When1: 500
When2: 1600
Who: Plains Indian
What: culture
Where: USA
Detail: In north-central USA were Apache, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Cree, Creek, Crow, Dakota, Omaha, Pawnee, Shawnee, Shoshoni, Sioux, and Ute. Plains Indians hunted bison and grew beans, squash, and maize in river valleys. Pemmican was lard beaten with berries, packed in tanned leather parfleche pouch. People had wood frame houses covered with earth, with smoke holes in center, up to 20 meters wide or bison-leather teepees.
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