What tools did the santee Sioux tribe use?

Answer 1

Lakota, Nakota and Dakota women used the same kinds of tools as all the neighbouring tribes for digging wild roots, preparing food and treating hides.

Hide scrapers (wahintka in Lakota) were made from buffalo bone or elk antler with a flint or iron blade attached using buffalo sinew; this tool was used to scrape the hair and fatty tissue from deer, antelope, elk and buffalo hides.

"Berry mashers" (ichashki or ihunnichatha) were small stone-headed hammers used for pounding dried meat with fat and berries to make pemmican, a food stuff that would remain edible for many months.

Digging sticks (hunphe) were sticks hardened and sharpened at one end, used for digging wild turnips and other roots.

An awl (thahinshpa) of deer bone or iron was used to punch holes in leather for sewing; needles were not needed since the dampened sinew thread was left dry and hard at one end which acted as its own needle.

Answer 2

Bows and arrows