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American West: Plains Indians
- Tipi
- Taken up and down within 10 minutes
- Insulating
- Flaps to let out smoke and heat in summer
- Poles of Tipi used to join Tipi to horses to drag everything along
- Beliefs about warfare
- Reasons
- To steal horses
- Seek revenge
- Destroy their enemies
- Not afraid to run away
- Weapons
- Lance
- Shield
- Bow and arrow
- Rifle
- Warfare
- Counting coup
- Taking scalps
- Wearing feathers
- Buffalo
- Bladders used as food bags
- Nomadic
- Hide used for clothing and covering tips of Tipis
- Dried Buffalo dung = fuel
- Dried Buffalo meat stored to be used by Indians in winter
- The Sioux
- Marraige
- Polygamy practiced
- Women cared for - often more women than men
- Lots of children for future generations
- Often married between 12-15
- Men & women
- Men hunt buffalo and care for horses
- Women maintenance of Tipis
- Women care for children, cook, gather food and firewood
- Women made various things e.g. clothes and baskets
- Old People
- Respected, wise and experienced
- Sometimes became chiefs or council members
- When too old and slowed down band, left behind by group
- Cultures & traditions
- Counting Coup
- Scalping
- Chiefs & council
- Indian councils made up of men who were old and experienced or brave
- Chief was elected member of council
- Chief would make decisions
- Chief would hold meetings in which they would smoke
- Smoking thought to be sacred, bring them closer to spirits
- Children
- Respected members of the Sioux
- Learned by copying adults
- Rarely punished
- Men expected to join warrior society
- The Sioux: Religion
- Wakan Tanka
- Spirit
- Created the world and all that lives
- Spirits
- Believed everything was alive
- Spirits were their Gods who they worshipped and gave offerings to
- Circles
- Symbolic
- Everything to them was circular
- Sat in circles, making them closer to the spirits
- Sacred land
- Believed land was their mother
- Born from the land
- Go back to land when they die
- Black Hills sacred because of story of creation
- Visions
- Interpret by the Medicine Man
- How they contacted spirits