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Featured Article: Iowa Indians

Iowa Indians were a small Plains tribe of the United States. See more »

Arapaho Indians

Arapaho uh RAP uh hoh, Indians, are a tribe who once hunted on the Great Plains of North America.

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Arikara Indians

Arikara uh RIHK uh ruh, Indians, are a tribe that once lived in villages along the Missouri River.

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Assiniboine Indians

Assiniboine uh SIHN uh boyn, Indians, are a large Plains tribe who live in parts of Canada and the United States.

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Blackfeet Indians

Blackfeet Indians lived on the Great Plains of the United States and Canada.

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Caddo Indians

Caddo KAD oh, Indians formed a group of allied tribes that once lived in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas.

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Cheyenne Indians

Cheyenne Indians are a group of American Indians separated geographically into two groups, the Northern Cheyenne and the Southern Cheyenne.

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Comanche Indians

Comanche, kuh MAN chee, Indians were a southern Plains tribe that hunted buffalo from Nebraska to northern Mexico.

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Crow Indians

Crow Indians are a tribe of the northern Great Plains of the United States.

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Gros Ventre Indians

Gros Ventre Indians make up two tribes of Plains Indians.

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Iowa Indians

Iowa Indians were a small Plains tribe of the United States.

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Kansa Indians

Kansa, KAN saw, Indians, or Kaw Indians, were a Plains tribe who lived along the Kansas River in eastern Kansas.

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Kiowa Indians

Kiowa, KY uh wuh, Indians are a tribe that lives largely in Oklahoma and elsewhere in the Southwestern United States.

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Mandan Indians

Mandan Indians are a tribe that has lived in western North Dakota, along the Missouri River, for more than 500 years.

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Omaha Indians

Omaha Indians live mainly in northeast Nebraska.

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Osage Indians

Osage Indians, OH sayj, once gathered food and hunted buffalo throughout a vast region of what are now Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

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Pawnee Indians

Pawnee Indians, paw NEE, are a tribe that lives largely in the Pawnee, Oklahoma, area.

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Sioux Indians

Sioux, soo, Indians traditionally lived throughout the northern plains of North America.

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