What is Plains Indians?
[[File:North_American_cultural_areas.png|thumb|Native American cultural areas of Natives in the [[pre-Columbian era]]. ]] '''Plains Indians''' or '''Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies''' are [[Native American]] tribes with similar cultures in the [[Interior Plains]], which include the [[Great Plains]] and the [[Canadian Prairies]], between the [[Rocky Mountains]] and the [[Mississippi River]]. The landscape is mostly flat [[Grassland|grasslands]] and [[Plain|plains]]. The natives were often on the move ([[Nomad|nomadic]]), used [[Horse|horses]], and hunted mainly [[bison]]. They have become part of popular culture and were one of the last Natives to be taken over. The Plains Indians are the Native group that has become a [[stereotype]] for Native Americans in literature and art. [[File:Henry_Farney_Chie_Spotted_Tail.jpg|alt=|thumb|Spotted tail of the [[Lakota people|Lakota Sioux]]]] ==Tribes == There are two main groups of Plain Indians. One group moved often ([[Nomad|nomadic]]), and the other did not move that much ([[sedentary]]): * [[Nomadic people|Nomadic]] tribes: [[Arapaho]], [[Assiniboine people|Assiniboine]], [[Blackfoot Confederacy|Blackfoot]], [[Cheyenne]], [[Comanche]], [[Crow Nation|Crow]], [[Gros Ventre]], [[Kiowa]], [[Lipan Apache people|Lipan]], [[Plains Apache]] (or [[Kiowa Apache]]), [[Cree|Plains Cree]], [[Saulteaux|Plains Ojibwe]] (or Saulteaux), [[Tsuu T'ina Nation|Sarsi]] (or Sarcee, Tsuutʼina Nation), [[Nakoda (Stoney)]], [[Sioux]] ([[Lakota]], [[Dakota]], and [[Nakota]]) and [[Tonkawa]]. * Sedentary tribes: [[Arikara]], [[Hidatsa]], [[Iowa people|Iowa]], [[Kaw people|Kaw (or Kansa)]], [[Kichai people|Kitsai]], [[Mandan]], [[Missouria]], [[Omaha (tribe)|Omaha]], [[Osage Nation|Osage]], [[Otoe tribe|Otoe]], [[Pawnee people|Pawnee]], [[Ponca]], [[Quapaw]] (or Arkansas and Ugahxpa), [[Wichita people|Wichita]], and the [[Santee Dakota]], [[Yanktonai]] and [[Yankton Dakota]]. == History == In the early [[Prehistory|Prehistoric]] periods, Native peoples hunted and col