Native American Cultures

This year you read Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. In Chapter 2, "The Chickabiddy Starts a Story," Salamanca Tree Hiddle explains how she got her name. Her parents thought that her great-great-grandmother was a member of the Salamanca tribe but later discovered that it was actually the Seneca tribe. By that time, Salmanca's parents loved her name too much to change it.

In connection with reading Walk Two Moons, this year you have an opportunity to learn more about a Native American culture through research in the library and to create a PowerPoint presentaiton with a partner to share this new knowledge with your classmates. In entries below you will find information about your research project, information about library resources and links to our on-line databases and websites particularly chosen for this research project.

Native American Cultures Paired PowerPoint Project

Each of the following seven focus areas will earn each of the paired students 30 points:

• Format (Includes title page with 48 font name of tribe and 32 font names of students. Includes dark background slides with white 32 fonts for non-bolded text. Includes readable fonts. Includes no transition effects, nor any audio.) and Presentation (Well-rehearsed, clearly read, loudly read, equally divided among partners).


• Research (Needs a minimum of one print and one internet source--you can have more. Needs correct citations--Direct quote: "She said, the tribe...practiced their religion: (Creech 22). Indirect quote: The tribe was very religious (Creech 22). and needs correctly formatted Works Cited slide at end of presentation--input source material into http://citationmachine.net/, then copy and paste in alphabetical order).


• Writing Style (Includes sentence variety. Follows all Writing Rules. Includes spelling, grammar, and mechanics.)


• Geography/Habitat (Includes where the tribe lived and now lives. Includes description of the land and its resources past and present. Includes the housing.


• Interesting Customs (Includes the religious beliefs, government, celebrations, family description, warfare, language, clothing)


• Economy (Includes how the tribe feeds itself. Includes how the tribe trades goods and services--barter? money? Includes relations with other tirbes (not including warfare or interactions with European-Americans).


• History (Includes pre-colonial--before the European-Americans came. Includes interactions with other tirbes. Includes interactions with European-Americans. Includes present day.

PowerPoint Presentation Slide Order

Title Slide-Geography/Habitat-Interesting Customs-Economy-History-Works Cited (Please use the titles as above for each of the slides in 32 bolded font, except the Title Slide.)

Resources
Print Resources
Print resources on Native Americans, American Indians or Indigenous Peoples are located in the non-fiction section and the reference section of the library in the 900s. Use our catalog to locate books by specific Dewey number.
On-line Databases
Our library subscribes to on-line database which include encyclopedias, magazines, academic journals and other media on different topics. Grolier, Infotrac and Fact-on-file are great resources to gather information.
Websites
Here are a list of web links on this topic:
American Indian.com http://www.americanindiantribe.com/default.htm

Native American Cultures http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibits/north-south-east-west/

Tribes:
Apache Indians http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/AA/bma33.html
Apache Indians (Indians of Arizona) http://southwest.library.arizona.edu/hav7/body.1_div.1.html
Arapaho Tribe http://www.omahapubliclibrary.org/transmiss/congress/arapaho.html
Arapaho Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/arapaho_kids.htm
Blackfoot Indians http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects98/krochenskip/krochenskip.html
Blackfeet Nation http://www.manataka.org/page255.html
Cherokee Culture http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/Default.aspx
Cherokee History http://cherokeehistory.com/
Cherokee History & Culture http://www.cherokee-nc.com/index.php?page=56
Cheyenne Indian http://www.cheyenneindian.com/default.htm
Chumash Tribe http://www.santaynezchumash.org/reservation.html
Chumash Culture http://www.wishtoyo.org/projects.html
Comanche Tribe http://www.tolatsga.org/ComancheOne.html
Comanche Tribe http://www.dickshovel.com/ComancheTwo.html
Comanche Tribe http://www.dickshovel.com/ComancheThree.html
Creek Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/creek_kids.htm
Creek Tribe http://www.nanations.com/creek/index.htm
Hopi History http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07468a.htm
Hopi History http://www.ausbcomp.com/redman/hopi.htm
Huron Tribe http://www.tolatsga.org/hur.html
Huron History http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07565a.htm
Iroquois Tribe http://www.indians.org/welker/iroqnati.htm
Iroquois Tribe http://www.tolatsga.org/iro.html
Mandan Tribe http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/northamerica/mandan.html
Mandan History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/mandan/mandanhist.htm
Mohawk See Iroquois links. Mohawks were a member of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Mohawk Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/mohawk_kids.htm
Navajo Tribe http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/northamerica/navajo.html
Navajo History and Culture http://www.native-languages.org/navajo_culture.htm
Nez Perce History http://www.nezperce.org/History/MainHistory.html
Nez Perce Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/nez_kids.htm
Ojibwa Language http://www.native-languages.org/ojibwe.htm
Ojibwa Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/chippewa_kids.htm
Osage Culture http://www.osagetribe.com/
Osage Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/osage_kids.htm
Potawatomi Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/potawatomi_kids.htm
Powhatan Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/powhatan_kids.htm
Pueblo Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/pueblo_kids.htm
Pueblo Culture http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/northamerica/pueblo.html
Seminole Tribe http://www.seminoletribe.com/
Seminole Culture http://www.seminoletribe.com/culture/
Shawnee History http://www.shawnee-tribe.com/history.htm
Shawnee Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/shawnee_kids.htm
Shoshone Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/shoshone_kids.htm
Shoshone Culture http://www.native-languages.org/shoshone_culture.htm
Sioux History http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14017a.htm
Sioux History (Lakota/Teton Sioux) http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibits/north-south-east-west/lakota/index.html
Tlingit Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/tlingit_kids.htm
Tlingit Culture http://www.native-languages.org/tlingit_culture.htm
Wampanoag History http://www.tolatsga.org/wampa.html
Wampanoag Tribe http://www.bigorrin.org/wampanoag_kids.htm
Wampanoag Language http://www.native-languages.org/wampanoag.htm
Wampanoag History http://www.fourdir.com/wampanoag.htm