Siksika Tribe Case Study

Physical Needs To hunt with efficiently the hunters needed to understand the environments that they lived and the habits of animals that they hunted. The Siksika tribe wore clothes made of animal skins that were either deer or buffalo. Clothing was to be sewn from sinew. The mittens and robes that the tribe had for the winter were all a reality because of the hide of a buffalo. Because the buffalo herds moved from place to place, so did the Siksika tribes. So their shelters in a way had to be portable. To solve this problem the tribes made their shelters from teepees which could be put togethe in-
-to a shelter and then be taken apart again. The tribe used tools and made them using their surroundings. Some of the tools that they used were the
Some of the surrounding materials used to make the tools were wood, stone, and bone. In the winter the tribes had to live in river valleys that had to have been sheltered or maybe the foothills of the rocky mountains, they lived in small family groups. However in the spring and summer they were much more active.
When spring came the “Siksika’s” moved into the prairie where they were joined by other little family groups. In the summers they came together in these huge groups for the buffalo hunt. They HAD to cooperate to kill the large animals such as the buffalo. Some groups went to chase the buffalo over the cliffs. Others chased them into pounds, in case you didn’t know pounds were these areas that were enclosed in bushes. Most of the “Siksika’s” killed the buffalo’s with bow and arrows or maybe spears. The
Siksika were careful not to waste ANY parts of the buffalo but if you want to read more about my discoveries with their physioloical go and read the part of this pamphlet that says physiological needs.

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