Plains Indians
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- Created on: 22-02-17 21:34
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- plains indians
- who were the Plains Indians?
- the plains Indians were the native people of America
- they were nomadic and followed and hunted buffalo to stay alive
- the Indians relied on horses to measure power and to hunt buffalo
- family life
- marriage
- the native Americans would spend most of the year travelling in bands. these would be made up of 10-50 families
- men were responsible for hunting, looking after the horses and protecting the band
- women were responsible for looking after the tipi, preparing food, fetching water and making clothes
- arranged marriages took place in some nations but in most cases the marriage was to do with love. the man would usually try to impress the women with a gift of a horse or buffalo to show he could look after her to her parents
- men would live with the wives family. and they traced their descent through the mother not the father.
- most men would have multiple wives as the bands didn't want a women to not be looked after and so if their husband died in battle they had another husband
- children
- children were respected as they were the future of the bands
- boys learnt how to hunt and girls learnt how to maintain a home
- children weren't punished unless they did something very bad. in which case they threw a bowl of water over their head
- elderly
- the elderly were respected for their wisdom and experiance
- if the elderly slowed down the tribe, they requested to be left behind and were left to die, this was called exposure
- marriage
- society
- customs and traditions
- in order to survive they worked very close together and were very organised, this was as they had to be quick to keep up with the buffalo
- if they broke the rules they would be humiliated. this was as they all worked closely together and so being humiliated was a bad thing
- chiefs
- chiefs were the leaders of the bands and led by example not orders
- they were not elected or inherit power
- councils
- they were groups of wise men from the band and discussed important descisions
- sometimes an entire nation met and they would discuss whether to go to war. not all of the bands had to go with this desicion
- customs and traditions
- war
- reasons for war
- horses
- war was not a long campaign but just a series of raids against enemy nations
- revenge
- to destroy their enemies
- reasons for individuals
- being a martyr was not a reason to go to war
- glory and personal gain
- to enter a warrior society
- to get a wife
- traditions
- counting coup
- this was where the Native Americans touched the enemies with a stick to hold them as a hostage instead of killing them
- they thought counting coup was braver than using a gun and so they did that more
- scalping
- they scalped their victims and decorated their war gear and tipis with their dried out scalps.
- this stopped the enemy getting to the afterlife and attacking them there
- counting coup
- reasons for war
- religion
- they believed that all things had a spirit and were all connected in the spirit world
- they would have visions to have their names chosen
- medicine men interpreted the visions and helped to cure illnesses
- they believed they were part of the land and so no body could own land as they are a part of it, they also believed that nobody could farm as it is as if you were scratching your own mothers breast
- who were the Plains Indians?
- manifest destiny was the god given right to the white Americans to take over all of America. this was what they used to justify their actions
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