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The Sioux and Cheyenne By Emily Vaughn and Lance Brown The Great Plains Indians
The Sioux and CheyenneBy Emily Vaughn and Lance Brown
The Great Plains Indians
The Sioux Indians ate buffalo, fish, corn, squash, beans, and wild rice. They hunted the buffalo, fished for fish. They farmed for corn, squash, and beans. They gathered wild rice.
The Sioux Indian’s Food
The Cheyenne ate buffalo, deer, squash, corn, and beans. The men hunted deer and buffalo. The woman harvested corn, squash, and beans.
What the Cheyenne ate
The Sioux live in teepees . Teepees were made to set up and break down easily. Teepees are made of long thin poles that are tree trunks. Then women from a triangle with the tree trunks. Next they drape about 18 buffalo hides over the tree trunks and that is how the Sioux make a teepee.
What the Sioux lived in?
The Cheyenne homesThe Cheyenne lived in teepees. The teepees
are made of buffalo hides and long poles. They set the poles up in a triangular form then they drape the buffalo hides over the poles.
Sioux women wore long deer skin or elk skin dresses. The men wore breech clothes, leggings, and buck skin shirts. Both wore moccasins. In bad weather they wore buffalo-hide robes. They made these out of buffalo hide, deer skin, and elk skin. Sioux warriors and chiefs wore impressive feather war bonnets.
How the Sioux dressed
The Cheyenne women wore deer and elk skin dresses. The Sioux men wore breechcloth pants and deer skin shirts. They used deer and elk skins to make the clothes.
What the Cheyenne wore
The Sioux fought with the white settlers. When they complain to the U.S. government they ordered the army to move them to a reservation. This was negative because most of the white settlers died and the Sioux lost their land.
How the Sioux interacted with the white settlers.
The Plains Indian tribes fought but instead of fighting over land they fought to prove their courage.
Interesting Fact
http://www.school.eb.com/elementary/search?query=siuox+indians&ct=ebkids&fuzzy=true&autobounce=true http://www.bigorrin.org/sioux_kids.htm http://www.google.com/imghp
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