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Sioux Indians

Sioux Indians. By Claire, David, and Taylor. Where they Lived. The top of the Mississippi River Had 35 million acres Land cost $3 million Owned land from as far as the Arkansas River to Lake Winnipeg and all the way to the eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains In tepees. Clothes.

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Sioux Indians

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  1. Sioux Indians By Claire, David, and Taylor

  2. Where they Lived • The top of the Mississippi River • Had 35 million acres • Land cost $3 million • Owned land from as far as the Arkansas River to Lake Winnipeg and all the way to the eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains • In tepees

  3. Clothes • Deer and buffalo skin • The men wore deerskin shirts with leggings • Shoes- moccasins in summer and snow shoes in winter • In Summer they wore breechcloth which was just a single strip of leather • In Winter they wore buffalo robes • The women wore dresses with decorations made from things such as elk teeth, bear claws, fur, and feathers with buffalo robes and moccasins

  4. Weapons • Mostly used bows and arrows • Usually made of wood • Made by stone, bone, and sinew arrowheads • Sioux liked having their weapons made out of steel but they only could if they had enough to trade for it • Sinew backed horn- from Montana, 3 feet long, had a rectangular cross section, made from cow horn join

  5. Famous Leaders • Chief- Sitting Bull • Sitting Bull was chief and medicine man of the whole tribe • Sitting Bull born in 1837 in North Dakota • A policeman shot Sitting Bull and killed him in 1890 after rumors of a coming Indian Messiah got out and he was arrested

  6. Famous Battles • Battle of 1812- sided with the British • Civil War- Sitting Bull organized and led raids on white settlers in Iowa and Minnesota • Fought white people with Cheyenne indians and took the soldiers of one of their big rivals, General George Crook • Battle of Wounded Knee- sitting bull was almost arrested but they fought, however the Indians eventually lost the battle

  7. Fun Facts! • Also known as the Dakota Indians • Large powerful tribe founded by France in 1640 • Algonquiens called them the Nadowessioux but that was later shortened to Sioux • The Sioux Indian children were a lot like children nowadays are- they went to school, played games, and helped out around the house

  8. The End!

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