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Created by Mary, Breanna, Joey, and Danny

Individual aboriginal Tribes

Arts

Clothing

-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

Plains(Cree)

-Pipes, spoons,and bowl were carved with careful precision

-Men used buffalo hide as footwear

Introduction:

-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

How and What They Hunted for Food

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

Location:

-They used buffalo hunts to capture buffaloes quickly

-Lived mainly in Alberta and Saskatchewan

-Also in parts of Manitoba and Montana

Structure and society

-Chief advised

-Leader was wise and patient

- Children's games had taught life skills

-In many clans, whole village took care of their children

Transportation

-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.

Swampy Cree

Woods Cree

- Manitoba

Housing/Shelter

-Lived in Saskatchewan and Manitoba

-Sometimes also called West Main Cree or Lowland Cree

Spiritual Beliefs

-Spoke Algonquian

-Spoke two dialects of the Swampy Cree language

Diet

-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

Ceremonies

-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

Tools

-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

THE END

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