Native Americans (Mrs. Hill)

General History and Background

• Learn About Native Americans -- great website full of information.

• Native American Website for Children -- looks at four tribes and their customs and beliefs.

• Native American Chart -- list of tribes and information on their cultures.

Woodland Tribes

• First Americans: Iroquois Confederacy

• Iroquois Confederacy

• The Iroquois of the Northeast

• Iroquois Indian Fact Sheet 

• Iroquois Webquest

• The Narragansett Indian Tribe: A Local Legacy

• Northeast Tribes

• North Eastern Woodlands

• Scenes From the Eastern Woodlands

• Shawnee Indian Fact Sheet

• Shawnee Indians

• Village Life -- how the Powhatan tribe lived.

Plains Tribes

• First Americans: Lakota Sioux

• The Lakota of the Plains

• Plains Indian Tribes in Olden Times

• Plains Indians

• Tracking the Buffalo -- an interactive guide to exploring the role of the buffalo in Plains culture.

Southwest Tribes

• Commanche Indians --

• First Americans: Dine -- explores the Navajo nation.

• From Sheep to Loom: The Navajo Weaving Process

• Native American Cultures: The Anasazi and Pueblo Indians

• Native People: The Apache

• Southwest Native Americans

• Southwest Native Americans -- from Mr. Donn's site

Northwest Tribes

• American Indians: Northwest Bands -- gives a brief overview of shelter, clothing and food.

• First Americans: Tlingit

• Native Americans: The Northwest -- focuses mostly on the Haida tribe.

• Northwest Coastal Indians -- information from a school report.

• Northwest Indians

• Pacific Northwest Native Americans

Additional Information

• The First Thanksgiving -- compares the Pilgrims lifestyle to that of the Wampanoag tribe.

• Native Visions of the Natural World -- examines the beliefs of four different tribes.

• Pocohantas -- information from the Jamestown Rediscovery site.

• Native Americans on the Oregon Trail

• Woman Spirit -- famous Native American women.

• Great Chiefs and Leaders -- learn more about these important people.

• Shoshone Indians -- learn more about Sacagawe's tribe and their connection to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Click on the list to the left to read about other tribes encountered by the expedition.

• Native American Housing -- great pictures of various dwellings.

• Nez Perce Photographs -- scroll down to see some historical pictures of Chief Joseph and various other figures.

• Native American Names for Girls

• Native American Names for Boys

• Iroquois Vocabulary Words

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  Interactive Activities

• Be An Explorer -- click on a state to see what    Native American tribes are living there.

• Virtual Coloring Book -- fun way to color online.

• Virtual Paper Dolls -- click and drag the clothing to dress the Native American girl.

• Guess the Word Before Turtle Hides in His Shell -- fill in the blanks as you try to figure out the wild edible plant.

• Help Chimpmunk Find His Acorns -- use arrow keys to make your way around the maze.

• Ojibwemowin! -- Match the word to the pictures and click to here pronunciations.

• Shuttlecock and Battledoor -- online version that recreates a traditional Native American game.

• Interactive Beadwork Designer --color and string your own beads to create a design.

• Match the Basket Design -- fun matching game using traditional New England Ash Splint baskets.

• Weave a Virtual Wampum Belt -- design your own in this interactive activity.

• Things in a Wetu -- word search puzzle.

• Your Lunch: Then and Now -- pack your virtual lunch box and find out which foods were brought to America by Christopher Columbus and others and which were native to our country.

• Indian Dwellings: Mix and Match

• Indian Tribes Word Search

• Native American Tribes Word Search

• StorylineOnline: Knots on a Counting Rope -- no direct link -- you have to click on More Stories! to find it on the third list of books.
   

Native American Folktales

• Coyote and the Columbia -- from the Sahaptin/Salishan Tribes of Washington about the origin of the Columbia River.

• Coyote and the Whishpoosh -- from the Chinook tribe on how the Northwest tribes were formed.

• Why Opossum Has a Bare Tail -- from Creek tribe in Alabama.

• Windigo (Grades 4-5) -- gruesome tale from the Ojibwa First Nation.

• Rabbit Plays Tug-of-War -- a trickster tale from the Creek/Muscogee Tribe of Oklahoma.

• Native American Lore Index Page -- lots of stories here.

• Origin of the Animals -- legend from Apache folklore.

Teacher Zone

Activities & Crafts

• Native American Basketry -- slide show of various types of baskets made by tribes.

• Dreamcatchers and Various Crafts-- background information and directions on how to make several items.

• Inuit (Eskimo) Crafts

• Native American Crafts for Kids -- simple ideas from Enchanted Learning.

• Northwest Coastal Indian Crafts -- fairly simple idea for making a totem pole.

• Plains Indian Crafts -- cool idea for a peace pipe and great pictures of some war shields to go along with The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush.

• Southwest Indian Crafts -- more great ideas.

• American Indian Leather Painting

• Coloring Pages -- Hoop Dance1, Hoop Dance2, Warrior with bow, Warrior with spear, Native American Girl, Thunderbird

• Word Search of Tribes

• My Totem Pole -- worksheet for students to draw a totem pole representing their familes.

• Comparing Tribes -- a Venn diagram allowing students to compare two different tribes.

Lessons

• Kindergarten: Native Americans

• Kindergarten: Wampanoags

• Kindergarten: Navajo Tribe

• Kindergarten: Three Native American Groups

• First Grade Lesson: Children of Indian Folklore

• 3rd-5th:Native Americans Lesson Plan: The Navajo People

• 3rd-5th:Fun With Numbers -- Students write the Lakota Sioux words for number sentences

• 3rd-5th: Code Talkers --

  Students learn about the Navajo code talkers and use a Navajo code talkers' dictionary to create and decode secret messages.

• 5th: Native American Music: Call and Response

• K-5: Comparing Cinderella and The Rough-Face Girl