Ch 5: North American Plains Flashcards
What is the time of little or no rain called?
Drought
It is a plain or hilly region within the temperate zone that is covered by grasses.
Prairie
What are the dried up plants that break off from their roots and roll across the plains called?
Tumbleweeds
What is the vast area called the “bread basket” of the nation?
Great Plains
What was the most important animal to the Indians of the plains?
Bison
What animal lived in vast underground “towns” across the plains?
Prairie dogs
How did the Indians use all the parts of the bison?
Tell your mom
How did the Blackfoot tribe receive its name?
They wore black moccasins
What does the term “Dakota” mean?
Allies / friends
Who drove the Cheyenne Indians out of the central plains?
Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indians
What Sioux medicine man claimed to have a vision of white soldiers falling into his camp?
Sitting Bull
In what battle did the Sioux Indians defeat General Custer and his soldiers?
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Who were the Plains Indians who formed a confederacy and spread all across the northern plains; name means “allies” or “friends”
Dakota
Which Plains Indians tribe was named for their black moccasins?
Blackfoot
Which Plains Indians tribes were once skilled in pottery making and cloth weaving?
Sioux and Cheyenne
