Help with info about Sioux indians?

Question

What are the Sioux's
-Natural Resources
-Type of homes they lived in
-How they got their food and what they ate
-The area they lived in
-Ten other cool facts

I'll give 5 extra points to whoever answer!

Answer 1

1. The land around them. Fires were made from wood or if no timber was available, Buffalo chips (dried Buffalo poo)and theie clothing and tools, weapons etc. were made from parts of the Buffalo

2. Buffalo hide tipis (tepees) erected by the women when making camp. They could be dismantled and packed within half an hour.

3. Their made subsidence was the American Bison, known as Buffalo or in the Sioux language tatanka (pronounced T' TUNKA). Before they obtained horses from the spanish the Sioux men, on foot would stampede the Buffalo off of cliffs and then retrieve the carcasses from below. after the horse they hunted them on horseback with lances and bows (later rifles).

4. Their ancestral homeland was present day North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Minnesota.

5. i) The nation we know as 'Sioux' was in fact three related tribes called Lakota- in Montana, Wyoming and western N & S Dakota; Dakota- in N & S Dakota and eastern Montana, Wyoming; and Nakota in present day Minnesota.
ii) Lakota, Dakota and Nakota each mean 'People' in their own tribal dialect.
iii) Minnesota comes from the Sioux words 'sota'- muddy (literally 'not quite transparent') and 'minne'- water.
iv) The Sioux gave the world the 'Hollywood Indian' in that until recently Indians always appeared in movies wearing buckskin clothing and big feather 'warbonnets'- dress originally mainly worn by the Sioux nation.
v) Technically the Sioux own the western half of S. Dakota from the Missouri River to the Montana/Wyoming border. It was said in the Ft. Laramie Treaty 1868 after the US Army was defeated by Red Cloud and his men (the only time the US was ever defeated in a campaign against the Indians) that this area would be the Great Sioux Reservation "for as long as the grass shall grow"- a few years later Custer discovered gold in the Black Hills and the land was taken from them without the treaty being disolved.
vi) The Sioux used Buffalo for everything- skins for tipis and clothing and bags etc. bones for tools, plates bowls etc. hooves for glue, tendons for laces on moccasins and for stitching clothing, horns for jewelry, hair combs etc., fat for the equivilent of hair gel and scrotums for tobacco pouches!!! Because of their usefulness the Buffalo were sacred to the people.
vii) Eagle feathers used in headdresses were awarded like medals, you had do carry out a brave act to be awarded one
viii) The Sioux believed that the thunder and lightning was created by the giant Wakinyan Cetan (wa-kin-yun chay-tun) or Thunderbird. The thunder was the noise he made as he flapped his wings and the lightning shot from his eyes.
ix) In their traditional religion the Sioux had a colour associated with each of the four 'winds' (directions)- white; north, black; south, red; west and yellow; east. Oddly though they had no way of knowing until recent times these are the colours of the four races of man (white-European, black-African, yellow-Oriental and red- American Indian)!!
x) The Sioux were nomadic- they didnt live in one place, they roamed the plains following the Buffalo in order to survive. A large reason for they're defeat was that the white man had hunted to the Buffalo to near extinction so the Sioux then had to rely on the food handouts given by the government and could no longer survive in the traditional way.

I hope this helps. I advise watching the movie Dances With Wolves or Steven Spielbergs mini series Into The West for good examples of the Sioux culture of the 19th Century.

Answer 2

Sioux Indians, a North American Indian tribe of the Siouan language family. The name Sioux" comes from a Chippewa word for adder or enemy. The tribe calls itself by a Siouan word meaning allies the word is spelled (depending on which Siouan dialect is being used) Lakota, Dakota, or Nakota. The Sioux are one of the best-known Indian tribes in American history. They were one of the largest and most warlike groups on the Northern Plains and under leaders such as Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull won notable victories against the U.S. Army.The earliest known homeland of the Sioux was the upper Mississippi Valley in what is now Minnesota. Beginning in the 1600's, many Sioux were forced westward by the Chippewa (or Ojibway). By the late 1700's the main body of Sioux, called the Teton (or Western) Sioux, were centered in the Black Hills of South Dakota. To the east were the Wiciyela (or Middle) and the Santee (or Eastern) Sioux. At that time the total group numbered about 25,000......hope this helps

Answer 3

Check out this web site and experience it for yourself:

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Sioux, or Dakota, Indians, a large and powerful tribe of Indians, who were found by the French, in 1640, near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The Algonquiens called them Nadowessioux, whence they came to be called Sioux. They occupied the vast domain extending from the Arkansas River, in the south, to the western tributary of Lake Winnipeg, in the north, and westward to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. They have been classed into four grand divisions - namely, the Winnebagoes, who inhabited the country between Lake Michigan as the Mississippi, among the Algonquians; the Assiniboines, or Sioux proper (the most northerly of the nation) ; the Minnetaree group, in Minnesota; and the Southern Sioux, who dwelt in the country between the Arkansas and Platte rivers, and whose hunting-grounds extended to the Rocky Mountains. In 1679 Jean Duluth, a French officer, set up the Gallic standard among them near Lake St. Peter, and next year he rescued from them Father Hennepin, who first


Sitting Bull
Sioux Chief Sitting Bull

explored the upper Mississippi. The French took formal possession of the country in 1685, when they were divided into seven eastern and nine western tribes. In wars with the French and other Indians, they were pushed down the Mississippi, and, driving off the inhabitants of the buffalo plains, took possession.

Others remained on the shores of the St. Peter. Some of them wandered into the plains of Missouri, and there joined the Southern Sioux.

