Plains tribes
Grassland indigenous peoples
Plains tribes refers to the Indigenous peoples of North America's Great Plains—the vast grassland region stretching from Canada to Texas between the Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains.
These nations, including the Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Blackfoot, developed distinctive cultures centered on buffalo hunting, horsemanship, and mobile dwellings like tipis.
The term groups diverse peoples by geography rather than shared language or ancestry.
- winter countsNative American year records
- LakotaWestern Sioux people
- tipiConical hide dwelling
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
counting coup · war bonnet · buffalo hunting · buffalo robe · travois · Indian Removal Act · warrior societies · dog soldiers · earth lodge · bow · Black Hills · pemmican · reservation system · hide · Missouri River · hunting grounds · beadwork · horse
Plains tribesHopi
Pueblo people of Arizona
Zuni · Ancestral Puebloans · Mandan · mound builders · Pawnee
Plains tribesInuit
Arctic indigenous people
coastal tribes · Haida · Iroquois Confederacy · desert tribes · Seminole