Did the Sioux tribe survived by hunting farming herding or farming?

Answer 1

The Sioux Indians are actually broken up into 3 different groups: the Dakota, the Lakota, and the Nakota. Most of them were not farmers or hunters, but led a nomadic life. I know for sure that the Lakota followed their main source of food around, the buffalo.

Answer 2

Sioux Indians were hunters. heres more info

Sioux, or Dakota, Indians, were a large tribe of Indians, who were found by the French, in 1640, near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The Algonquiens called them Nadowessioux, later they came to be called Sioux. They occupied the vast domain extending from the Arkansas River, in the south, to the western tributary of Lake Winnipeg, in the north, and westward to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. They have been classed into four divisions - namely, the Winnebagoes, who inhabited the country between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, among the Algonquians; the Assiniboines, or Sioux proper (the most northerly of the nation) ; the Minnetaree group, in Minnesota; and the Southern Sioux, who lived in the country between the Arkansas and Platte rivers, and whose hunting-grounds extended to the Rocky Mountains.

Answer 3

Sioux is not the name of a single tribe, but many related tribes. Only some of these were nomadic hunters.

The western division of the Sioux were called Teton or Lakota Sioux; they were the Oglala, Minneconjou, Brule, Two Kettle, No Bows, Hunkpapa and Blackfoot Sioux tribes. They lived on the Great Plains (which is the meaning of Teton) and could only survive by hunting large game animals such as antelope, deer and buffalo. They did not plant any crops, but often gathered wild plant foods.

The central Division were called Yankton or Nakota and they were made up of the Yankton and Yanktonai tribes.

The eastern division were the Santee or Dakota Sioux, made up of the Mdewakanton, Wahpekute, Wahpeton and Sisseton tribes. Their homes were bark-covered longhouses.

The Yankton division lived on the edge of the plains and hunted only occasionally, growing some crops; the Santee division were much more agricultural and more like the woodlands tribes.

All three divisions spoke dialects of the same language.

Answer 4

Yes. the East coast Sioux tribe's main source of food was fish. East coast Sioux lived among rivers and was often called river people.

Answer 5

The Sioux Indians would be considered a hunter and gatherer society.

Answer 6

the teton Sioux Indians were hunters but traded with the arikara Indians

Answer 7

they did all three. they hunted for bison, elk, deer and porcupine. they farmed berries and they fished in Dakota rivers

Answer 8

The Sioux did hunt. But I'm not sure if they fished.

Answer 9

they are fishers hunters and farmers