The Plains Indians (Grades 2-3)

¹     The grasslands in our country are part of the Plains area. Two hundred years ago there were 150,000 people and 60 million buffalo in this area!

²     A few of the Native Americans here stayed near the rivers and farmed. They lived in earth lodges.

³     Most of the Indians, though, were called nomads. That meant they were people who moved around a lot. They used two poles covered with rawhide and called it a travois. The travois carried all their things.

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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 2 to 3
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	4.81

	challenging words:		country, shaggy, tepees, poles, stayed, lived, part, hides, aside, government, shoulder, flap, million, earth, area, buffalo
	content words:		Native Americans

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