Lakota Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 5. Each Lakota band is politically autonomous, which means it has its own land and leadership and makes decisions _________ of other Lakota bands.
  2. 7. Houses belonged to the ________ in the Lakota tribes.
  3. 10. The Lakota traded regularly with other tribes of the Great Plains. They particularly liked to trade buffalo hides and meat to tribes like the Arikara in exchange for corn. These tribes usually communicated using American Indian ____ _________.
  4. 11. Lakota culture centered around the ________ hunt, which was an integral part of the Lakota indigenous way of existence.
  5. 12. The Lakota people are historically ________ and used the sun and stars as the guide to their migration.
  6. 14. The Lakotas wore _______ on their feet, which they often decorated with elaborate beadwork.
  7. 15. Lakota warriors used bows and arrows, spears, tomahawks, and buffalo-hide ________.
  8. 16. The Lakota tribe also became the most powerful military power amongst the Plains tribes and would wage fierce ________ against the U.S. Army for land rights during the 19th century.
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  1. 1. Once Europeans introduced ________ to North America, the Lakota became known as expert riders and traveled greater distances.
  2. 2. Lakota mothers, like many Native Americans, traditionally carried their babies in _________ on their backs.
  3. 3. Most of their diet was _______, especially buffalo, elk and deer, which they cooked in pits or dried and pounded into pemmican.
  4. 4. The Lakota people lived in large buffalo-hide tents called tipis (or ________).
  5. 6. While numerous land ________ were signed between the Sioux and the U.S. Army in the 1800s, they were subsequently broken by the American government in order to give white settlers access to gold and other natural resources found on Native American land.
  6. 8. Both Lakota men and women wore their hair long, cutting it only when they were in mourning. There were many different traditional Lakota hairstyles, but long ________ were the most common.
  7. 9. Lakota women wore long _________ or elkskin dresses.
  8. 13. Originally the Lakotas used ________ pulling travois (a kind of drag sled) to help them carry their belongings.