The life of the Sioux(Lakota)

Created by: Jaila

Sargent, Dachanna Pruden,

Isabella Johnson, and Destiny

Sabb

Chapter 3 Where do the Lakota`s live.

They live all over the place. They live North Dakota , South Dakota ,

Minnesota , and Wisconsin . If u look at the the map u can see all the

places they where. They live in cold , and snowy places.

Transportation How did they travel from place to place??? Lakota Indians traveled by birchbark , dugout canoes, over land , and dogs pulling travois(a kind of drag sled)… But once the Eurpeons introduced horses to North America the Lakota Indians bacame known as expert riders and traveled greater distances…

Chapter 6 What was there shelter?

Lakota's lived in teepees, there teepees were big inside but

it looked small on the inside. If they didn’t live in a teepee

they lived in a longhouse, longhouses are big they can fit

up to one family that is 20 people.

Chapter 1 The Sioux(Lakota) clothing

The Lakota tribe was very creative with clothing. The

women wore long deer skin or elk skin dresses that the

men had hunted. The men wore breechcloths, leggings,

and buckskin. When the Lakota tribe had bad weather they

wore moccasins on their feet and buffalo hide robes to

cover their warm bodies.

Chapter 2 The Sioux(Lakota) Transportation

The tribes transportation was a phenomenal

success. They made canoes and birch bark.

They mostly traveled over land. Soon they were

the ones who introduced horse riding to America.

Chapter 4

What did the lakota`s

make.

They made pottery , beadwork , clothes , peace pipes , parfleche , bufalo

hide paintings , and porcupine quillwork. They did not have the stuff we

have today so they had make things from nature to make the pretty

things they made.

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Chapter 7

What did they eat?

Lakota's ate mainly meat especially elk, buffalo, and deer,

They also ate choke berries any kind of fruit and potato's,

since they didn’t have any technology to cook their food

they had to dry and pound them into pemmican's or thry

cooked them in a pit.