Buffalo hide tipi This tipi is made from 3 13 buffalo hides sewn Explores the culture, arts, and histories of Plains together with sinew, which is made from buffalo tendons. Indian peoples. The museum also presents the Plains Indian people made use of lives of Plains Indian people today. nearly every part of the buffalo. They used meat for food; hide for clothing, robes, and lodges; and 3 SHIELDS AND HORN bones for tools. BONNETS Plains 4 2 Indian men painted 2 their shields with powerful symbols NA.108.13 Powwow 6 such as bears, eagles, buffalo, or 1 stars. The strong shields made Today’s powwows include singing and of thick buffalo hide protected 4 dancing as a way to bring families and men in battle. Some war leaders friends together. They are competitions where participants are judged on both dance style and and warriors wore buffalo horn hidatsa earth lodge bonnets that sometimes had clothing. Individuals use their tribe’s traditions 5 to create the dances, music, and clothing for eagle feathers. These bonnets Some Plains Indian powwows. show the importance of buffalo tribes were farmers and Adam Tsosie Nordwall, Shoshone- 6 to Plains Indian people. Chippewa-Navajo, Fallon, Nevada. lived in earth lodges part of Photo by Sean Campbell the year. When they traveled on long buffalo hunts, they lived in tipis. One family living Plains Indian people designed tipis to Cheyenne reservation house in an earth lodge might have take them down and set them up quickly. migration 1 included children, parents, and This was perfect, since they often moved as During the late 1800’s Indian grandparents. scene they followed the buffalo herds. Some Plains 5 people no longer lived in round and crow Indian people lived in tipis made out of dwellings, but were told they had to canvas tipi buffalo hides. In the late 1800’s they move into reservation houses. Their began making canvas tipis because new square dwellings came with a hunters had killed most of plot of land that men were asked to the buffalo. farm, while women tended to the house. Camp life and ceremonies were discouraged and sometimes even banned by the U.S. government. now it’s your turn: just the facts:

What figures didyou see what do on the shields? Why do you think Plains Indian men painted these you think? figures? The big NA.108.16 ?

Compare the advantages and disadvantages of the migration lifestyle? question

How are the canvas tipi and the buffalo Compare how you hide tipi similar or different? celebrate your culture and What are some differences between the how Plains Indians celebrate reservation house and the earth lodge? theirs today? tell your side of the story let’s make it relevant

How is your home different from the tipi, What area or object of the Plains Indian Mu- earth lodge, and reservation home? How is it seum was your favorite and why? the same? Thank you Sinclair for generously supporting the MILES program! Was there one area or object that you did Plains Indians have told stories for generations using art and storytelling. How does your not know about before visiting the museum? Buffalo Bill Center of the West family tell stories? What is one of these 720 Sheridan Avenue | Cody, Wyoming 82414 What did you learn? stories? 307-587-4771 | www.centerofthewest.org