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Points of Chapter 1 (Plains Indians Society Organisation (Men - hunted and…
Points of Chapter 1
Plains Indians Society Organisation
Men - hunted and protected
Women - tipi, food/water, clothing
Children - no school
Old people - advice in council
Marriage - usually love, polygamy - all women cared for, either could divorce
Meet as nation every year
Council - important decisions made
Meet as nation, bands not bound by decision
Beliefs about Life and Nature
Everything contained spirits which influenced lives
Wakan Tanka - God
Contact spirits through visions - medicine man/women
Came from earth and returned to it when dead
Ploughing like ripping mother's breast
Plains Indians - Ways and Means of Survival
Nomadic
Band - basic unit of Plains Indians society
No ownership of land
Horses
Hunt buffalo
Raid over long distances
Steal for wealth
Attitudes to war
Wasn't heroic to die
Steal horses/revenge/destroy enemies/rivalry for space
Scalps - trophy, couldn't fight in afterlife
Counting coup better than killing
Hunting Buffalo
Buffalo dance - call on spirits
2/3 a year
Importance of Buffalo
All parts of buffalo used
Buffalo crucial to survival
Tipi
Home of each family
Furs and wooden poles
US Government Policy
Westward movement encouraged
Indians barrier to 'manifest destiny'