sioux

Clothing

• Sioux clothing was both functional and beautiful.
• The clothes were made by elk skin, deer skin and tanned buffalo hide.
• These qualities made them not-too-hot, not-too-cold
• moccasins, shirts, leggings, breech cloths, dresses, and capes 
• used vegetable dyes to dye porcupine quills and turtle shells

They hunted buffalo, deer, and other animals. They gathered fruits and vegetables. Some of the Sioux people also grew crops.

TRIBES LOCATION

• North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 
• Great plains
• The Sioux lived in teepees

Beliefs

• wheel represents the circle of life and death
• represents the unity in the Great Spirit or Grandfather
• The Sun Dance was the most practiced ritual
• The rite included fasting, singing, dancing, drumming, the experience of visions, self-torture.

Government

• women had no say in government.
• Each village council selected a chief

Customs and rituals

• Holy men and women received other rituals during trance-like states
• guardian spirit gave them their own personal songs and rituals.
• Sioux boys, and some girls, went on a vision quest

Activities and entertainment

• The sioux divided tasks between the sexes.
• Women were responsible for cooking and cleaning
• buffalo hides was an important and time-consuming task
• Several women often worked
• The mans primary role was to hunt