Plains Indian

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Plains Indian

Indian peoples who inhabit, or formerly inhabited, the North American Great Plains, which is a vast grassland between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and from present-day provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada through the present-day state of Texas in the United States. The area is drained principally by the Missouri and Mississippi rivers; the valleys of this watershed are the most reliable sites from which to obtain fresh water, wood, and most plant foods.

Plains

Plains Indians

Buffalo Indian

Indian, Plains

Hidatsa

Sioux

Comanche

Gros Ventre

Assiniboin

Crow

Kiowa

Oto

Plains Cree

Arapaho

Mandan

Osage

Arikara

Cheyenne

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