Indians of North America Mandan and Kiowa

1. Indians of North AmericaMandan and Kiowa Author: Mayte Becerra

2. Table of Contents • Great planes – slide 2 • Mandans – slide 3 • Mandans (continuing)- slide 4 • Kiowas-slide 5 • Kiowas (continuing) –slide 6 • Glossary-slide 7 • Diagram-slide 8

3. Great Planes The tribes were located in the North America. It’s very flat, very grassy, with gently rolling hills. Indians, and America Bisons (their buffalos) roamed the land, two of the most important tribes in this area are the Mandans and Kiowas (KY-uh-wahz). http://www.google.com/search Great planes map Mandans kiowas

4. Mandan Housing The Mandans lodges are circular, warm, big, and made of sod. In the lodges you get one room per family, but you get your own bed. Sixty people fit in one lodge plus your pets. Hunting For the tribe hunting is very important, It’s like life or death. One skill that they use is they disguise them self as wolfs. They also don’t attack right away but before you can go attack the buffalos the men have top know their job! After they know their job they surround the buffalos and scare them so they could go to a cliff until the buffalos fall. This is how they used to hunt This is how the lodges looked. http://www.google.com/search http://www.google.com/search

5. Mandans Gathering Gathering was important for the Mandan's because of food source. Only the women and children planted crops such as: beans, corn, squash, and sunflower. The men haunted in the forests. The Mandan's trade crops for goods with other tribes. Tools The Mandan's used all the parts of the buffalo. They made blankets, clothing, moccasins, and Mandan ropes from the buffalo skin. They mad bags to carry water made out of their stomachs. The Mandan's make needles, and arrowheads from their from their bones . They make cords with the hair , they also make shields from a turtle shell and bows from the buffalo horns. picture http://www.google.com/search These are the arrowheads

6. Kiowas Nomads The kiowas were nomads that were found in the Southern Great Plains. They never stay in one place they are always moving place to place. Since they never stay in one place they don’t farm or live d in villages. The nomads were selfish, they were selfish because they claimed certain areas when they don’t stay in one place. The nomads depend on buffalos just like the madman's. Buffalo Uses Their buffalo uses are as important as they are to the Mandan's. the nomads make easy shelters to move called tepees. They made this with buffalo skin, it covered it top to bottom although they did make a hole on the top so the smoke can get out. They make beds and blankets. The nomads houses, cloth, food, and fuel came from buffalo. For their fuel they used dried buffalo droppings called chips. Travois For the nomads travois (truh-voy) are important. They are carriers that carry goods. They used tepee poles to make travois, then they would get horses to drag the poles kind of like if it was a carriage. http://www.google.com/search This is a travois

7. Kiowas How Men Became Chiefs There was a way to become cheifs. First of all a women can not become cheifs and every person has the same importance. Everyone hade to trust him. That person has to be a good hunter and a good leader of the clam.Subgroups There are also something I like to call subgroups. Kiowas who didn’t want to follow the group they could live free on their own. Also sometimes a tribe would start a new village. One tribe often hade many subgroups. Subgroups are made up of families who worked together. picture http://www.google.com/search This is one of the chiefs.

8. Glossary Tepee-a cone shape tent made of poles covered with animal skin Sod-mats that are held together by grass Lodges-houses made from sod Travois-a kind of carrier made up of two poles fasten to the harness animals Nomads- a wanderer who has no settle home

9. Diagram Buffalo cloths this is like the cloths they used to make with the skin. Buffalo stomachs sacks (made of the skin)this is made to drink water out of it. like if it was a water bottle.