Plains Indians
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- Created on: 29-02-16 17:23
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- The Plains Indians
- Tipi
- Made of buffalo skin
- Can be put into a travois when travelling
- Responsibility of the women
- In the summer the bottom rolls up to let air in
- In the winter in could be banked with earth to keep them warm
- Buffalo
- Used to food, the tipi cover and clothes
- Horses
- Used to hunt buffalo
- Made it easier
- Buffalo
- Used to food, the tipi cover and clothes
- More horses=richer
- Stole horses
- Stolen from Spanish invaders
- 1640
- Used to hunt buffalo
- Warfare
- Counting Coup
- Stole horses
- Rarely killed
- Counting Coup
- Scalping
- Stopped them from going to the Happy Hunting Ground
- Bows & Arrows and Tomahawks
- Nomadic
- Hunted buffalo
- Had to move around to keep getting a supply
- Tipis
- Could be turned into a Travois
- Hunted buffalo
- Organisation
- Chief
- Wisdom, Spiritual power & skills as a hunter
- Council
- Make the decisions
- Talk until everyone agrees
- Make the decisions
- Warrior Society
- Skilled at fighting
- Help with war planning
- Chief
- Family
- Polygamy
- Rich men could have more than one wife
- To cook all the buffalo they had caught
- Rich men could have more than one wife
- Tribes
- 10 - 50 families
- Children learnt skills
- Men usually died young from hunting
- Polygamy
- Exposure
- If you were moving too slow you were left on the Plains to die from exposure
- Tipi
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