Plains Indians

Question 0

Why were they nomadic?

Answer 0

Illness
Following Buffalo
War

Question 1

What were the Plains Indians?

Answer 1

Nomadic

Question 2

How did they count wealth?

Answer 2

Horses

Question 3

Why did they move to the Plains?

Answer 3

Horses to hunt buffalo easier
Disease
Guns

Question 4

What was their homes called?

Answer 4

Tipi

Question 5

Why was a tipi good?

Answer 5

Easy to move
Fire could escape via flaps
Strong to survive winds

Question 6

What were men responsible for?

Answer 6

Hunting
Looking after horses
Protecting the band

Question 7

How were men judged?

Answer 7

Hunting skills
Warrior skills
Horsemanship skills

Question 8

What were women’s responsibilities?

Answer 8

Preparing food
Fetching water
Making clothes and other items
Looking after children

Question 9

How were women judged?

Answer 9

Skills at craft
Skills at home makers
Highly valued as bearers of children

Question 10

Did they practise polygamy? Why?

Answer 10

Yes, more women than men, all women would be cared for, lots of children

Question 11

Were arranged marriages popular? divorce?

Answer 11

Most were love matches, yes woman would keep tipi

Question 12

Children?

Answer 12

Highly valued, learned skills needed, taught to ride, boys used bows and arrows, women taught to maintain home, learnt how to survive

Question 13

Old people?

Answer 13

Gave advice, passed on history, helped bring up children

Question 14

What is exposure?

Answer 14

When old people became too weak and tired they left

Question 15

Name the three ways Indians were organised in decreasing size?

Answer 15

Nation
Tribes
Bands

Question 16

How was the buffalo used? Name some

Answer 16

Cups, arrows, tipis, soap, whips, clothes, drums

Question 17

What was counting coup?

Answer 17

Instead of killing enemy he was pegged

Question 18

Why were scalps taken?

Answer 18

So they couldn’t get to the afterlife

Question 19

Who was the great Spirit?

Answer 19

Wakan Tanka

Question 20

Why were spirits important?

Answer 20

Influenced lives

Question 21

Why were circles important?

Answer 21

Everything went in a circle

Question 22

Why was the land sacred?

Answer 22

They came from it and were returned there, land was their mother,

Question 23

Name some dances and what they were used for?

Answer 23

Buffalo dance- call buffalo
Scalp Dance- thank spirits for help
Sun Dance- guidance from spirit world

Question 24

What was another word for the medicine man?

Answer 24

Shaman

Question 25

Why was public health not a problem?

Answer 25

They moved so didn’t have pollution of water supply by sewage

Question 26

What did they believe about land?

Answer 26

Couldn’t be owned
It was the whole nations
Black hills were very sacred