How do the Lakota Sioux make paint?

Answer 1

For painting faces, bodies, horses and various animal hides the most common type of paint was made using mineral pigments, although some limited use was also made of animal and plant products.

A base for red paints (the Blackfoot tribes produced at least 6 different reds) was crimson and yellowish-red clay. Gray or yellowish clay was baked over hot ashes until it turned red. The Yellowstone river area produced yellow clay. Green came from copper ore, from a coloured mud and from lakeside plants. White clay made white paint - Lewis and Clark named a particular stream White Earth Creek because of this feature. Powdered charcoal or black earth made black paint.

One of the most valued trade items from White traders was vermilion, a bright orange-red pigment which was considered sacred by the Plains tribes.

Among the Crows of Montana, expeditions were regularly sent west to the Three Forks area to collect white clay from a sacred site there. White clay (along with black and red) formed the main element in Crow war paint. On faces, arms, bodies and legs the clay would be painted on in broad patches, then the fingernails would be drawn across these to scrape away stripes of colour to allow the dark skin to show.

The clays were dried and powdered before mixing them with bear- or buffalo-fat and storing them in small leather pouches which could be tied to the belt, the war paint being applied only just before going into battle.

The link below takes you to an image of Crow warriors painted with white clay for battle:

Answer 2

they pee in it ^ is not true we use flowers and natural resources!