Create a storyboard illustrating the culture and environment of the Great Plains cultural region!
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LOCATION
ENVIRONMENT
NATURAL RESOURCES
FIRST NATIONS OF THE PLAINS
The Great Plains and Canadian Prairies region is an extremely large region that stretches from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains from Texas through Canada.
The Plains region has cold winters and hot summers. It is mostly a flat and treeless grassland with grazing herds of animals.
Animals such as pronghorn antelope, deer, bear, wolves, and bison provided meat for food, hides for clothing and homes, and bones for beads. Grasses and wild plants were also gathered such as the prairie turnip and chokecherry.
HOMES
The First Nations of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies include Comanche, Pawnee, Omaha, the Sioux: Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota (Assiniboine), Cheyenne, Siksika, Ojibwe
TRADITIONS
NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE PLAINS
CLOTHING AND OTHER ARTIFACTS
Tipis were constructed of long poles laid in a tall cone and covered with animal hides. They could be very large but were easy to transport for traveling. The outside was decorated with painted scenes of daily life.
Powwow: important religious ceremony featuring dances that honor and give thanks to the CreatorWinter Count: a calendar made by painting pictographs on bison hide.
Bison hides made blankets, clothing, shoes, belts, bags, quivers, dolls, and shields. Shields were painted with symbols meant to protect the bearer from harm and were decorated with fur and feathers.