FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Question
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to sleep on
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to carry babies
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to carry buffalo back to camp
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to eat
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Detailed explanation-1: -Secured with sinew, a basket or platform was suspended between the two poles that dragged behind the animal. This was the part of the travois that carried household baggage, firewood, parfleches full of bison meat or other food and the tipi cover.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because horses could haul larger loads, travois increased in size, and so did tipis. A travois is a frame used to drag loads over land. The muscle to move it was first provided by dogs, and later-much more efficiently-by horses.
Detailed explanation-3: -A travois could either be loaded by piling goods atop the bare frame and tying them in place, or by first stretching cloth or leather over the frame to hold the load to be dragged.
Detailed explanation-4: -: a simple vehicle used by Plains Indians consisting of two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for the load.