Plains Indians And Other American Indians In The West

For many tribes of Plains Indians whose bison-hunting culture flourished during the 18th and 19th centuries, the sun dance was the major communal religious ceremony . . . the rite celebrates renewal - the spiritual rebirth of participants and their relatives as well as the regeneration of the living earth with all its components . . . The ritual, involving sacrifice and supplication to insure harmony between all living beings, continues to be practiced by many contemporary native Americans. -Elizabeth Atwood LawrenceAs the most important ritual of the nomadic Plains Indians, the Sun Dance in itself presents many ideas, beliefs, and values of these cultures. Through its rich symbolism and complicated rituals we are able to catch a glimpse

The Lakota tribes environmental wisdom and spirituality grew to stabilize among years of conservation and concern for the earth. All animals were respected like humans and the rivers and trees were cared for because the nature was well alive like the humans that existed in it. The Lakota tribe lives on the Northern Plains of North America and are often referred to as Sioux. The Lakota tribe of the Great Plains is very much rooted to the earth and place a huge emphasis on it being their home. In their culture the world was not savage, nor were the animals wild because on earth all spirits resided in nature. They defined their culture and continue to strengthen their values like kinship, courage, and wisdom in their community through rites of renewal/passage, dance, and their style of clothes.

The main Indian tribes that lived in the Great Plains and Mountain Basin region were the Tigua, Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, and Jumano.

The native americans had many things that helped them survive today,you will learn about the desert regions

The Sioux indians were a very proud people and still are today. With some of the most well known chiefs in history it's know wonder why. The sioux indians culture was based on many things but the four main aspects their culture are language, family, and religion. I firmly believe that the leadership of the sioux tribe was the reason that they have stayed a very strong people even today.

The Cheyenne was one of the most famous tribes of the Native American Indians. They lived on the Great Plains in what is now South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas. During the 1800’s, the U.S. government forced the Cheyennes to move to Oklahoma. Today, there are two Cheyenne tribes. The Southern Cheyenne live in Oklahoma while the Northern Cheyenne settle in Montana.

The Cheyenne tribe were a powerful, resourceful, tribe of the Great Plains. They fought against the Americans when they went to take their land. Within their tribe there were very powerful role model like figures. Some of these leader like figures were Chief Roman Nose and Little Rock. All of the Native American tribes seemed interesting to learn about, but the Cheyenne tribe had a certain charm and dedication to their tribe that none of the of the other tribes seemed to have from the outside looking in.

"Man corn", warfare and atlatls were not the only interesting aspects of the Anasazi culture. The history and lifestyles of the Ancestral Puebloans may have contributed to their mysterious disappearance. Their societies were more complex than most humans realize.

“The history of American Indians before European contact is broadly divided into three major periods: the Paleo-Indian period, the Archaic period (8000–1000 b.c.), and the Woodland period (1000 b.c.–1600 a.d.).”(DiNome) There is little known information about the Paleo-Indian period; however, the Paleo Indians are believed to be some of the first American Indians, not only in Florida, but in all of America. The Paleo Indians were believed to be nomads who fought and hunted with stone tools and clubs. During the Archaic period American Indians began to become more civilized. It was in the Archaic period that the American Indians began to establish a system of trading among their people. During this time the Indians also started developing migration routes to bring other Indians down to Florida from the Carolinas. Similarly to the Indians in the Paleo time period, the Indians in the Archaic period used stone tools for hunting and fighting, but they also began to utilize the use of bone tools during this time period. Another skill that the Indians started becoming more familiar with during this time period was basketry. The last period that we see in pre-contact Native American life is the Woodland period. It is called the Woodland period because during this time is when the Native Americans began farming. We see during this time the Indian settlements had begun moving closer to streams of water and rivers, because that is where the soil was good for successful

The people dwelt in "towns" located in scattered autonomous tribal areas related by kinship throughout the southern Appalachian region.

In the very beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of the land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida.

The Plain Indians had interesting geography and landscape to learn about. The Plains were located from Texas to Montana and all the way to Canada. The location causes good weather for farming year round. In the exhibit the location is shown by the Rocky Mountains on the bottom of the exhibit and the Mississippi River on the top of the exhibit. Trees were scarce in the Plains. The trees supplied wood for the Indians so they could make new weapons. In the exhibit this is shown by the Mississippi River. Rivers helped out the Indians by supplying them with fresh food, water, and good soil for farming. In this exhibit the river is shown on the top. In conclusion the Plains Indians rely on natural resources to live a structured

The Plain Indians main source of food was buffalo. Not only did they use the buffalo for food they used the buffalo for coats, shoes, blankets, and even cups for drinking. So when the Americans expanded out west they took over and killed off a lot of buffalo, so the Indian families that were living in certain areas that the Americans were coming into had a lot less buffalo to chose from and that number kept decreasing. The Plain Indians had no choice to either fight for their land of move away. Different Indian tribes would do different things.

The Plains Indians ensued two principal varieties of life: farming and hunting. The farmers lived in perpetual villages. These tribes were the Arikaras, Pawnees, and Wichitas (who spoke languages of the Caddoan family) and additionally the Mandans, Hidatsas, Omahas, Otos, and Osages (who spoke Siouan languages). Their residences within the northern plains were generally fabricated from logs coated with dirt. Within the southern plains, their residences were coated in grass. Women farmed, prepared, and preserved food crops. The men hunted, fished, and cultivated tobacco. Twice the year the men would endure extended hunting trips for buffalo. Once within the early summer after their crops were planted and so once more in autumn after the harvest.

Europeans often thought Indians on one hand were vicious cannibals, with no social organization, but on the other hand pictured an Indian society as being orderly, advanced, and civilized. There are nine famous paintings I had to analyze. The pictures showed Indians were civilized people.