Plains Indians Beliefs
- Created by: pxrklife
- Created on: 29-02-16 18:36
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- Plains Indian's Beliefs
- Land
- Sacred
- Couldn't be bought or sold
- Belongs to everyone
- Land
- Sacred
- Couldn't be bought or sold
- Belongs to everyone
- Belongs to everyone
- Land
- Belongs to everyone
- The Spirit World
- Wakan Tanka
- Created the world
- Controls nature
- Spirits live in all living things
- Spirits influence their lives
- Wakan Tanka
- Circles
- Life is a circle
- Sun and Moon
- Tipis
- Their camps would be circular to be close to the spirits
- Dances
- Get close to the spirits
- The Sun Dance & Buffalo Dance,
- Before battles, raids or hunting
- Help from the spirits
- Visions
- Young men reach adolescence..
- ...They fast and sit in a Sweat Lodge to get a vision
- Medicine man interprets the vison to give him his adult name
- ...They fast and sit in a Sweat Lodge to get a vision
- Young men reach adolescence..
- Afterlife
- Happy Hunting Ground
- Land
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