Title: Facts for Kids: Sioux Indians (Lakota and Dakota)
Headings: Learn More About The Dakota and Lakota Indians
Learn More About The Dakota and Lakota Indians
Content: What was Sioux clothing like? Did they wear feather headdresses and face paint? Sioux women wore long deerskin or elkskin dresses. Sioux men wore breechcloths and leggings and buckskin shirts. The Sioux also wore moccasins on their feet and buffalo-hide robes in bad weather. In colonial times, the Sioux adapted European costume such as vests, cloth dresses, and blanket robes. Here are more pictures of Sioux clothing styles, and some photographs and links about Native American clothes in general. Sioux warriors and chiefs were well-known for their impressive Native American Indan headdresses , but they didn't wear them in everyday life. Both Sioux men and women wore their hair long, cutting it only when they were in mourning. There were many different traditional Sioux hairstyles, but long braids were the most common.