Plains Indians Beliefs

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Who do they believe created the world?
Wakan Tanka
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Dances would take place before battles or raid. What else would they do dances before?
Hunting
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Who would interpret the visions?
Medicine man
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Where do they go when they die?
Happy Hunting Ground
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What shape represents life?
Circle
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Where would young men go to see a vision?
Sweat Lodge
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Meditation and enduring pain are two ways of seeing a vision. What is another way?
Fasting
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Which dance involved warriors putting skewers through their chest muscles?
Sun Dance
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Who removed strips of their skin before the Battle of Little Bighorn and saw a vision?
Sitting Bull
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What age do they have to reach before having their first vision?
Adolescence
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Who is the medicine man in contact with?
Spirits
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Dances would take place before battles or raid. What else would they do dances before?

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Hunting

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Who would interpret the visions?

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Where do they go when they die?

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What shape represents life?

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