SIOUX

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SIOUX

• By Alexandra Keenan, Patrick McCarthy, Camila
  Meyer-Bosse, Channing Smith and Tia Zajec.

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Food

• They mostly ate buffalo. they also ate bear, deer
  and antelope.
• Sometimes they ate wild turkey and hens.
• They ate boiled, broiled, raw and dry buffalo.
• They used buffalo bones as toys.
• They made spoons and cups out of buffalo horns.
• They ate a lot of fruits and vegetables such as
  wild fruit, cherries, berries, plums, potatoes,
  spinach and prairie turnips.
• They used wild cherry pits in pemmican.

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Shelter

• They lived in a tipi. they made it out of buffalo
  hides and long wooden poles.
• The women were in charge of the tipi, they could
  set it up and take it down in a few minutes.
• They took everything when they travelled.
• They slept on buffalo robes and the babies slept
  in cradles.
• They slept on the left side of the door in the
  tipi.
• They believed nobody owned the land.
• They built their homes on land which is now
  called Minnesota.

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Clothing

• Their clothes were made out of animal skin such
  as elk and antelope but mostly deer skin.
• Women and girls usually wore leggings and
  dresses.
• Sioux clothes were decorated with elk teeth, bear
  claws, feathers and fur.
• Sioux hair was usually wore loose or in braids.
  their hair was usually down to their shoulders.
• Women often painted their part line red.
• Men and boys wore deerskin shirts and leggings.