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Sioux Indians

Once a nomadic tribe but forced north from the upper Mississippi area, the Sioux tribe ended up in the black hills of South Dakota. Lakota, Dakota or Nakota, this tribe played a big part in America's early western history.

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What did the Indians wear for special occasions?

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For exceptional events, Indians frequently pick customary and elaborate clothing that mirrors the rich social variety of the country. One famous decision for ladies on exceptional events is the lehenga choli. The lehenga choli is a customary Indian outfit that comprises of an erupted skirt (lehenga), a fitted pullover (choli), and a dupatta (scarf).

How do you say Sioux in Navajo language?

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The Navajo use the same terms to mean both the Sioux and the Comanche:

naałani or anaałani

naa means enemies, łani means "many"

What did the Plains Indian make?

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Hunting: Bows and arrows, spears, knives, hide scrapers, drums Transportation: Birchbark canoes, bull boats, toboggans,

What is 'peace' in the Sioux language?

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In Lakota the word for peace is wolakhota; an older term is wookhiye.

Sioux Indian housing?

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The plains Sioux Indians lived in tipis made out of buffalo hides and wooden poles. They are 15 - 20 feet in diameter. The tipis have flaps on the top that could be opened and closed to account for fires inside the tipi and for bad weather. They also contained hooks on the insides to hang weapons, tools and supplies. They relied on tipis for their housing since they're existence was centered around buffalo. They were a migratory tribe based on the presence of buffalo, and tipis were quick and easy to take down and put up. But, the Sioux on the east coast lived in places other than Tipis.

Why did the Indians used buffalo hide shields for?

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The plains Native Americans did not build their homes out of earth, but did use hides to make teepee's. They were a nomadic people who followed the herds and moved to warmer areas in the winter months.

What animals Sioux Indians had?

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Well to answer this question all you have to do is ask yourself how does plants help people today, it is the same. Now how the Sioux and other tribes knew which plants to get would be by watching animals, animals knew which plants to eat and which plants not to eat. Animals even know which plants to eat in order to get better if they are sick.

Did women of the Sioux tribe work?

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The Sioux were a particarcal society, meaning that the men were mostly in charge of running how the society lived. In particarcal societies, the job of hunting went to men, while the women tended to the settlements.

How would you describe the Sioux Nation flag?

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The Sioux were never a single tribe but a collection of 7 related tribal groups:

  1. Mdewakanton
  2. Wahpekute
  3. Wahpeton
  4. Sisseton
  5. Yankton (Ihanktonwan)
  6. Yanktonai
  7. Teton

The largest of these (and the most well-known) were the Teton Sioux, subdivided into the Oglala, Brule, Minneconjou, Two Kettle, Hunkpapa, Sans Arcs and Blackfoot Sioux.

The idea that any of these groups had any kind of tribal symbol is ridiculous; only in very recent times have the different native American groups designed flags for themselves with a wide range of traditional symbols incorporated. None of these flags existed during the 19th century and most have only been used since the 1960s.

The link below takes you to an image of the modern Oglala Sioux flag, featuring a camp circle of tipis:

Did the Sioux tribe have horses?

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Yes, the Sioux tribe did have horses. They, like the Nez Perce had Appaloosas and Paints.

Did the Sioux Farm?

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Nope the Sioux did not farm Because the women got fruit for the people of the Sioux nation.

Did Sioux Indians put art on their tipi's?

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No tribe put "art" on their tipis, since that word is used to describe purely decorative painting or drawing.

Medicine lodges and the lodges of important warriors or chiefs were painted with designs that had either sacred and spiritual significance or indicated the war deeds of the warrior who lived there, so it was far more than simply art.

Very few Lakota Sioux tipis were painted in this way - most were left plain. Some had other forms of embelishment, such as the medicine lodge of Slow Bull, which had small locks of hair sewn to the cover.

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How did Sioux tribe make their homes?

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The Oglala Sioux tribe lived in the Great Plains of North America. They hunted the buffalo, which was a source of food, shelter, and clothing for these people. The people were migratory. A famous Oglala Sioux was Black Elk. Today, people from this tribe live on Pine Ridge Reservation in the Black Hills.

What languages were spoken by Caddo Indians?

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The Caddo tribe were speakers of a southern branch of the Caddoan language family; speakers of languages belonging to the northern branch were the Pawnees, Arikaras, Kitsai and Wichita.

A few words in the Caddo or Hasinai language, which today is close to extinction, are:

e'nah....................mother

ea'titi....................older sister

neesh...................moon

kai'acooh..............drum

keehseeh..............maize (Indian corn)

chawee.................bow

deetsi...................dog

do'ooh..................rabbit

ta'sha...................wolf

What is the Seneca Indians' climate?

