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What are the Great Plains?
A large, flat area of land.
Where are the Great Plains?
They are in the middle of North America.
Who lived in the Great Plains?
The Plains Indians.
What does 'climate' mean?
The normal weather conditions of a particular region
Is the climate of the Great Plains the same in winter and in summer?
No. Summers are hot. Winters are cold and snowy.
How were the first North American People called?
Indigenous people.
Did all indigenous people have the same culture? Why?
No. They all had different cultures, traditions, its own language and way of life.
Did the first people in North America write stories?
No. They used oral tradition.
Name a Plains tribe.
Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche, Pawnee, and Blackfoot.
Why did some tribes move often?
To follow buffalo herds.
What did the Early Plains believe in?
They believed hat all things in nature had spirits.
How did the Plains Indians show respect to spirits?
Through special ceremonies.
Apart from things i nature having spirits, what did many tribes believe in?
In a Great Spirit that created the world.
What things did the Plains Indians do to talk to different spirits?
They danced, sang, and prayed.
