HELLO AND WELCOME TO TATONKA TRADING COMPANY. Our site is dedicated to Native American Indian
culture and is filled with information about all aspects of the American Indians. We hope you find our site informative and inspirational and will
give us feed back to help make our site better. Please Contact Us with your questions and comments. We would love to hear from you.
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Native American Indian Jewelry
included many forms of beaded strands comprised of different types of beads, shells, bone, horn, gem stones and precious metals that signified not only the accomplishment of the Indian but his warrior status as well. Native American Indian beaded jewelry also had many other meanings depending on the tribe's beliefs.
Throughout history many different mediums were used as a form of payment. Wampum is a type of bead made from a purple and white shell that was considered to be very valuable. So valuable that the American Indians used it to trade for goods and supplies at the "Trading Post".
Beaded necklaces were made by joining small pieces of bone that were hollowed along with natural stones, shells, buffalo and deer horns and other materials including silver ornaments on strings of leather or sinew. Often times these ornaments had spiritual meanings that were
specific to certain aspects within the tribes. Beads were often strung with different colors in certain order representing different meanings like sky or water or fire.
Our site is filled with many pages of interesting and factual information about Native American Indian culture, their history, Ceremonies and other interesting aspects of their life.
On our Tribal Territories page you will find maps that show the locations of the different tribes throughout history beginning with the actual 1899 Tribal Territories Map and links to other tribal territory information.
Our Famous Chiefs page you will find much information about some of the famous chiefs who were influential in the American Indian history.
About Tatonka page contains information regarding the role of the American Bison in the life of the American Indian.
If you ever wondered what the meanings of certain elements meant to the American Indians check out our Meanings page. There you will find factual and “whimsical” information regarding the beliefs of many items in the life of the Native American Indians.
You will learn about the simple housing that provided shelter to the Native American Indian on our About Tipi's page. Read about life in a tipi and more with interesting links to a site where you can learn how to be the first on your block to own your replica of a Plains Indian tipi from Earthworks Tipi.
The Rituals and Prayers pages contain a lot of information concerning the spiritual aspects of the Native American Indian’s beliefs and Ceremonies.
The quotes made famous by the mainstream Native American Indian leaders or Chiefs are on our Famous Quotes page. Chief Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph and Geronimo are just a few you will find here.
The Indian Art page is filled with beautiful paintings by various artists depicting American Indian life and culture from different periods throughout our history.
Last, on our About Us page you will meet Chaco (Chief as known by his friends) and his wife Vickie who are the insirtation behind this website.
Thanks for visiting us! Come back often
