All About The Lakota By. Kera Blue, Keoyna Mansfield , and Zamare Parker-Neal
All about the Lakota History core 3
Mrs. Venable Kera Blue, Keoyna Mansfield And Zamare Parker-Neal
March 7,2016
Lakota’s location The Lakota lived in the Great Plains. That they lived in alone that we know about today. The land that they usually lived on flat land.
Lakota’s location Those states were Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, South & North Dakota, Colorado, Kansas, & Iowa.
Lakota shelter There shelters were teepee’s & lodges. They where made of animal skins, wood , sticks , & bones. The type of animal skin usually was buffalo skin. Wood, sticks , and bones where used to hold up the teepee’s and lodges. There usually where 10 poles. The lodges usually held more than 1 family
Shelter images
Lakota: diet
Lakota: The lakota ate mostly beans, corn, bread, and buffalo.
They roasted the meats over a fire.
They also put the vegetables in a dish and cooked them over a fire.
Before they cooked the buffalo they had to skin it . They used every part of the buffalo for different things.
They used the skin for clothing and also for the shelter.
Lakota:clothing LAKOTA: The Lakota's wore leggings ,very thick jackets ,dresses ,shirts and shoes.
LAKOTA: Clothing The shirts and dresses were made out of buffalo skin and sinew.
Lakota: clothing LAKOTA: The jackets were a European style jacket made with tanned leather and dyed yellow. The shirts were made of elk with a beaded alternating pattern.
Lakota:clothing LAKOTA: Almost all of the clothing was made out of buffalo skin. They also wore shoes made also by buffalo skin and looked just like the shirts and jackets.
Arts & Crafts The Lakota women made beads to use as jewelry or wrapped around gourds. They used beads made from shell, coral, and turquoise. They used the beads to form them into colorful geometric patterns. To make bead stands a craftsperson would stitch the beads together using string , sinew, threads , or wire. This was usually done by hand.
Arts & Crafts Native Americans believed their air was filled with both good and bad dreams. Dream catchers were made from feathers , horsehairs, and beads. They were put in tipis. Good dreams passed through the center hole and the bad were trapped in the web.
Arts & Crafts Buffalo-hide paintings were made by men since they hunted. This craft was made from buffalo-hides. The paintings often told stories. They were worn in the winter with the fur inside for warmth and also so the painting were shown. Spirit leaders wore special hides.
Work Cited Page Lakota Traditional Food." Hubpages. N.p., n.d. Web "Native American Facts for Kids." Native Languages of the Americas. Native Languages of the Americas, 1998. Web. 7 Mar. 2016.