USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Women often made woven baskets for gathering food, nets of fibers for fishing and hunting rabbits, and pottery out of natural materials. Men made grinding stones, bows and arrows, knives and shields, also out of natural materials.

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: -Knives, bows and arrows, tomahawks, gunstock war clubs, and guns. When the Europeans came they found the Native Americans. The Native Americans thought the Europeans had nice weapons like the following: steel knives, swords, fire-belching arquebus and cannons.

Detailed explanation-4: -The tools of the Great Basin Indians were typical of hunting and gathering cultures: the bow and arrow, stone knife, basket, net, and grinding stone for processing seeds. They used sharp digging sticks to work the soil and to dig for edible roots.