Which Indians originally lived on the great plains?

Answer 1

Nobody originally lived on the Great Plains, since they were too vast and featureless to permit natives on foot to live there for long periods. There were no reliable food sources except the huge herds of buffalo, deer, antelope and elk, which constantly moved and migrated seasonally - natives on foot would quickly starve since they could not keep up with these herds.

Only when Europeans introduced horses and these gradually became available to some tribes did they begin to live permanently on the Plains - so it was effectively Europeans who created the Plains culture. Just over a hundred years later it was white Americans who ended the Plains culture by decimating the native wildlife and imposing the reservation system.

The true Plains tribes, from North to South, were:

• Atsina or Gros Ventres of the Plains
• Sarsi
• Assiniboin or Hohe
• Plains Ojibwe
• Plains Cree
• Piegan or Pikuni
• Blood or Kainah
• Blackfoot
• Crow
• Teton Lakota (Brule, Oglala, Minneconjou, Two Kettles, Hunkpapa, No Bows, Blackfoot Sioux)
• Northern Cheyenne
• Suhtaio
• Arapaho
• Southern Cheyenne
• Kiowa
• Kiowa Apache
• Comanche
• Jicarilla (Plains Apache)

Other tribes lived on the edges of the Plains and only hunted buffalo occasionally. These are not classed as true Plains tribes; they include the Pawnee, Omaha, Shoshone, Nez Perce, Flatheads, Mandan, Hidatsa, Aikara, Ponca, Oto, Missouri, Caddo, Ute, Nakota Sioux, Iowa and Dakota Sioux.

Answer 2

it is unknown who was the very first people to enter the great plains. around 100 to 150 tibe's, each consisting of around 10 to 50 people, entered the plains in the early 1800s. it is believed that they crossed a bridge from Siberia to Alaska when the sea level was low.

Answer 3

Their are a lot here are some:

The Eastern Dakota, or Santees, included the Mdewakanton, Wahpekute, Sisseton, and Wahpeton. They lived in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa.

The Western Dakotas were the Teton which had seven bands or subdivisions. By 1850 most Tetons lived west of the Missouri River.

Some scholars refer to the Yankton and Yanktonai as the Middle Dakota. They lived between the Santees and the Tetons. The Yanktons and Yanktonais practiced agriculture as well as hunting.

Today, the Dakota have names based on the specific dialect of their common language. The Teton are now called the Lakota, the Santees are called Dakota, and the Yanktons, and Yanktonais are sometimes referred to as Nakota.

Teton

Seven Bands of Tetons or Western Dakota Nation (later called Lakota) include

Sans Arc (Itazipcho), Two Kettle (Oohenonpaa), Blackfoot (Sihasapa), Minneconjou, Hunkpapa (or Uncpapa), Oglala, Brule (Sichanque) bands

Homeland: after 1800 usually west of the Missouri River

Yankton

Middle Dakota Nation (later called Nakota)

Homeland: after 1800 usually around the Red River of the North and Lake Traverse west to the Missouri River

Yanktonai

Middle Dakota Nation (later called Nakota) includes the Cutheads

Homeland: after 1800 usually around the Red River of the North and Lake Traverse west to the Missouri River

Sisseton

Eastern Dakota Nation

Homeland: after 1800 usually western Minnesota

Wahpeton

Eastern Dakota Nation

Homeland: after 1800 usually western Minnesota

Wahpekute

Eastern Dakota Nation

Homeland: after 1800 usually southern Minnesota and Iowa

Mdewakanton

Eastern Dakota Nation

Homeland: after 1800 usually central Minnesota and Iowa

Answer 4

The Sioux Indians lived in the Great Plains.