Ghost Dance

Native Americans Portraits 

Destroyed homes 

• The Native Americans found it hard to hold their culture practices at their homes. 
• Native Americans were wanted by the whites and they would do anything to take the away.
• One of the leaders Sitting Bull cabin was surrounded by the whites and also was killed in front of their followers.
• After their leader was killed his followers packed their things and moved to the central of Dakota.
• Native Americans were not allowed to practice their culture, beliefs and values.

Sitting Bull

• Sitting Bull was one of the leaders and he preferred to die as an Indian not as a  white settler.
• The white settlers wanted to arrest Sitting Bull so the went to his house and resounded it with soldiers.
• He agreed to go peacefully and than they started to take his clothes and he resisted.
• He got shot twice one in the head. 
• His followers than went to another reservation because they were so scared.

Ghost Dance

• The Ghost Dance was part of their religion.
• They thought it would protect them from the soldiers bullets.
• It ended as a belief which the massacre at Wounded Knee.
• Sitting Bull was one of the main followers of the Ghost Dance belief.
• .The Ghost Dance gave hope to the Sioux.

Tee-Pee

• The Tee-pee was a highly portable and highly sturdy home for the plain Indians.
• Tee-pee was made of buffalo hide.
• The Tee-pee proved warm in the winter and cool in the summer, due to it's construction and venting through the top poles.
• The Tepee was formed by wrapping the buffalo hides around tall poles leaving an open space at the top.
• When the Tee-pee was dismantled the hides and poles formed a carrier for the Indians possessions.