religious beliefs

• everything in nature had a spirit
• people had to work with nature instead of trying to tame it
• contact the spirit world through vision quest - they would be guided by a spirit animal
• dance a special ritual dance to enter the spirit world - sun dance
• land was sacred - it was the mother to IP - Black Hill of South Dakota (mount Rushmore)
• all IP had their own hunting areas - treaties were agreed between tribes
• raids would only go ahead if the raiders knew they could escape - they raided for horses, food, weapons and people
• Counting coup 


  try to get a Tolkien from the enemy without hurting them - shows you got very close to them - otherwise all warriors would be killed in raids and there would be no one to hunt