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-They painted cree bison pounds
-Sun dance mitation
-Both men and women wore leggings which allowed protection
- Decorated plains of tipi
- Craft worked and artwork was never exclusive from function
-Both genders also relied on buffalo robes to cover the top of their body
-Pipes, spoons,and bowl were carved with careful precision
-Men used buffalo hide as footwear
-Paintings on tipis often depicted the earthly world and the spiritual world with paintings of animals, and celestial symbols
-Women wore knee-length dresses that had 2 shoulder straps
-Plains located in interior plains
-In the winter the women found warmth in leather mittens
-40 million buffaloes lived in plains
-When hunting buffalo;hunters wore larger buffalo head to cover more of their heads
- The plains Cree dialect is spoken by about 34,000 people
types of animals:
-Horses, buffaloes, bison's, vegetables, nuts, foxes, grizzly bears, moose, elk, lynx (etc)
-Used traps, blinds, cliffs, falls, weapons such as arrows, guns, bows, corral
-They used buffalo hunts to capture buffaloes quickly
-Lived mainly in Alberta and Saskatchewan
-Also in parts of Manitoba and Montana
-Chief advised
-Leader was wise and patient
- Children's games had taught life skills
-In many clans, whole village took care of their children
-women took care for newborns and elders had to name them
-Dogs and horses was originally used for transporting supplies on a travois or sled.
-Each year the Cree would move to the same camps as last year where they know they can find food
-In the spring the cree would follow Buffalo to the prairies to avoid flooding.
- Manitoba
-Lived in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
-Sometimes also called West Main Cree or Lowland Cree
-Spoke Algonquian
-Spoke two dialects of the Swampy Cree language
-Religious life was based on relations with animals and other spirits
-Sun Dance was a well known belief
-Dancers weren't allowed to eat, drink or have rest until it was all over
-The Cree people used animal
hide shelters made of buffalo
hide and pine poles called a tipi.
-The tipi was good because it was water proof, and weather-hardy
-The Cree lived in tipis because
they moved camps often so it had to be easily constructed and portable
-Food was always their first priority
-Buffalo is their main source
-Would then be dried or cooked into soup and Pemmican
-Pemmican is basically a paste of the buffalo meat, that is dried up and pounded and mixed in with other ingredients
-Horse Dance
-summons spiritual energy
-performed after the arrival of the horses on the plains
-during the Horse Dance everyone must believe in harmony
-The Cree have some of the tools we would have today like the hammer and the knife
-The weapons the Cree used were the tomahawk, warrior shield,spears, bows and arrows
-The tools they used were mainly made of wood, stone, and bones