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Plains Indians
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Plains Indians
Beliefs
- Belief in spirits
- Waken tanka
- The Great spirit
- Created the world
- Created all that lived
- The Great spirit
- Everything had a spirit
- Contacted through visions
- Interpreted by Shaman
- How they got their adult names
- Contact through dances and ceremonies
- Sundance
- Buffalo Dance
- Scalp dance
- Waken tanka
- Circle of Nature
- Circle of their councils
- Circle of their tipis
- Circle of the sun
- Sacred Land
- Came from the earth
- Returned to the earth when died
- Part of the land
- Land was their mother
- High places- close to the spirit world
- The Black Hills
- Where they were saved from the great flood
- Where they took dead for burial
- The Black Hills
- Prepared to fight for it
- Came from the earth
- Belief in spirits
Daily life
- Home
- Tipi
- Could be packed up and transported
- Suitable for all weather conditions
- Tipi
- Family Life
- Men
- Hunting
- Protect horses
- Protection
- Polygamy
- More than one wife
- Made sure all women were taken care of
- If husbands died
- Arranged marraiges
- Women
- Tipi
- Food
- Water
- Making clothing
- Children
- Future
- Learnt skills
- Boys- bows and arrows
- Girls- Maintain a home
- How to ride
- Learnt how to survive
- Old people
- Gave advise
- Bring up the children
- When too old and weak they were left behind
- Men
- Organisation
- (Sioux) Nation
- Not led by an individual
- Consists of many tribes
- Tribes consist of many bands
- Bands
- Influenced by warrior society
- Advised by a council
- Led by a chief
- Wise
- Warrior
- Spirtitual
- Bands
- Tribes consist of many bands
- (Sioux) Nation
- Home
Buffalo
- Hunting
- Creep up on them and shoot arrows
- Disguise in wolf skins
- Stampede
- Trap them in valleys
- Driven off cliffs
- Used horses when discovered
- Creep up on them and shoot arrows
- Uses
- Hide
- Tipi covers
- Clothes
- Carpets
- Mocassins
- Sinews
- Bow strings
- Brain
- Used for tanning
- Tongue
- Eaten
- Hair brush
- Horns
- Headresses
- Teeth
- Necklaces
- Skull
- Religious ceremonies
- Hide
- Hunting
Warfare
- Why fight?
- Protect their way of life
- Stealing horses
- Impress
- Women
- Older warriors
- Increase standing in tribe
- Seek revenge
- Destroy enemies
- Uniform
- War shirt
- Shield
- Feathers
- They were marked in various ways to show success in warfare
- Body painting
- Amulet
- Spiritual
- Scalps decoration
- Lance
- Weapons
- Horse
- Bow and arrow
- Coup stick
- Rifle
- Reached Sioux due to trading
- Shield
- Tomahawk
- Low casualities
- Counting Coup
- If touched with coup stick: disgrace
- Did not believe in killing being brave
- Braver to touch enemy with a coup stick
- More men lost through hunting accidents than war
- Less than 4 lost a year
- Counting Coup
- Scalping
- Took scalps as evidence of their success
- Dried and hung outside tipis
- Trophies
- Believed if warrior lost his scalp, he could not go into afterlife
- So your enemy would not be there to fight you in the afterlife
- Mutilation could also occur
- Leave enemies disabled in the afterlife
- Horses
- Enabled warriors to raid over farther distances
- Wealth counted by no. of horses
- New reason for warfare
- Horsemanship became important in society
- Enemies of Sioux
- White men
- Crows
- Pawnee
- Why fight?
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- GCSE History (Amercian West) Mind Map on Plains Indians, created by ELeanor Turner on 11/04/2016.
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