plains Indians and PIF

Question 1

tribe that lived in the plains

Answer 1

Sioux

Question 2

structure of the tribe?

Answer 2

chief, medicine man, council, warrior society

Question 3

How did the Indians view land?

Answer 3

Sacred and can’t be owned

Question 4

What was counting coup?

Answer 4

touching your enemy

Question 5

The Indians moved around, meaning they were….

Answer 5

nomadic

Question 6

name 4 buffalo parts and what they were used for.

Answer 6

fur-clothing and warmth, pillows, tipi accessories
Dung-buffalo chips and fuel
Bones- utensils and dice
Bladder- food bags

Question 7

How did the Indians contact the spirits?

Answer 7

Dances, medicine man, visions

Question 8

What was there for the young Indian in the hunt?

Answer 8

bravery, status and education

Question 9

what were women jobs connected to the hunt?

Answer 9

Butcher and skin the buffalo, tanning skin, making raw materials into something useful

Question 10

why was decoration important?

Answer 10

remember past, show status, connects spirits

Question 11

Give 3 reasons why tipis were practical

Answer 11

made out of readily available materials, easy to move around, suitable for climate on the plains.

Question 12

What was the unit of transport called?

Answer 12

travois

Question 13

what is polygamy?

Answer 13

having lots of wives

Question 14

Why did the Indians practise it?

Answer 14

protects widows, grows population as men were more likely to die.

Question 15

What did the Indians believe about nature?

Answer 15

connected to the spirits.

Question 16

What was the Indians attitude to land?

Answer 16

sacred, can’t be farmed, mined or destroyed.

Question 17

Who was the supreme being?

Answer 17

Wakan Tanka

Question 18

What was a medicine man’s job?

Answer 18

Connected to spirits and mad people feel better.

Question 19

Why would Indians go to war?

Answer 19

For bravery, to protect their hunting land and to gain a wife.

Question 20

Why scalp an enemy?

Answer 20

Trophies, and the victim can’t go to the afterlife.

Question 21

When was the Indian removal act and what did it do?

Answer 21

started in 1825 and moved Indians on the Eastern side of the frontier to the west.

Question 22

What was the boundary between the East and the Plains called?

Answer 22

Permanent Indian Frontier.

Question 23

How did the White American view the plains?

Answer 23

As an economic opportunity to expand.

Question 24

3 reasons why there was tension between the Indians and White man’s way of life?

Answer 24

overland, broken treaties and gov. policy to destroy buffalo.

Question 25

What was the policy of concentration?

Answer 25

Keep all the Indians in one area.

Question 26

What was passed in 1851, with what aim?

Answer 26

Fort Laramie treaty protects Indians from being attacked and they are given money, in return for them no attacking travellers.

Question 27

What was agreed?

Answer 27

Indians would get money and Americans could put forts along the trail.

Question 28

What was the impact of this treaty?

Answer 28

kept peace for a short amount of time.

Question 29

What was the significance of the treaty?

Answer 29

proves to the Indians that the American people will break the treaty and the American people don't follow it.

Question 30

How did the railroad increase tension?

Answer 30

Frequently built through Indian land, encouraged buffalo hunting, and encouraged the settling of the plains

Question 31

How did ranching increase tension?

Answer 31

drove cattle through Indian land, and built ranches on Indian land. Disrupted buffalo herds and cause Indians to attack.

Question 32

How did gold increase tension?

Answer 32

Further invasion on Indian land. Gold discovered in Montana 1862, miners pushed some Indians off their land.

Question 33

3 problems the Indians faced on their reservations?

Answer 33

Tribes moved out of their homeland and onto unfamiliar territory. Land was insufficient and unsuitable for farming causing starvation as if the land was good it was taken by settlers.