The Great Plains Indians Complete Text - Lingua

By this time the seven tribes, while retaining 108 a number of distinctive 109 features 110
such as language, shared many customs and ways derived 111 from becoming
nomadic buffalo hunting horse oriented cultures.
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There was no more dramatic sight on the plains than hundreds of tepees silhouetted
against the setting sun. Life on the plains for the Indian nations that followed the
buffalo required a living structure that was big enough to hold a family, was hot in the
winter and cool in the summer, sturdy against the fierce prairie winds and perhaps
most importantly the Plains Indians needed a structure that was readily transportable,
easily assembled and disassembled.
The tepee fit their needs perfectly. In the Sioux language tepee meant dwelling.
The upper Great Lakes tribes had smaller versions of the tepee, seen in historic
photographs. The tepee size for those early Indians was restricted 112 by the lack of
carrying capacity of the domestic dogs, that were used for transportation. That
restriction was removed with the arrival of the horse. The materials for a tepee came
from the buffalo and the large poles 113 came from pine 114 woods.
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culminated – to culminate – to reach the highest point or specified conclusion – gipfeln, den Höhepunkt
erreichen
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stable – firmly established, not likely to change – dauerhaft, beständig
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retaining – to retain – to continue to have something, to hold – beibehalten
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distinctive – characteristic – unverwechselbar, deutlich
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features – the feature – a distinctive aspect or characteristic – die besonderen Merkmale
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derived – to derive from – to draw or receive from, to obtain – abgeleitet von, herkommen, herrühren von
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restricted – to restrict – to put a limit or control on something – eingeschränkt, begrenzt
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poles – the pole – a long, round, thin piece of wood or other material – die Stangen
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