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   There are many tribes in the Western Plains region. Most of them have the same facts. The Cheyenne tribe had quite a few things that weren't like any other tribe. Here is one really interesting one.
Cheyenne women took part in hunting with the men. They drove the buffalo towards the men, who shot them with their longbows.
   Cheyenne artists were famous for their fine quill embroidery, beadwork, pipestone caving, and pottery. For each piece of art, there is a description of it.
  Quill Embroidery
   Quillwork involved softening and dying stiff porcupine quills and weaving them onto leather or birchbark.
   Beadwork
    Beads were carved from shells, coral, turquoise and other stones, copper and silver, wood, amber, ivory, and animal bones, horns and teeth. They were sewn or pasted onto the fabric, or the material you would use. It took Native Americans days to finish the beadwork. In the end, the beadwork looked amazingly professional.
   Pipestone Carving
    Common native pipe-making traditions included a small one-piece stone and ceramic pipes of the Iroquois and Cherokee tribes, wood and antler pipes of the Southwestern Indians, and the post-Columbian tomahawk pipes with a metal pipe bowl and hatchet on opposite ends of the stem.
    Pottery
     The potters pick out their clay, and they soak it to separate out small twigs, pebbles, and other things in the clay. After it is removed, the clay is dried, ground, tempered, and is stored, or used. Water s added to the hard clay and it is smoothed to remove air pockets that might explode while being fired. There are different techniques that different potters use, The finished piece is dried until it is like leather. It is decorated, and then it is fired.
      The food they ate was like any other Native American. They were originally farming people. Women harvested corn, squash, potatoes, and beans. They had fruits, and nuts. They ate buffalo, and smaller game such as birds, and rabbits. They Had many different varieties of food.
        They have a traditional dance called the Sun Dance. It is a religious ceremony practiced by Native Americans.
       Summers, and winters were HOT and FREEZING! In summers, it was more than 100 degrees. In winters, it could drop 40 degrees below zero with heavy snows. The Western Plains was so dry that when it rained, it flooded.
       In entertainment, they loved storytelling, music, and dance. They liked to battle against other Plains Indian tribes. Even though people died, it was still a fun game to them.
      Here are some interesting facts.
    Cheyenne women were in charge of the home.
    They are nomads. Nomads are people who travel. They were only nomads because they followed buffalo. They traveled using horses, and dog travois. There were other ways to travel too.
       Leaders originally wore tall feather headdresses.
       Cheyenne tribes regularly traded with other great plains tribes.
   Here is the Central Cheyenne ritual was the Sun Dance.
   Males could only participate in ceremonies while women stayed in the tipis.

   This is my researched information.