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USA: NATIVE PEOPLELife and customs
• more than 250 tribes everywhere in the USA
• tribes= groups of people who came together for a variety of
reasons
• residences: tepees, different houses
• clothes: robes, skirts, leggings, shirts, moccasins, fur
• family life: man could marry several women -> weddings were
simple
• animals: close connection to their animals = animals were sacred
• religion: believed in spirits, the soul of nature, power of dreams
• rituals: dances (sun-dance, re-dance), peace pipe, celebration of
dead
Cherokee
„The Cherokee are the most famous
tribe among the Native Americans,
but at the same time the ones we
know least about." Sioux
American painter Rev. Thomas E. Mails
-they called themselves Dakota
-they inhabited an area about 60.000
-Sioux means „little snake“
km² south of the Appalachian
-they lived in tepees
Mountains
-bisons were holy for them
-later they lived in reservations in
- rst they lived in North Carolina
Oklahoma
-later they lived in reservations in
-they were open-minded, honest
and hardworking, but in wars they
were wild, cunning and merciless
but…
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