The Sioux tribe of the plains

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The Sioux tribe of the plains

• A Native Americans project by Alex Hall.

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The Sioux tribe.In this presentation I am going
to cover all these things.

• Homes
• Role of men, women and children
• Warfare
• Horses
• Religion and the great spirit
• Medicine and illness
• Dances and ceremonies
• Scalping and counting coup
• Law

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Some Background information on the Sioux tribe.

• The Sioux tribe lived in the nineteenth century.
• This Tribe live on the plains and relies on the
  existence of the buffalo because the land cannot
  be farmed on.

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Indian Homes
A Drawing of a Typical Tepee
Inside a traditional Tepee.
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The Native American home

• Native Americans would usually have large
  families so that the family would not die out and
  would be safe. Everyone would sleep in the tepee
  on fur rugs on the floor.
• Everything would be done in the tepee from eating
  unless a family prefered to eat as a community to
  sleeping.

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The role of Men

• The native American mans job was to protect and
  provide for the whole tribe. Men worthy of it
  would one day hunt the buffalo. Men married maybe
  two women to keep him safe and provide health to
  his family. This is called polygamy and it was
  quite legal in the tribes. Many think that this
  is terrible but it help the women if a man died
  whilst hunting or raiding tribes.

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The role of women

• The role of women was to cook food and make
  clothing and other furnishing for he tepee. The
  women of the Sioux tribe were very hard working
  people and most of the time were making leather
  and looking after many children.

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Role of children.

• The role of children was to become part of the
  working Indians life they learnt how to hunt and
  provide with other materials also they studied
  the great spirit and how to please the great
  spirit so that they have a good after life

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Warfare

• Fighting in a war was the best way to earn
  honour. Every boy dreamed of taking part in the
  fighting because it showed how brave you were.
  Also there was lots of dances and celebrations if
  victorious

Warriors going to war.
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Importance of Horses

• Horses arrived in north America after the
  fighting in the south west. Quickly the Native
  Americans realised how valuable horses were
  because it meant better hunting which gave more
  food and then their tribe were more healthy and
  lasing than before. The outbreak of horses meant
  there were no need for crops and they soon lost
  any of there farming skills. Horses were a
  warriors most prize possession and made the tribe
  more aggressive. The want for horses grew and
  tribes started midnight raids to gain horses from
  other tribes.

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Religion and the Great Spirit.

• The Indians believed in the great spirit that
  could bring evil or good to the tribe. The people
  of the tribe spent most of their lives pleasing
  the great spirit. The great spirit or wakan tanka
  is the thing that the Indians say gave them sun,
  earth, sky, mountains and everything around them
  which were alive.

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Medicine and illness

• The illness and medicine problems were sorted out
  by the medicine man the second most important man
  in the tribe. He or sometimes she has good
  understanding of dealing with spirits and a good
  knowledge of medicine. This person would have
  powerful healing miracles and other powers also
  they would organise all the ceremonies.

The medicine man
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Dances and Ceremonies

• The Indians held many dances and ceremonies all
  meaning and hoping for luck in either hunting or
  other daily things. For example the buffalo dance
  was to give luck and help from the great spirit
  for coming hunt. People say that these dances
  looked barbaric and were just horrible but really
  they had a big meaning because the dances were
  the same as a prayer.

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Scalping and counting coup

• Scalping was a way for the tribe to be safe in
  the after life. The Indians say that if you have
  no scalp you can not enter the spirit world,
  therefore they would not have as many enemies.
  Many natives fear scalping but to scalp an enemy
  is a great honour and earns counting coup.
  Counting coup is when a member of the tribe
  counts his points in battle . Warriors would have
  a special stick if they touch the enemy with that
  stick they would earn maximum points. A warrior
  would display his coups by having more feathers
  in his headdress.

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Law.

• The Native American Law was different from ours.
  To start with I have mentioned that polygamy (the
  act of marrying two people at once) is perfectly
  normal in the Sioux tribe. Apart from that
  difference the Indians haven't got a law to abide
  by they will be punished by the chief if he
  thought that that person had done wrong. Instead
  of a written law the Sioux tribe had a council
  which were made up of the chief and people the
  chief thought were intelligent and good team
  members they discussed about hunting to war.

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SIOUX
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The End of my Presentation!