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Bookmark or Share- Plains Indians - World History EncyclopediaThe Plains Indians (also known as Native Americans of the Plains and Prairie, Indigenous Peoples of the Great Plains) are the original inhabitants of the western plains of North America, now part of the United States and Canada.
- Great Plains - New World EncyclopediaThe Great Plains are the westernmost portion of the vast North American Interior Plains, which extend east to the Appalachian Plateau. The region is a high plateau that ranges from an altitude at the base of the Rocky Mountains of 5,000 to 6,000 feet (1,500 to 1,800 m) to 1,500 feet at the eastern edge.
- Great Plains | Map, Facts, Definition, Climate, & Cities - BritannicaGreat Plains, major physiographic province of North America. The Great Plains lie between the Rio Grande in the south and the delta of the Mackenzie River at the Arctic Ocean in the north and between the Interior Lowland and the Canadian Shield on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the west.
- Great Plains - WikipediaThe Great Plains are the westernmost portion of the vast North American Interior Plains, which extend east to the Appalachian Plateau. The United States Geological Survey divides the Great Plains in the United States into ten physiographic subdivisions: Central Texas section – central Texas.
- Plains Indian | History, Culture, Art, Facts, Map, & Tribes - BritannicaPlains Indian, member of any of the Native American peoples inhabiting the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. Perhaps because they were among the last indigenous peoples to be conquered in North America, the tribes of the Great Plains are often regarded in popular culture as the archetypical American Indian.
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