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Which Indian tribes wear head dress symbolizing a bird?

What is the significance of the bird symbol?
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iklilian iklilian
 
 October 19, 2009 04:01 PM
The plain indians wear head dress symbolizing a bird. The bird feathers signifies bravery and you can't just wear it, you have to earn it either in a battle or as a act of bravery doing sopmething to defend the tribe, save a life or scalp an enemy.
It is not just an ornament.
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http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/article/USA/American-Indian-Head-D...
http://www.snowwowl.com/histplainsindianheaddress1.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=FRr0XCFnMtgC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&...

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October 19, 2009 07:29 PM
Will name the tribes?

How does the chief's head dress differ from the warriors head dress?

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iklilian iklilian
 
October 20, 2009 02:45 AM
The plain indian tribes include the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache , Plains Cree, Sarsi, Sioux, Shoshone, and Tonkawa

The warrior wears a head dress called the trailer warbonnet ,a headdresse with single or double rows of eagle feathers descending in a long 'tail' all the way to the ground, while the chief wears what is called a halo warbonnets which is a headdress with eagle feathers fanned out around the face in an oval shape.

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