Join tribes from all over North America to celebrate our pasts at the First Annual Native American Pow Wow! Bring your tribe's favorite food to share, wear traditional clothing and have a model of your ancestor's home.

In your presentation, you are to show and discuss the following:

1. Foods eaten by your tribe. You should also have prepared one food for the class to share.

2. Clothing worn by your tribe. You should wear one piece of clothing that resembles your tribe's clothing.

3. Your ancestor's shelter. Show a model of your ancestor's home.

4. Artwork or another special skill that your tribe is proud of. Demonstrate how it is done. If you cannot find a special skill, you may choose to learn about a tribe member who lived in the past.

Remember to present like YOU are members of the tribe!

1. Decide among yourselves which Native American tribe your want to represent. Then each of you go to the chart and write your names next to your chosen tribe.

The tribes are:
1. Cherokee

2. Navajo

3. Seminole

4. Shoshone

5. Sioux / Lakota

6. Tlingit

2. Each of you choose a different part of your tribe's life to research.   Choose among the following:

Food    Clothing    Homes    Artwork

3. Write your tribe name and topic on a piece of paper and begin learning about it. The following sites can help you. Just click on the links under your tribe and topic. Remember to take notes about what you learn. You also can print pictures that will help others better see what life was like for your tribe in the past.

You will see this folder throughout this webquest. Click on it to return to the top of the page.

Cherokee Indians

artwork, clothing, food, and homes

art -Sequoyah, inventor of Cherokee written language

art and clothing - beadwork

clothing - gift shop

food - hunters, farmers and gatherers

food - deer god

food - farming

food - hunting

food - livestock

food, clothing and artwork -Eastern Woodland Indians

homes - many types of houses

homes

homes - picture of early rectangle home

Navajo Indians

artwork -jewelry

artwork - weaving

artwork - woman weaving on traditional loom

artwork - pictures of blankets and rugs

artwork, food, and homes - Navajo Reports

clothing - Navajo sheep

food - traditional food

food -gardening

food - information reported by second graders

food -farming

home - building a hogan

map showing tribe in United States and homes, clothing , food and artwork

Seminole Indians

artwork- paintings

artwork -baskets

clothing - colorful patchwork

clothing - dolls

food - yesterday and today

homes -chickee

food, clothing, homes and artwork - second grade report

Look under Daily Life: food, clothing and homes

Shoshone Indians

food, clothing and homes -student report

food - click on Food/Hunting

food and homes

homes - click on Homes

food and clothing

artwork - Warrior art

artwork - click on Art

Sioux (Lakota) Indians

artwork -pottery

artwork - Pow wow

artwork - click on The Circle of Relatives

clothing - pictures of clothing from the Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum

food, clothing and homes - Lakota Ways

map showing tribe in United States and pictures of homes, clothing, food and artwork

food, clothing and homes - click on All My Relatives

Tlingit Indians

artwork-Wayne Price, artist

artwork - Totem Poles

artwork - click on Trees

clothing - includes picture

map showing tribe in United States and pictures of homes clothing, food and artwork

home - Plank house

food - click on Partners with Nature

General Websites on Native Americans

http://www.kidskonnect.com/NativeAmerican/NativeAmericans.html

http://www.greatdreams.com/nativeb.htm

4. After you have found lots of interesting things about your topic, look under the heading of your topic to see what you are to make.

Food

Make a poster showing many of the foods eaten by your tribe. Include how the food was gotten and where it was found. Label your pictures. Bring in a sample of a food eaten by your tribe. Bring in enough for everyone to taste.

Clothing

Make a poster showing clothing worn by members of your tribe. Include where the material came from and how it was made. Label your pictures. Wear something that looks like a piece of clothing from the past.

Home

Make a model of your ancestor's home. Try to use materials similar to what was used long ago. Then make a poster showing the inside of the home. Include where the family slept. Label your pictures.

Special skills like Artwork, Music or Dance

Show on posterboard some of the special skills of your tribe. Label your pictures. Learn to do one of them. Make a piece of artwork, play some music or show a dance to the class.

5. With your teammates, present what you learned about your tribe to the class.

Cherokee Indians

http://www.runningdeerslonghouse.com/webdoc153.htm

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/famous/sequoyah.htm

http://www.berrybeadwork.com/moccasins.html

http://cherokeetrails.com/

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002188F/

http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/woodland2.html

Navajo Indians

http://www.antelopehouse.com/jewel_main1.html

http://www.weta.org/productions/legacy/weaving/teachers.html

http://www.santaferanch.com/sfbr2.html

http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/%7ehixson/cuff/Navajo.html

http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/sheep.html

http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/navajofood.htm

http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/garden.html

http://inkido.indiana.edu/w310work/romac/navajo.htm

http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/hogan.html

Seminole Indians

http://www.seminoletribe.com/index.shtml

http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/%7ehixson/cuff/Seminole.html

http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/cultural/northamerica/seminole.html

Shoshone Indians

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow4/feb99/mccullough/showit.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/J003144/

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/native/sho.html

http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/cultural/northamerica/shoshoni.html

http://www.warriorart.com/

Sioux ( Lakota) Indians

http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Peterson/Moccasin.html

http://www.littlesioux.org/frmculture2.html

http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/lakota/index.html

http://www.littlesioux.org/frmmuseum2.html

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/homeland/lakota.html

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/fletcher.html

Tlingit Indians

http://www.alaskaindianarts.com/wayneprice.html

http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/tlingett.htm

http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/tlingit/

Books

Byrd, Baylor. I'm Your Brother (1976). New York: MacMillan

Cherry, Lynn. A River Ran Wild.

Cohen, Caron Lee. The Mud Pony (1988). New York: Scholastic (Plains Indians)

dePaola, Tomie. The Legend of the Bluebonnet (1983). New York: Scholastic (Plains Indians)

dePaola, Tomie. The Legend of Indian Paintbrush (1993). New York: Scholastic (Plains Indians)

Doherty, Craig & Katherine. The Apaches and the Navajo (1991). New York: Franklin Watts

Goble, Paul. The Gift of the Sacred Dog (1980). New York: MacMillan (Plains Indians)

Gorsline, Marie &Douglas. North American Indians (1977). New York: Random House

Hawk, Richard. A, B, C's The American Indian Way (1988). California: Sierra Oaks

Jeffers, S. Brother Eagle, Sister Sky (1991). New York: Scholastic (Northwest Indians)

Landau, Elaine. The Sioux (1991). New York: Franklin Watts

Martin, B. & J. Archambault. Knots on a Counting Rope (1987). New York: Trumpet (Southwest)

Martini, Teri. Indians (1982). Chicago: Childrens Press

McDermott, G. Arrow to the Sun (1974). New York: Penguin Books (Southwest - Pueblo)

Miles, M. Annie & the Old One (1971). Boston: Little Brown (Southwest - Navajo)

Credits

Poison's Native American Icons - Web Graphics

http://members.aol.com/poison64/nagifs/gifs.html

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Now you have walked in a Native American's moccasins, learning what it was like for these people in the past. Times have changed, and they keep changing. It is important to look back and learn from the past.