A lot of tribes believed, that the journey will be long, so the tribe performed rituals, after the death. They performed rituals because, they wanted the spirit to have a save journey to the spirit world. Different tribes gave the spirit food, herbs, weapons and gifts to ensure a safe journey.

 

In the past some tribes would even sacrifice slaves and horses in honour of the person who had died. 

 

They also wash the death body with natural yucca suds, and they dressed them in traditional clothes.

 

Often the death of a child would have its own specific rituals. In the Ojibwa or Chippewa tribes, a doll would be made from the dead child’s hair. The mother would carry it with her for a year, symbolizing the grief she is carrying.

 

The Hopi Indians believed, that those who have lived a righteous life will travel with ease. However, those who haven’t will encounter suffering on their journey. 

 

When the native Americans had made a fire they would cover it with a wet towel and when they released it, it would create a black smoke that could been seen from miles away.

When using smoke signals there is one drawback and that is that the enemy also could see the signals, therefore there wasn’t any particular codes, every tribe had its own system. The meaning of the smoke signal was only known by the sender and receiver of the signal. The native Americans would commonly use the signals to announce battle or to call for reinforcements.

Animism is a religious belief that everything has a soul. Many Native American tribes hold the belief that each of their people have animal totems that are spirit guides who might appear in dreams, or Vision Quests, in the form of an animal. These Animal Totems, or spirit guides walk through life with the animists, teaching and guiding them, and in some instances protecting them. Their conviction in their beliefs involves rituals and ceremonies intended to celebrate and honor the animal totems. 

 

 

The primary materials used by native Americans in their clothing was made from animal’s hides.  When they terminate an animal, could they both eat the animal meat and used the skin to make clothes. Some tribes could make clothes of plants. The woman’s make all the clothes in the hand.  They will lens hood the skin, so it became leather. After that they will sew the leather to piece of clothes. 

The way they will decorate the clothes is with feather and fur from rabbit or hermelin. After the Europeans arrived, glass beads to decorate their clothes.

Most of the Indian men wore a breechcloth. It was a piece of cloth that covered the private areas. In the winter and in the cold areas the men wore leggings to keep their legs warm.

The native Americans woman hat often a skirt or leggings. On the upper body, they have shirt or tunic. 

Most of the Indians people there a kind of footwear called a moccasin. It was a shoe make by a soft leather.  

A pow wow is a type of event for Native American people to meet and dance, sing and honor their cultures. Pow wows can be private or public. There is a dancing competition with many different types of dances, music. Often is there a significant prize money awarded. Pow wows could be one day long, and it can also be a week long. 

The dance tradition
 

Pow wow dancers are crow hop some be make out of a north drum or a horse steel song of a south drum; There are also "double beat", "sneak up" and, for Women's Traditional and Jingle, "sidestep".  

The music 

The music comes only form the drums and panpipe. A panpipe is a pipe. Some people sing also. 

We choose this because it's look fun the name and it was one of them there not was taken. 

1. The Native Americans themselves created the word red skin. After the colonization of Europeans had begun.

 

 2. It was very normal to have more than one wife 

 

3. This is a Tiki Totem. The carved symbols on it had their own special meaning, and the pole was a story about the family and tribes 

 

 4. The reason the Indians have war painting in the head is because they mean that the colors red, blue and white procets them from evil spirits. 

 

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The Indians lost most of their country, but they still exist 

 

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Some of the tribes was only letting their prisoners eat ants. 

 

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For the Indians, the smoking symbolized was the connection between Earth, Heaven and the universe's energies. Therefore, they often smoke by praying and meditation. 

 

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Indians often changed names when they became adults. And sometimes they also changed names if they got a new status in the tribe. 

Sioux is a group there is also known as Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, are groups of Native American Tribes (Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other things) Before the middle of the 17th century, the Santee Sioux lived in the area around Lake Superior, where they gathered wild rice and other foods, hunted deer and buffalo, and speared fish from canoes. Prolonged and continual warfare with the Ojibwa to their east drove the Santee into what is now southern and western Minnesota, at that time the territory of the agricultural Teton and Yankton. In turn, the Santee forced these two groups from Minnesota into what are now North and South Dakota. Horses were becoming common on the Plains during this period, and the Teton and Yankton abandoned agriculture in favour of an economy centred on the nomadic hunting of bison. 

 

Cheyenne; 

The Cheyenne-tribe was a powerful and resourceful tribe of the Great Plains, there hard resisted the white encroachment* of the native Indian lands.  

And these names are the most famous chiefs of the Cheyenne tribe. 

LIFESTYLE AND CULTURE 

The Cheyenne tribe lived originally as farmers in the Sheyenne River valley.  

The tribe was forced to move west on, in the Great Plains by the French and their Chippewa-allies. The Cheyenne chanced their lifestyle ad became nomadic buffalo hunters and lived in tepees. In 1832 the Cheyenne split up into two groups, the Northern Cheyenne, that lived along the river Platte; and the Southern Cheyenne, that lived along the Arkansas-river in Colorado and Kansas. Their name comes from Sioux word that means “Strange Speech People”, then they came into the Sioux lands, where no one understood their language. The Cheyenne tribe were divided into warrior clans, and this is the names; 

RITUALS AND CEREMONIES 

The ceremonies in the Cheyenne tribe and many other Indians from the Great Plains, included the Sweat Lodge ceremony, the Vision quest and the terrifying Sundance ceremony  

THE CHEYENNE “HOME” 

They lived in tent homes called tepees. The tepee was constructed from wooden poles, and then was covered with weather-proof animal skin. The tepee is cone shaped, with flaps to the entrance, and at the top the tepee had an open smoke hole. The inside the tepee had a few furniture. They used the buffalo skin to the seating, bedding and covers. The fireplace was built in the middle of the tepee to cooking and heating. Most tepees were about 12 to 16 feet in diameter at the bottom. This type home suited the nomadic lifestyle of the Cheyenne tribe. The tepees were easy and quick to move.