Work on the way of life of the Plains Indians in America

Whether you are preparing a brochure or presentation your text book has a lot of material on the various topics that you are studying.

You might like to try and find some further information by using the internet. The various items will tell you different stories and you may well find some interesting pictures to add to your work.

If you open up a word document for yourself you can transfer pictures and make notes on what you find. These can then be used in your brochure or presentation.

Information can be difficult to find – but if you use the following sites you should be able to find something useful on the American Indians way of life

 

Native American Indian sites

Just click on the site that you wish – the first two give a comprehensive indexes of which the first is recommended

http://www.collections.ic.gc..ca/luxton/index.htm

This site gives 4 titles the best three of which are Hunter/Warrior; Spiritual Life and Daily Life. Click on these for additional information on most of your research topics

 

http://www.crystalinks.com/nativeamer.html

If you use the above site you will find a lengthy index which is a little difficult to read and it can be hard to find what you want. Some of the titles will help – particularly if you are looking for something about music/dance, faith etc.

If you look up one of the tribes you can generally find a lot of information about the food, clothing and general way of life of that particular people

For example http://www.crystalinks.com/apache.html has a lot of clearly written information about the Apache Tribe

http://www.crystalinks.com/powwow.html tells you about the dance known as the powwow

http://www.crystalinks.com/cheyenne.html gives some information about the history and way of life of the famous Cheyenne tribe

 

http://www.crystalinks.com/sundance.html gives much more information on the Sun Dance whilst

http://www.crystalinks.com/sioux.html gives information about the warrior Sioux tribe from which you can find the stories of individual warrior leaders.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=73595&tocid=0 gives information on the tent or Tipis used by the Indian Tribes whilst http://www.reesetipis.com/ gives a sales pitch for the Tipi and a good picture

 

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