The Plainsmen are the people who live in koppies, as tribes, across the Earthsky. They eke out a hunting and gathering existence that is made marginal by the depredations of the Masters to whom they pay a flesh tithe of their children. To gain the salt essential to their survival, Plainsman males must take service in the legions of the Masters
Every Plainsman tribe has an Ancestor House built into or on the rocks of its koppie. An Ancestor House is built from the bones of the dead of a tribe. For a tribe, its Ancestor House is its most sacred space. It is within an Ancestor House that the Elders of a tribe meet in Assembly
Among the Plainsmen, everyone above a certain age is elevated to becoming a tribal Elder. As a sign of this, they will begin to wear a tribe’s salt wealth as beads in their hair and as other ornaments about their persons. To determine tribal matters, Elders meet in an Assembly, most often in their tribe’s Ancestor House
An ‘uba’ is a very long piece of hri cloth that Plainsmen wrap around their heads in a sort of turban and over their faces to protect them from sun and dust
the Earth Mother is one of the primary gods worshipped by the Plainsmen
