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Native People of the Prairies and Plains
This trunk is designed to support the Indian Land Tenure Curriculum, with a focus on the Prairies and Plains region of the U.S.  There are many suggested lessons and activities embedded in the cultural description of the items.  In addition, there are several more formal lessons included in this binder.  They are:

•    Investigating Prairies and Plains Native Cultures through Folktales
•    Native Philosophy and the Science of Ecology
•    Gifts of Nature in the Plains and Prairies
•    The Hidatsa, Plains Indian Farmers
•    Calculating Probabilities, The Cheyenne Plum Stone Dice Game

Materials in Trunk:

Teacher Resource Binder
Laminated map of Indian Nations
Waheenee:  An Indian Girl’s Story Told by Herself to Gilbert L. Wilson, by
Jeffrey R. Hanson
Indian Boyhood, by Charles A. Eastman
The War Shirt, by Bently Spang
Drumbeat, Heartbeat:  A Celebration of the Pow Wow, by Susan Braine
Wasna’ (Pemmican)
Dried corn
Leather doll
Shell necklace
Bear claw necklace
Hair pipe necklace
Wampum beads
Travois and dog
Plumstone dice games (2--Cheyenne and Ponca)
Deer scapula hoe
Horn spoon
Deer legbone awl
Pony
Beaded bag
Bull boat model with oar
moccasins