits | became shamans |
| stories and myths | how children learned proper behavior, culture |
| no individual | allowed to dominate group |
| ruled by counsel rather than by force | Plains Indians |
| land was hled in common | for the use of the whole tribe. |
| white settler culture | differed from Native Americans on plains |
| land could not be owned | Native Americans |
| land could be owned | white settlers |