Indian Village
A Sioux Village

In the War of 1812 the Sioux took sides with the British. In 1822 the population of the two divisions of the tribe was estimated at nearly 13,000. In 1837 they ceded to the United States all their lands east of the Mississippi, and in 1851 they ceded 35,000,000 acres west of the Mississippi for $3,000,000. The neglect of the government to carry out all the provisions of the treaties for these cessions caused much bitter feeling, and a series of hostilities by some of the Sioux ensued; but after being defeated by General Harney, in 1855, a treaty of peace was concluded.

Enraged by the failure of the government to perform its part of the bargain and the frauds practiced upon them, there was a general uprising of the Upper Sioux, in 1862, and nearly 1,000 settlers were killed. The Lower Sioux, of the plains, also became hostile, but all were finally subdued. Fully 1,000 were held captive, and thirty-nine were hanged.

Many bands fled into what was then Dakota Territory, and the strength of the nation was greatly reduced. The most guilty bands fled into the British dominions, while others, from time to time, attacked settlements and menaced forts. Loosely made treaties were violated on both sides. By one of these the Black Hills were made part of a reservation, but gold having been


Sioux Warrior
A Sioux Warrior

discovered there, the United States wished to purchase the tract, and induce the Indians to abandon that region and emigrate to the Indian Territory. They showed great reluctance to treat. Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, and Red Cloud visited the national capital in 1875, but President Grant could not induce them to sign a treaty. Commissioners met an immense number of them at the Red Cloud agency, in September, but nothing was done. The sending of surveyors under a military escort to the Black Hills excited the jealousy of the Sioux, and they prepared for war. In the spring of 1876 a military force was sent against them, and in June a severe battle was fought, in which General Custer and all of his immediate command were slain. This battle will live in infamy, popularly referred to as "The Battle of Little Big Horn", or "Custer's Last Stand". By whatever name it is called, it will be remembered as one of the most significant victories of the Indian Nations. While in the end their cause was lost, they demonstrated their superb bravery and military skill in defeating Custer and humiliating the US Army.

Sioux Medicine Man
A Sioux Medicine Chief


Later, after having been severely beaten in several encounters, the Indians returned, under full pardon, to their reservations.

The advancement made by the Christian or progressive portion of the Sioux Indians in the present South Dakota had long been regarded with disfavor by the pagan and conservative element under the leadership of Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, and Kicking Bear, and the latter eagerly waited for some pretext to bring the question of civilization or non-civilization to a decisive issue. In 1890 there was a failure on the part of the government to meet promptly some of its obligations to the Sioux, especially in the payment of annuities and of moneys due to the Indians for certain lands which they had sold. The crops, too, had failed; Congress had cut down the supplies;

and there was naturally a feeling of dissatisfaction among the half famished Indians. Inefficient agents also had been sent out by the government who had little regard for anything save their own personal gain, and not much was done by them to allay the general discontent. All these circumstances combined to favor the designs of Sitting Bull and his associates. A widespread conspiracy was formed, and plans were made for a general uprising in the spring.

In September a Shoshone Indian, a medicine-man, began to predict the coming of an Indian Messiah. The Great Manitou had taken pity upon his suffering children. The Messiah would roll thirty feet of soil, timbered and sodded, upon their white oppressors, and all who escaped being smothered thereby would become buffaloes and catfish. But all the dead Indians would be restored to life; their hunting-grounds would be as in former days; herds of buffaloes and wild horses would again abound upon the prairies; the Indian millennium would be inaugurated. These glowing predictions were eagerly listened to and believed by large numbers of Indians. Late in October they began a series of " ghost dances " in anticipation of the Messiah's coming; and, to show their devotion, the dancing was


Sitting Bull
Sioux Chief Sitting Bull

continued without intermission for five days and nights. To this hope Sitting Bull gave every encouragement. His adherents arrayed themselves in warpaint, and provided an ample supply of guns and ammunition. They refused to report themselves at the different agencies, and a few of the most desperate began burning and pillaging near Wounded Knee, and afterwards escaped to the Bad Lands.
The Battle of Wounded Knee

On Dec. 15 a body of Indian police, acting under orders from General Miles, attempted to arrest Sitting Bull in his camp, about 40 miles northwest of Fort Yates, N. D. A skirmish ensued, and in it the noted chieftain, together with his son Crowfoot and six other Indians, was killed. The remnant of the band made its way to the Bad Lands. On Dec. 28 a battle occurred near Wounded Knee, S. D., between a cavalry regiment and the men of Big Foot's band. Thirty of the whites were killed, while the Indian dead numbered over 200, including many of their women and children. Over 3,000 Indians then fled from the agency and encamped near White Clay Creek, where, on the next day, another encounter occurred. The result of this engagement was the dispersal of the Indians with heavy loss, and the death of eight soldiers of the 9th Cavalry. Several other skirmishes occurred during the week which followed, with loss of life on both sides. On Jan. 14, 1891, two councils were held with General Miles, and the chiefs, seeing the hopelessness of their cause, agreed to surrender their arms and return to the agency.

Indian War Party

Indian War Party

The war was practically ended, and on Jan. 21 the greater part of the troops were withdrawn from the neighborhood of the reservation. On the 29th, a delegation of Sioux chiefs, under charge of Agent Lewis, arrived in Washington for the purpose of conferring with the Secretary of the Interior. The conference began on Feb. 7, and continued four days, at the close of which the Indians were received by President Harrison at the White House. They were assured that the cutting down of the congressional appropriation was an accident, and that the government desired faithfully to carry out every agreement made. On their return home the chiefs stopped for a short time at Carlisle, Pa., where the children of several of them were attending school. In 1899 the total number of Sioux was 27,215, divided into nineteen bands, and located principally in South Dakota.




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