Sioux Indians

The horses were already there for the indians.

The Sioux Indians were nomadic people that typically followed the buffalo. This assured them that there would be food and clothing wherever they traveled. They traveled by foot until the Spanish introduced them to horses in the 1500â??s.

Sioux braves gained great honor in taking part in warfare. Counting coup (the touching of an enemy) was a honorable achievement. It wasn't the killing of an enemy, but getting so close to him that he could touch him which was proof of his bravery. Also warfare was for gaining horses and food for wealth and staying alive. Also, one had to protect his family and village against raiding enemy tribes. So, that is why Sioux warriors took part in warfare.

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The Battle of the Little Big Horn ended on July 26, 1876. The battle lasted for only one day and took place between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the US Army.

The valley of the Little Bighorn River, in Montana.

Lakota weapons were just the same as those of their neighbours on the Great Plains, the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crows, Blackfoot and others - the differences were in decoration and sometimes the types of materials used.

Missile weapons were limited to bows and arrows, with spears, clubs, knives and hatchets for hand-to-hand fighting. Circular hide shields were often carried; these were generally quite small and usually between 17 and 23 inches across (43 to 59 cms).

The arrival of White traders made metal arrowheads, knife blades and axes available; knife blades were sometimes set in a large wooden handle to make a fearsome war club. Guns of various types were also obtained in trade, though often with very limited supplies of ammunition.

Lakota warriors would often carry "non-weapons", including coup sticks, crooked lances and feathered staffs which had religious, status and warrior society significance. Simply striking an enemy ("counting coup") with a decorated stick was considered more of an achievement than killing him from a distance, since he was still in a position to fight back.

The links below take you to images of Lakota weapons:

Occasionally different Chinook groups would fight wars against each other, or against other Northwest Coastal tribes.

The general term for the wars with the Indians in the West is referred to as the Plains Indians Wars. The US Army did recognize this as a war by issuing the Indiand War Campaign Medal, but I'm not sure what period of serviceit included. In 1876, the last serious Sioux warerupted, when the Dakota gold rush penetrated the Black Hills. This lead to the battle of Little Big Horn.

The Sioux nation was originally called the Dakota. Eventually the Dakota broke off into 3 groups known as Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota.

The East coast Sioux tribes came from the Nakota tribe. The East coast Sioux tribes had two main Nations known as the Saponi and the Catawba.

The name Sioux refers to all tribes which spoke of the Siouan language (the variations of this language varies from tribe to tribe).

One of the most famous Sioux groups was known as the Lakota.

The Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, Saponi, and Catawba all was made up of many other tribes. It is known that some of the Creek Indians even spoke a form of the Siouan language.

The actual Cheyenne tribe split from other Algonquin speaking nations located in the Great Lakes region around 1500 AD and began migrating west. They settled eventually in the Dakotas, and became a unified tribe in the early 19th century.

Wahanpi is a specific type of soup made by the Teton Lakota, consisting of buffalo meat, wild turnips and blo(native wild potato). It is now used generally for any soup, broth or stew. You say wah-hon-pee (the hon part is nasal, so said through your nose).

The Mohawk were known for their excellence in mask carving. This was considered a sacred endeavor. They also excelled in their intricate beadwork ,particularly in wampum belts which usually told the story of a person's family. The more time consuming and difficult was the quill work done. The quills had to be harvested and flattened and then woven.

North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana and Wyoming.

Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was the on-the-ground leader of the American horse-soldiers at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June of 1876. Typically overlooked in this battle is the fact that Custer was officially subordinate to Brigadier General Alfred Terry, who commanded one of three columns closing in on the Native encampment from different directions. On the fateful day of the battle, Custer's decision to act on his own, rather than awaiting Terry's arrival, led to the Native victory over Custer's command.

Among the Sioux, these were some of the more famous:

Red Cloud

Crazy Horse

Sitting Bull

Buffalo Hump

Black Elk

Big Foot

White Bull

Gall

Bloody Knife

Crow Dog

Rain in the Face

Mary Good Road

Russell Means

Little Hawk

Touch The Clouds

Rattling Blanket Woman

American Horse

Red Horse

Lone Horn

Spotted Tail

Like Christianity, Islam permits fighting in self-defense, in defense of religion, or on the part of those who have been expelled forcibly from their homes. It lays down strict rules of combat that include prohibitions against harming civilians and against destroying crops, trees and livestock. As Muslims see it, injustice would be triumphant in the world if good people were not prepared to risk their lives in a righteous cause. One reads in the Qur'an: "Fight in the cause of God against those who fight you, but do not transgress limits. God does not love transgressors." (Qur'an 2:190) "If they seek peace, then you seek peace. And trust in God for He is the One that hears and konws all things." (Qur'an 8:61) War is therefore the last resort, and is subject to the rigorous conditions laid down by the sacred law. The often misunderstood and overused term jihad literally means "struggle" and not "holy war" (a term not found anywhere in the Qur'an). Jihad, as an Islamic concept, can be on a personal level - inner struggle against evil within oneself; struggle for decency and goodness on the social level; and struggle on the battlefield, if and when necessary. The term Holy War was never mentioned in The Quran. For further explanation see:

"What are the ethics of war in Islam?"

Everything;every part of the buffalo was used by the Great

Plains Indians who hunted them. Clothing, shelter, food, and religious objects were made from the buffalo.

The Siouan language family spreads from the Southeastern US all the way to the Great Plains, with most of the diversity being concentrated in the Plains area.

no they never did no they never did I don't believe any Sioux ever lived in what is known today as Indiana, but if 'Indiana' is meant to be 'Indians' then yes, Sioux people still exist. They have recently withdrawn from treaties made with the government to form their own country in parts of the North and South Dakota, Montana, and Nebraska. www.republicoflakotah.com

The Oglala were native of the Teton (Lakota) tribes of the Sioux tribes. As such they adhered to the same idealisms as the greater Sioux nation. They understood there to be a Creator and many other forces to be revered. The Sioux were very sure that they could not (or should not) understand the gods. Instead they spent a majority of their worship in honoring "Wakan Tanka."

Wakan was a belief that everything in life (humans, animals, plants, rivers, oceans, lands, and the universe) were connected and one as a whole. It was believed that all life came from Mother Earth. This led to a strong sense of stewardship over animals and lands. Everything was considered family and sacred.

The concept of Wakan was symbolized by the circle. The circle represented the eternity and continuous flow of the universe. The Sioux also revered the number four. They believed the great Creator created everything in fours. For example... Time was split into day, night, lunar, and solar. Life was split into infanthood, childhood, adulthood, and old age. Seven was also a sacred number.

An important ideal is also that of "the song." The Sioux believed that each part of the universe hid a section of the song of creation. It was in the Black Hills that it was said one could hear the entire song of creation. The Black Hills also was the resting place for the souls of the dead.

A native tradition of hoops and twigs woven with a web. Its believed that it traps nightmares in the web until they perish in the first light of day and the good dreams floating in the nights air pass through the web and flow down the dangling feathers to the sleeper below