Give 3 examples of the way the Indians used different parts of the Buffalo.
Bones - arrowheads and knives; Hide - clothes and tipi covers; dung - fuel; intestines - buckets;
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What is polytheism?
The belief that there is more than one God.
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What is polygamy?
Having more than one wife.
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What was the sun dance?
It was performed in order to get help from the spirit world and was performed in a circle as circles were sacred to the Indians.
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What did the Indians live in?
Tipis
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Why were the Indians nomadic?
They had to follow the buffalo heards and they did not believe you could own land as land was sacred.
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Why was polygamy important to the Indians?
because women were very important. They did the majority of the work - all the men did was fight and hunt. The wives worked together to prepare food and keep the tipis.
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What did the Indians do to their enemies in battle?
They scalped them because they belived it would stop them from going into the after life.
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What was manifest destiny?
The belief that the white settlers had: that it was part of God's great plan for them to take over the Plains as they were better than the Indians in many ways including more technologically advanced.
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