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Mind Map by Lily Eaves, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lily Eaves
almost 6 years ago
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The Plains Indians
- Attitudes towards the land
- They were nomadic
- Viewed as sacred
- The Sioux believed they came
from the land like plants
- Ploughing the land was seen as
ripping their mother's breast
- High places were believed to
be close to the spirit world
- They were nomadic
- Daily life
- Girls learnt to keep the home
- Women cleaned the tipi, prepared food, made clothes and collected water
- Boys learnt to ride horses and hunt Buffalo
- Medicine men and women
were spiritual leaders
- The elderly gave advice to the council and passed on history to the next generations
- Girls learnt to keep the home
- Beliefs and religion
- Circles
- Circle of nature, physically surrounded by the circle
of horizon, the circle of the council, the circle of
birth, there was a circle for everything in Indian life
- Circle of nature, physically surrounded by the circle
of horizon, the circle of the council, the circle of
birth, there was a circle for everything in Indian life
- Visions
- The only way to
contact the spirit world
- To enduce visions one had to have food
and water restrictions, go to sweat lodges,
participate in sundances or menstrate
- The only way to
contact the spirit world
- Dances and ceremonies
- The whole tribe would sometimes need to contact spirits, before
hunting they would dance to call spirits to summon the Buffalo,
they would celebrate war victories with the scalp dance and
young boys would become men in 4 days with the sundance
- The whole tribe would sometimes need to contact spirits, before
hunting they would dance to call spirits to summon the Buffalo,
they would celebrate war victories with the scalp dance and
young boys would become men in 4 days with the sundance
- Circles
- Wars
- Preparing for wars
- Rifles were taken or traded by pawnees
- Horses were used on the front line for
speed and were decorated with handprints
to represent their warrior society
- Shields made from Buffalo
neck were held on the left
arm and were decorated
with magical symbols
- Feathers were used to show previous acts of
bravery: a notch on the black tip was for scalping
but a black tip with a red spot was for killing
- A coupstick was used to touch their enemies
with as it was a sign of bravery
- An amulted was used as medicine granting
spiritual protection to the warrior
- Warriors painted their bodies in
magical colours for protection
- Rifles were taken or traded by pawnees
- Why fight?
- To steel horses, gems, captives and etc
- To join a society or to win a wife
- To get hunting land
- Revenge
- To steel horses, gems, captives and etc
- Warfare
- No formal declaration
- A series of attacks, no
more than 3 times a year
- Warriors didn't leave during the winter
- No formal declaration
- Preparing for wars
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