Plains Indians

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The Plains Indians were diverse Native American peoples of the Great Plains known for their nomadic buffalo-hunting cultures, horse-centered lifestyles, and distinctive tipi dwellings.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American peoples
indigenous peoples of North America
adaptedTo horse introduction
affectedBy United States–Native American wars
surface form: U.S. Indian Wars

bison extermination
reservation system
westward expansion of the United States
economyBasedOn bison hunting
trade
engagedIn intertribal warfare
trade with Europeans
includes Arapaho
Blackfoot
Cheyenne
Comanche
Crow
Dakota
Hidatsa people
surface form: Hidatsa

Kiowa people
surface form: Kiowa

Lakota
Mandan
Nakota
Omaha
Osage Nation
surface form: Osage

Pawnee
knownFor buffalo hunting
horse culture
nomadic lifestyle
tipi dwellings
languageFamily Algonquian languages
Caddoan languages
Siouan languages
Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
locatedIn Great Plains
practiced Sun Dance
shamanism
vision quests
region North America
reliedOn Bison bison
surface form: American bison
socialOrganization bands
tribes
spiritualBelief animism
reverence for the buffalo
timePeriod 19th century
pre-Columbian era
used bows and arrows
buffalo hides
horses
lances
tipis
war bonnets

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Plains (later period) associatedWithPeople Plains Indians
this entity surface form: Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains
Gall (Lakota leader) culture Plains Indians
subject surface form: Gall
this entity surface form: Plains Indian
Hunkpapa Lakota Nation culturalArea Plains Indians