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Mind Map by Patrick West, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Patrick West
almost 8 years ago
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Plains Indians #1
- Buffalo
- Women and children butchered it.
- Stampeded a herd into valleys, etc.
- Hunted on foot before horses
- Used all of the buffalo
- Horns = head-dresses, cutlery
- Tanned hide = clothes, tipi covers
- Fur = blankets, saddles
- Horns = head-dresses, cutlery
- Raw parts (kidney, liver, brain) eaten; flesh boiled
- Preserved strips left to dry in the sun called jerky for winter
- Women and children butchered it.
- Religion and Spirits
- Circles were important
- Sun, moon, tipis, birds nests
- Villages were circles of
tipis
- Sun, moon, tipis, birds nests
- One great spirit
- Called "Wakan Tanka" by Sioux
- Rules over all living
things
- Called "Wakan Tanka" by Sioux
- Sacred land - especially high ground
- Black Hills of Dakota - sacred to Sioux
- Buried dead tribe members here
- Medicine men came for guidance
- Buried dead tribe members here
- Black Hills of Dakota - sacred to Sioux
- Worked with the power of nature, respected it
- Nature cannot be bought/sold,
mother
- Nature cannot be bought/sold,
mother
- Dances were important
- Whole tribes together
- Ceremonies led by medicine men
- Sun Dance, Buffalo Dance
- Sun Dance, Buffalo Dance
- Whole tribes together
- Visions
- Tortured themselves
- Told visions to medicine men in "sweat
lodges"
- Fasting and praying for
days
- Contact to the spirit world
- Children renamed after ceremony where
they had their first vision
- Tortured themselves
- Circles were important
- Horses
- Allowed Indians to
challenge white settlers
and their technology
- Bred by Spanish settlers in 1600s
- Pueblo Indians drove
Spanish out and captured
their horses in 1640
- Pueblo Indians drove
Spanish out and captured
their horses in 1640
- Used to hunt buffalo, move about
the Plains, in war and for fun
- Crow tribe had 2 horses per person
- In 1820, wealth measured in horses
- Allowed Indians to
challenge white settlers
and their technology
- Medicine Men
- Could contact any spirit
- Interpreted visions
- Advised chiefs
of spirits
messages
- Geronimo (Apache
medicine man
- Helped Indians choose
and prepare herbs for
medicine
- Said Indians had as much
faith in prayer as medicine
- Helped Indians choose
and prepare herbs for
medicine
- Treated broken limbs and
wounds from war; bruises
from hunting; fever from
weather
- Worked with spirits not against them, respect
- Encouraged men to carry medicine bags
- Could contact any spirit
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