The Lakota Sioux, are industrious, nomadic people with strong leaders, homemade clothes, and simple way of life eating what they kill and using every part of the animal. There other Sioux brothers called the Nakota and Dakota lived very close to them and they interacted frequently. Being forced out of there home they had to move North up to Oklahoma.
The Lakota are very nomadic people they have gone from place to place. Originally they lived on the northern plains of north america. “The Lakota are known as the Teton or Western Sioux”. In 1640 the Lakota probably lived closer to their Dakota relatives. “The Lakota began to move west for three reasons. First, conflict with neighboring tribes. Second, to follow the large herds of buffalo, which roamed the plains. Thirdly, to avoid the encroaching whites who were moving west”. The army sent troops to protect the white settlers, and conflicts over land were a way of life from the 1850s to the 1880s. Because more and more whites were coming into the plains, the Lakota were forced to change their way of life. The Lakota and other tribes signed treaties with the U.S. to return for such rationed goods as food, cloth, and tools. …show more content…
They did not complain about what they had to eat they hunted and killed any creatures they could find. Native animals include Buffalo, deer, elk, bear and wild turkey. The Lakota also collected roots and wild vegetables like spinach, prairie turnips and potatoes. When it was hard to find animals the tribe ate dried buffalo, or another name is
The Lakota are very nomadic people they have gone from place to place. Originally they lived on the northern plains of north america. “The Lakota are known as the Teton or Western Sioux”. In 1640 the Lakota probably lived closer to their Dakota relatives. “The Lakota began to move west for three reasons. First, conflict with neighboring tribes. Second, to follow the large herds of buffalo, which roamed the plains. Thirdly, to avoid the encroaching whites who were moving west”. The army sent troops to protect the white settlers, and conflicts over land were a way of life from the 1850s to the 1880s. Because more and more whites were coming into the plains, the Lakota were forced to change their way of life. The Lakota and other tribes signed treaties with the U.S. to return for such rationed goods as food, cloth, and tools. …show more content…
They did not complain about what they had to eat they hunted and killed any creatures they could find. Native animals include Buffalo, deer, elk, bear and wild turkey. The Lakota also collected roots and wild vegetables like spinach, prairie turnips and potatoes. When it was hard to find animals the tribe ate dried buffalo, or another name is