The Plains Indians had no permanent home. They moved according to their need for food and supplies, specifically in search of buffalo.

Plains Indian are the native American tribes and first nation band government who have traditionally lived on the greater Interior Plains in North America. Their historic nomadic culture and development of equestrian culture and resistance to domination by the government and military forces of Canada and the United States have transformed them and their culture into an archetype in literature and art for American Indian everywhere.

They are known as divided in two groups: the first became a fully nomadic horse culture during 18th and 19th centuries, following the vast herds of buffalo, although some tribes occasionally engaged in agriculture.

Otherwise the second group was a semi - sedentary and in addition to hunting buffalo they used to live in villages and actively traded with other tribes.

They farmed corn, hunted and gathered, establishing different lifestyles and healthy diets, they planted three sisters-beans, squash and corn when they arrived from the Southwest around 900 CE

Women farmed and gathered while many men continued to hunt which became the most dominant practice when a drought struck in the 100s. They huntes large animals lie buffalos early as the 12.000 BCE.