INDIAN HOMES

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INDIAN HOMES
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AIMS

• To look at the main type of Indian homes.
• To use sources to find out the advantages and
  disadvantages of these homes.

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OUTCOME

• How will I demonstrate my understanding?
• Producing a table of the advantages and
  disadvantages of Indian homes.
• Producing a labelled diagram of an Indian home.

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TASK 1

• Divide your page into two.
• Put two headings advantages and disadvantages of
  a tipi.
• Use the information from the following sources
  list all the advantages and disadvantages of a
  tipi.
• Note the tipi was also known as a lodge.

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George Caitlin, 1841

• The lodges are taken down in a few minutes by
  the women and easily transported to any part of
  the country where they wish to camp. They
  generally move six to eight times in the summer,
  following the immense herds of buffalo I saw an
  encampment of Sioux, consisting of six hundred
  lodgespacked and on the move in a very few
  minutes

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Chief Flying Hawk

• The tipi is always clean, warm in winter and
  cool in summer.

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Colonel R. I. Dodge, 1877

• In this small space are often crowded eight or
  ten persons, possibly of three or four different
  families. Since the cooking, eating, living and
  sleeping are all done in the one room, it soon
  becomes incredible filthy.

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Flying Hawk, 1947

• The white man builds big house, cost much money,
  like big cage, shut out sun, can never move. The
  tipi is much better to live in always clean,
  warm in winter, cool in summer, easy to move.

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THE TIPI

• Made from wooden poles and buffalo skins.
• Looked after by the women.
• Conical shape could resist the strong winds.
• Fire in the middle for cooking and warmth.
• It could be banked with earth for warmth.
• Could be packed up and moved quickly.
• Everybody had their own place.

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TASK 2

• Turn to page 16 in Martin and Shepherd.
• Make a labelled copy of source 1.