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According to the information of Lewis and Clark, A sacred cedar post stood at the center of the Mandan village, symbolizing the tribe’s primary cultural hero. The post was surrounded by an open plaza, and at the north end of the plaza was the village’s primary medicine lodge. Forty or fifty additional lodges populated the plaza. The more powerful a family was, or the more significant that family’s ceremonial duties were, the closer its lodge would be to the center. Throughout most of the year, the Mandans lived in these permanent lodges. But in the winter, to avoid brutal storms, they constructed temporary lodges in wooded, low-lying areas adjacent to the river. Indeed Mandans becomes more closer when they are powerful. They also moves together in any situation. People lives in different lodges but yet supported each other because religion hold them together. There is also a class divided due to the power fact. It might differentiate them but in both ways they come closer to the sacred cedar post. This shows the relationship of sacredness puts them together to function as an

Another way was by the pelts and hides from hunting trips. Men’s clothing included shirts that fell to the knees, sleeves were buttoned at the wrist and several handkerchiefs were tied around the neck. A pouch that hung from the belted waist, leggings and moccasins were also part of the men’s clothing but were normally worn when visiting the white settlements. The women’s clothing consisted of long sleeved pull over blouses and full skirts gathered at the waist. Before the 20’s patchwork appeared in the style of checkerboard or sawtooth designs. By the early 1920’s Seminole clothing was made up of horizontal stripes and patchwork designs. By the 50’s the diagonal designs were illustrated by small bars of color crammed with larger bars. James Henshall described the Seminole turban as “some two feet in diameter and six inches thick or high, with a hole in the venter to fit the head. It formed of bright colored shawls, the outside layer being sometimes a bright red cotton or bandana handkerchief; its shape is exactly that of a flat cheese or grindstone.” Just as clothing plays a certain role in society so does the unique social

Cheyenne tribe lived in South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska and many more places. They were called the great plains warriors. They were dressed in deer and buffalo skin. The women were in charged to make the clothes this, includes the costumes of the ceremony. Serval

The Natives built and lived in many small teepees, small dwellings, along with massive adobe homes in the woods using the materials they had found among the land

The Blackfoot People are one of the many Native American Indian tribes that roamed America in the early 1700s. Like many tribes they were nomadic hunters that lived in the Great Plains of Montana and the Canadian provinces of Alberta. The name is said to have come from the colour of the peoples shoes that were made of leather. They had typically dyed or painted the soles of their shoes black.

Some of the artifacts that the Paiute tribe needed to survive was a blow gun, spears, knifes made from stone , rabbit sticks, and poisoned arrows. They got the poison from a snake or some kind of plant.

The northern tribes used bones and deer antlers to make knives, scrapers, awls, fishing tools, whistles, and pendants. The first tribes denpended on agriculture were those that lived on the Atlantic Costal Plain. They learned how to make pottery and cloth. The cloth was woven with thread made from soft layers of splint baskets. They made musical instruments like pipers, rattles, drums, nd they were played during ruitals and ceremonies dances. They built two types of houses, long houses, and wigwams. The first type was formed by bending poles into a cone or dome shape and by tying the poles together with vines. The frame was covered with woven mats, bark, or hide . These people grew corn, squash, beans, pumpkins, and tobacco.

The Plains Cree Tribe lived in Canada, north and west of Lake Superior in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Women wore dresses made out of deerskins, Men wore animal skin leggings,a loincloth which is a small piece of cloth or skin worn between the legs and a belt to hold the loin cloth. They did not speak english, their language is called Montagnais. They lived in teepees.

The Kootenai Tribe historically inhabited Northwestern Montana, Northern Idaho, Eastern Washington, and parts of Southern British Columbia. In this vast region, the indigenous people were; hunters, gathers, and fisherman. The tribe is made up of six bands, and is usually spilt up from there into the Lower and Upper Kootenai Tribe. The Upper Kootenai were traditionally forest and mountain people who traveled to the prairies to hunt buffalo (Pritzker 263-264).The Lower Kootenai were more tied to water, and primarily harvested fish. These Lower Kootenai bands constructed a unique sturgeon-nosed canoe, which is only found among this tribe, and in parts of Asia (Kootenai Canoe). The Kootenai’s lived a seminomadic lifestyle. They had permanent winter villages near good

Men were also taught at a young age to hunt and become warriors for the tribe. They often traveled

The Blackfoot Indians had a unique culture that was very important to them. The Blackfeet speak Algonquian, an eastern native language, this made many believe that the Blackfeet migrated to the Great Plains from the eastern woodlands many centuries before Europeans came to America. This made them one of the oldest Great Plains tribes. Their culture revolves around warfare. They mostly eat bison (buffalo) and horse. Since, the Blackfeet were nomadic they lived in Buffalo-skin tipis, that could be moved easily. They depended on the buffalo everywhere the went. The buffalo was used for their food, clothing, shelter, and equipment. They had no interests in art . For example, pottery and basketry. The Blackfeet also occasionally hunted other game, such as deer, moose, and elk. The women

Geologically ‘almost’ centered in North America, Mandan Indians occupied “the heart of the world”, present day North Dakota, where the Heart River joins the Missouri River. They were once cradled prosperous human settlements, but Mandan Indians are only mentioned in History when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark spent the winter with them in 1804-1805**. Elizabeth A. Fenn took a trip to North Dakota in 2002, and she had an urge to write about Mandan Indians. For twelve years, she spent time to gather and learn every aspect that can bring Mandan Indians. She learned archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science, anything that could bring Mandan past. Winner

Mandan men wore breechcloths with leather leggings and buckskin shirts. The Mandans wore moccasins on their feet, and in cold weather, they wore long buffalo-hide robes. A Mandan warrior's shirt was fringed and covered with beadwork, porcupine

Elk and buffalo, for example, were not only hunted for meat, but for their skin and horns which were used to decorate clothing. The Mandan women took on the responsibility to provide the tribe with clothing; using buffalo hides and deerskin to sew the clothes. Clothing was decorated with porcupine quills, paint, shells, or beadwork. Women wore long deerskin dresses adorned with with shells and elk teeth, and had tribal tattoos on their chins. The men typically wore buckskin that had been fringed, tunics, leggings, and breechcloths.

November 25, 1524. We just came out of a huge storm which killed two out of four vessels. It is 11 o’clock, and we have just anchored near the shore of the Hudson Bay. After finishing a meal, the crew went ashore to find a habitat living there. Longhouses made from bark and wood had smoke arising from them gave the scent of cooked beaver. There were couple of them surrounded by a wood spiked fence. The crew was not allowed to touch or take anything until we found the people. Next to the longhouses were wigwams covered with animal skins and mats. Tall, green spruce trees acted as a natural barrier for this big village. Their water supply came from the Hudson River. Fertile land had crops such as squash and pumpkins. Men from the ship including