FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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built igloos to live in
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caught fish for food
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followed herds of buffalo
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Kiowa Indians moved around to follow buffalo herds before Euro-American settlers came to the area that became Kansas and Colorado. In this quote from around 1900, a Kiowa Indian woman described what the buffalo meant to her people: “Everything the Kiowas had came from the buffalo.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Plains Indians had more than 150 different uses for the various bison parts. The bison provided them with meat for food, hides for clothing and shelter, and horns and bones for tools. They would even use the bladder to hold water. For the Plains Indians, bison equaled survival.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Critical to their survival, bison not only provided American Indians with food, shelter and tools, but a model on how to live. To American Indians, bison also represent their spirit and remind them of how their lives were once lived, free and in harmony with nature.
Detailed explanation-4: -These include the Arapaho, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda (Stoney), and Tonkawa.