Essay On The Sioux Tribe

Dakota (Sioux)

The Sioux used horses to catch their main food source buffalo.They grew very few crops, and mostly traded weapons and meat with other tribes for corn.The main region for the sioux was the Northern Great Plains, which is North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Minnesota.Tree are one of the natural resources that this tribe used, which was a building material and weapons.The second resource is animals which they used for food and there pelt for clothes and around there Tipis.They also used the tail of buffalos for fly swatters.They used buffalo horns for tools and cups.They used pottery for making bowls and sometimes cups.

They used horses a lot to catch their main food source buffalo,since the horses were fast enough to catch

They used wood and pelt on animals they hunting, they wood use to stack up in a triangle and they would dig in the ground a little to make sure they can stack the sticks or branches up and then they would put the pelt around that to make it warm inside.They also built a fire inside the tipi to keep it warm enough to live in.

The Sioux tribe were famous for their hunting and warrior culture. They were a nomadic tribe who roamed the Great Plains hunting the buffalo. Buffalo was a big part of their culture they made a lot out of there skins like teppes and clothes shoes and things in the area.This tribe used tools primarily fashioned from animal bones and rocks, such as knives and arrowheads and like i said before they were nomadic and traveled with their food source and for like cups they used their hands to make pottery.

So mainly there main reason why they lived so long was because they followed the buffalo and only killed when they needed the meat if they just killed their food source would be gone this land probably would have been better if the “White Man” didn't come over and destroy what was theirs.They were a smart group of people for using what they found like bones of a dead animal i never would have done that. That's pretty