SIOUX

SIOUX INFORMATION

• The men wore deerskin leggings and buckskin shirts.
• Decorated the women's clothing with rabbit fur.

SIOUX.

• They lived in Dakota.
• Sioux made dugout canoes.
• They had events.
• The Sioux told each other stories.

FOOD

• Hunters hunted buffalo, elk, and deer.
• Hunters later cooked their kills in pits.
• The sioux also cooked choke berries.
• The Sioux were hunters and farmers.

HOMES

• There are tents called tepees.
• Carefully designed to set up and break down quickly.

CULTURE

• The Sioux is a tribe.
• This term,shortened and corrupted by French traders,resulted in retention of last syllable as " Sioux.
• Dakota" and " Lakota" mean " friends" or" allies.
• There are various Sioux divisions and each has important cultural , linguistic, territorial and political distinctions.