Totem Pole



This is the totem pole my group and I made. Around its neck is an amulet.
The amulet has a picture of a hawk in front of a moon. It has that picture on
it because that is the name of our clan, The Moonhawks. It has a picture of a horse, a travois, a
buffalo, a river and a prairie at the bottom. It has a horse because the horses
made it easier to hunt the buffalo.  It has the buffalo because buffalo were essential
to the Western Great Plains Indians. It has a river because the buffalo and the horses
needed water to survive. It has the plains because that is where they lived. Last but
not least is the travois. A travois is two sticks tied together at the top. The Plains Indians
used it to carry their babies in good weather.