The Sioux Tribe

The Sioux Tribe
By Kayden and Gannon

The Sioux tribe was one of the most powerful tribes of the plains. By reading our work you will learn about our tribe. You will learn about what we ate, our homes, ceremony’s, clothes, homeland, and our weapons, and tools. Last but not least you will also learn what the Sioux tribe is doing today.

There is a few things the Sioux tribe ate. One thing we ate pemmican made out of wild cherry, dried buffalo smashed into powder, and buffalo fat. Pemmican is the thing that we mostly ate during winter. We made and ate a lot of it. This was a main food. We hunted lots of buffalo to make pemmican and it took us a long time to find wild cherries. Finally I will tell you about deer meet. Deer meet is good because we can make jerky out of it. Jerky is made out of dried deer. Jerky was good for our tribe because we can save it for winter. Now you know two things our tribe ate.

I will tell you two things about our homes. First I will tell you about our teepee. Our teepee was made out of long sticks and buffalo skin. We also used logs to hold it up. Another home they lived in was the earth lodge. The earth lodge is under a hill covered with grass. In the winter the Sioux lived in the earth lodge and also to hold there horses in it too. The earth lodge was warmer then the teepee. Now you know about our homes.

I want you to know what is important about the sun dance ceremony. To began with the Sioux did the sun dance ceremony after a hunt. They did it to thank the buffalo for food. In the sun dance ceremony you put needles in your chest and tie a string to the needles. Next I will tell you how the sun dance ceremony is dangerous. The sun dance ceremony is dangerous because it can blind you because you are looking at the sun the whole time. The dance is dangerous because if you put needles in to far it can kill you. As one can see the Sun Dance ceremony had several important facts about it.

Two of the Sioux clothes I will tell you about are a vest and buffalo rob. To begin with they wore a vest made out of deer skin. After a hunt they would skin the deer and the men would sew it into vests and other clothes. They need these clothes to keep warm. Next I will tell you about the buffalo skin we wore. We wore a Buffalo robe in the winter. They skin the buffalo and then they had to stretch it and scrap it. Those are two clothes the Sioux wore.


I will tell you two facts about our homeland. First our homeland was wherever the buffalo went. We followed the buffalo because they were the main food source for our tribe. Without the buffalo we would not be able to make the stuff we had, like teepees, clothes, sleds and our tribe would have starved. The second fact about our habitat is it is in the Great Plains. The Great Plains is in the middle of the USA. Our area is as flat as a pancake, we have no mountains and it is covered with grass. Now you know two facts about are homeland.

The Sioux had many weapons and tools but there is one weapon and one tool our tribe had that I will tell you about. Before I tell you about a weapon, I will you tell you about the bone flesher. The bone flesher is for scraping guts out of the animal you killed. You make the bone flesher from the ribs of a buffalo. The next fact I will tell you about the tomahawk. You make the tomahawk by a stick and rock. The tomahawk was an ax it was also used in war. This is some of the tools and weapons we used.

The Sioux tribe has changed as time has past for several reasons. Number one we have reservations the army gave us. When we were conquered the army would took our land and put us on a piece of land called a reservation. Our reservation is in North Dakota. Next our tribe has changed because we no longer live in teepees. In North Dakota we live in cites in houses. As you can see our tribe has changed overtime.
In conclusion the Sioux tribe was one of the most powerful tribes in the Great Plains. They had a very interesting culture.