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The seneca climate was harsh and deadly.in the summer they had to deal with extreme heat that killed most of the crops.The winter was even worse.It was super cold and made it very hard for them to survive the cold harsh winter.Sadly many indians did die to the winter some survived to live another day.

What happened to George Custers sword from the Little Big Horn?

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George Armstrong Custer was armed with two British Bulldog pistols for his personal sidearms and also carried a Remington long range hunting rifle across his saddle pommel. After the fighting ended at last stand hill the Indians stripped and mulitated the dead, taking EVERYTHING. Few documented U.S. cavalry weapons from Custer's five companys survive today. Nothing of Custer's.

How do you say mountain in the Sioux language?

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In Lakota the word for mountain is he or heakantu.

How do you say chance in the oglala Sioux language?

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There is no simple word meaning "chance" but several expressions:

  • wanun ...............by mistake, by chance
  • wanuntakshni......accidentally, by chance
  • tokheshkhe.........by some chance
  • okini..................possibly, there is a chance
  • owekish.............might, possibly, there is a chance
  • shehanl esh........here's a chance for somebody (to succeed)
  • sehingle kinhan..........if it should chance to be

What did the Sioux tribe wear?

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This varies among the many Sioux nation tribes.

Common things would include a medicine wheel pendant, Sea shells among the east coast tribe, beads of many sorts, feathers (the eagle feather is the main feather which represents the great spirit, however the USA govt has outlawed any Sioux from owning an eagle feather unless they are part of a federally recognized tribe. The fine for a Sioux owning an eagle feather today can reach $25,000).

Clothing included moccasin shoes, leather, and animal skin of various sorts.

What do the Sioux tribe eat now?

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Yes in store bought, but before supermarkets came they eat deer, elk, and buffalo. I don't think they ate bear from what I know. Bears were our ancestors that we don't eat them, they were some sort of evil or set to be something bad. Dog was another source only because meat became scarce in those days. When settlers drove our herd away.

How did Sioux Indians get their individual names?

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Among most native American groups, name-giving was a complex and important part of an individual's identity that was very different to modern English or American naming.

A young child might first be given an "everyday" name by a male relative such as an uncle or grandfather, or by a medicine man. This name might be one previously carried by a long-ago famous warrior, as a way of respecting and remembering the name. The family might also give the child a pet name known only to close family and friends.

As the child grew up, another name might replace the original "everyday name" - sometimes a boy would be given his own father's name (as in the case of Crazy Horse), when the father would take on an alternate name.

Sometimes, if a warrior was involved in some specially famous war or religious exploit, he might take on another name to commemorate that deed. Sacred visions would often include instructions about particular ways for warriors to apply their war paint and this might lead to a change of name - an example being "Rain-in the-Face", referring to his face paint.

Some names were simply a reference to some obvious physical characteristic, such as "Touch the Clouds" (who was extremely tall).

Even women might have an everyday name that was taken from a long-ago warrior, so it was not unusual for Lakota women to be called names like "Takes the Shield", "Kills Plenty" or "Takes the Picketed Horse", even when they had done nothing like that themselves.

General Custer turned down a weapon?

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Yes. General Terry offered him a battery of six Gatling Guns. Custer refused them on the grounds that they would slow him, and they would have. They were heavy and mounted on an artillery carriage. Thirty years later, gas-operated machine guns were available which could be packed on the back of a cavalry horse, and these were used in the Russo-Japanese War. The Gatling Guns could have prevented Custer's Last Stand because the hostiles knew better than to attack them, but of course Custer did not foresee such an outcome when he turned down command of these weapons.

What did Sioux do with their pottery?

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None of the Plains tribes made any pottery since it was too heavy for nomadic people to transport easily and it was too easily broken in transit. The "Village Tribes" of the Upper Missouri (Mandans, Hidatsas and Arickaras) made pottery vessels, but they lived in semi-permanent villages so transport was not an issue.

The various Sioux tribes used containers of rawhide called parfleches, which were very lightweight. When traders made contact the Sioux began to obtain metal cooking-pots from them but they did not use pottery of any kind.

Was Custer a general or a colonel?

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Custer was a colonel, although during the Civil War he attained the rank of a brevet general. Brevet means a temporary promotion to general. Although Custer kept his brevet rank for a time after the war, it was later taken away from him, and he was a colonel when he died. [If Custer had been a general at Little Big Horn he would have commanded more than one regiment.]

What were the term of the second treaty of fort Laramie Why did it fail?

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Suck a Chubby and his crew came up with the terms, they terms were that all native Americans were able to live on there own land in the black hills South Dakota. Suck a Chubby and Sacajawea fought over it.