THE SIOUX TRIBE

WOMEN AND MENS CLOTHING

• Women wore ankle length dresses and leggings
• For special events they wore moccasins, gloves,jewelry
• They also wore vests, feathers,quills and beads
• Men wore shirts ,leggings and moccasins
• Chiefs wore headdress with feathers and fur

SHELTER AND TRAVEL

• The Sioux tribe lived in tipis
• The tipis were made of poles and buffalo hide
• They traveled all around the U.S.
• They traveled to Minnesota, South Dakota
• They also traveled to South Dakota,Nebraska and Montana

WEAPONS AND TOOLS

• Their tools were ......
• travois,shields,and axes and buffalo horns
• The buffalo horns held medicine and herbs
• Their weapons were......bow and arrow clubs,
• Longed tipped lances,knives,spears

FOOD AND REGION

• For meat they ate.....
• Fish,buffalo,elk,pemmican,and chicken
• For protein they ate....
• Berries,rice,corn,beans,squash,and nuts
• They lived in the plains

FACTS

• By the 1700's they were expert horse riders
• The name Sioux actually means snake
• They had large noses
• They had long hair and they wore it long