The Plains Indians diet was mostly meat. They also ate many wild fruits, nuts, and berries, wild turnips, potatoes, and other roots. They added them to soups. Wild herbs were picked and use for flavoring and for medicines. Meat was not easy for the Lakota to get. Many days could pass before they could get fresh meat. Soup was a favorite food of the plains Indians. to make soup meat , bones, and water were put into a clean animal stomach or blabber. Then clean stones were heated in a fire. They got very hot. Next they put the stones into the water. That made the water boil. It got hot and cooked the meat and