Lifestyles of the Native Americans
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- Created on: 07-02-17 16:03
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- Lifestyles of the Native Americans
- The Plains Indians relied on the Buffalo
- Millions of buffalo grazed on the Plains int he days before mass slaughter of the 1870's
- Many of the Plain Indians were nomadic hunter gathers
- They followed the buffalo on its seasonal migrations
- Uses of the Buffalo; Bones-tools and weapons,Tongue-hairbrush, Lining of intestine-water sack, blood-paintings,fat-food,poop-smoke it,skin-clothes and tipi
- Ways they would prepare for a Buffalo hunt/hunt Buffalo
- Buffalo dance
- Stampeed
- Dress up as wolves
- Use horses
- Sacred, respected them
- The horse increased the tribes Power and Efficiency
- Horses were brought over by Europeans in the 16th century
- It made hunting and moving easier- to transport stored food and other belongings
- Nomadic tribes, were less vulnerable than farmers to epidermic of European disease
- Smallpox and cholera hit Native American farming populations hard
- Tribal boundaries were changeable. There was a gradual south-westwards movement by the more powerful tribes
- Sioux in the North, Comanche in the South,driving off weaker tribes as they advanced
- The Plains Indians relied on the Buffalo
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