Native Americans
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This page provides resource materials for elementary classroom teachers interested in gathering information on Native Americans.
Native Americans in New England
Native American Music
Native American Dancing
Native American Arts and Crafts
Native American Languages
Native American Authors
Native American Rope Making
Native American Food
Native American Calendar
Other interesting links
Native Americans in New England
The Wampanoag Tribe
The Penobscot of Maine
Native American Music
Native American Music can be categorized by:
- Instrumentation
- Lyrical content
- Cadence of native languages spoken
Traditional lyrics & instrumentation include family songs, tribal ritual songs, Pow Wow Drum, rattle, and flute.
Some Native American musicians are listed here.
Native American Dancing
The Ricochet Western Dance Club offers you the opportunity to create your own dance steps with examples of original foot movements of Native American Dancers.
Native American Arts and Crafts
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian - This is the sixteenth museum of the Smithsonian Institution. It is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.
Native American Artists' Home Page - A collection of art work by Native American artists.
Native American Languages
Native Languages of the Americas - A website dedicated to the survival of Native American languages.
Native American Authors
Native American Authors - This website provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites.
Native American Rope Making
Native American Cordage -
Native Americans have worked with cordage (rope) technology since ancient times. Going back as far as 3,000 years ago there is archeological evidence of chord wrapped paddles, and netting marks on pottery. Dry desert caves in the Western United States still contain preserved sandals and other textiles of cordage that was hand-twisted thousands of years ago.
Native American Food
The single most important aspect of daily life for early Native American culture was getting enough food to eat. This meant constant hunting and fishing. Tribes living on the great plains in the Midwest lived off the Buffalo (Bison), whereas tribes located in the Northwest enjoyed the plentiful access to fish. Interestingly, the Apache of the Southwest did not consider fish to be clean food.
Native American Foods and Herbs -
A collection of Native American recipes and traditional foods.
Native American Food and Recipes -
Another collection of traditional as well as contemporary Native American foods.
Native American Calendar
The Moon played a very important role in a Native American's life. It helped them plan yearly dances, rituals, planting times, harvest times.
Ancient Calendars -Includes a description of Native American calendar.
Other interesting links
Official website of the Blackfeet Nation -
Early French trappers traveling in the Montana region saw Native Americans with black feet. They were really wearing blackened moccasins. The Buffalo hides used in the tops of their lodges (teepees) darkened in time from the smoke off their cooking fires. They discovered that this darkened Buffalo skin became waterproof and thus a perfect material for making shoes (moccasins).
Biographies of Native American Forefathers
Native American Images - Colorful & Dramatic Native American Image galleries
The Legend of the White Buffalo
