Stretching across Alberta, Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba is a windswept prairie. Three major rivers flow through the plains - the Bow, Assiniboine and the South Saskatchewan. The Plains peoples made this area their home, travelling in their quest for food, searching for the great herds of buffalo that they depended on for life.
Peoples of the Plains include:
- Assiniboine (Nakoda)
- Siksika (Blackfoot)
- Kainai (Blood)
- A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
- Pikuni (Peigan)
- Nehiyauak (Plains Cree)
- T'suu T'ina (Sarcee)
The peoples travelled in small groups except when they came together for communal hunts or ceremonies. Tipis were the ideal homes-they were easy to transport from place to place in the spring and summer seasons. Women made, owned and set up the tipis. They were anchored to the ground with sturdy wooden pegs and rocks to keep them from blowing over in strong praire winds.
The Plains peoples depended on the buffalo, or "bison," to provide them with food, clothing, housing, weapons, fuel, transportation, containers and tools. The people used every part of the great animal, and at one time, more than fifty million buffalo roamed the Plains of North America. When the buffalo disappeared (slaughtered by the white man) so did the Plains peoples way of life.
Creation story: http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00875/text/BlackfootC.htm
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