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Book of Indians

Unit outline submitted by Susan Marie
Notebooking Pages by Ami Brainerd

                

Note:  additional resource for the activities in this unit- Native American Activity Book by Edu Press

Chapter Summaries Set #1

Chapter Summaries Set #2

Notebooking Pages Chapters 1-13

Chapter One: Something About Indians
1. Label and color the following on a blank USA map.
Green - The forest country between the Mississippi River and the East Coast.
Yellow- The plains and Mountains between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains..
Purple - The desert - Arizona and New Mexico.
Blue- The sea - from Washington North along the Canadian Coast to Alaska.
2. Character: Flying-Squirrel saw something to be done she did it without being told.  Discuss and make a list using notebooking page. 

Chapter Two: People of the Forest and Lakes
1. Describe Otter-Tail's home.
2. Describe the clothes Otter-Tail wears in the winter and summer.
3. Describe what Indians of the Forests and Lakes eat.
Activity- Longhouse or Wiki-up craft on page 14 and 17

Chapter Three: Otter-Tail Goes Hunting
1. Describe the kinds of animals Otter-Tail Hunts.
Activity- tomahawk craft on page 32

Chapter Four: Flying-Squirrel Gathers Bullrushes
1. Describe how canoes are stored during winter.
2.  Describe how porcupine quills are used.
Activity- canoe craft on page 22

Chapter Five: People of the Plains
1. Describe how dogs carried the tribes belongings.
(There isn't a notebooking page for this; you can discuss it orally or use a chapter summary page, if desired.)
2. Describe Buffalo-Calf's home.
3.  Learn more about people of the plains.
Activity- tipi on page 16

Chapter Six: Buffalo-Calf and the Great Herd
1. Describe Buffalo-Calf's job as a Buffalo Scout.
Activity- knife and spoon utensils on page 37

Chapter Seven: In the Days of Rides-Away-Tinkling
1. Describe the differences in the way Buffalo-Calf' and Rides Away Tinklings' tribes killed buffalo.
2. Describe how Rides-Away-Tinkling earned her new name, Woman-No-Spirts-Can- Harm.
Activity- seed necklace on page 29

Chapter 8: People of the Deserts and Mesa
1. Explain how we know about Indians of Long-Ago. (There isn't a notebooking page for this.)
2.  Learn more about people of the desert and mesa.
Activity- pueblo craft on page 19

Chapter 9: Little Turtle of the Cliff Dwellers
1. Describe what happened to Little Turtle that made him feel clumsy as a child?
2. Describe what Little Turtle did to save his tribe.
(There is one page for Little Turtle.  Your student can choose one topic to write about on that page or possibly write about both.)
Activity-  pottery basket on page 36

Chapter 10: What Little Cornflower Found
1. Describe how Cornflower and her people helped Carlos.
2. Describe what happened when Carlos came back to Cornflower
Activity- pottery craft on page 42

Chapter 11: People of the Rivers and sea
1. Name as many sea animals (fauna) and plants (flora) as you can.
Activity- make a Hogan on page 15

Chapter 12: Raven and Whale-Tooth Hunt a Whale
1. Research whales.
2. Explain what happened to Raven that everyone said was lucky. (There isn't a notebooking page for this topic.)
Activity- make a totem on page 20

Chapter 13: Cedar Bough's Bargain
1. Describe how Cedar-Bough won her freedom.
(There isn't a notebooking page for this; you can discuss it orally or use a chapter summary page, if desired.)
2. Explain the arrangement between Raven and Whale-Tooth.
(There isn't a notebooking page for this; you can discuss it orally or use a chapter summary page, if desired.)
3.  Record information about each of the characters (Raven, Cedar-Bough, and Whale-Tooth) on the character page. 
Activity- make ceremonial bands on pages 30-31

Review Activities
1. Find a picture of a buffalo. Make a poster of the various uses for buffalo.  Draw and label the following:
Tee-pee - Buffalo skin
Bones - Tools and weapons
Horns - bows
Insides - Food, thread
Poop - Fire starters
Hoofs - Glue

2. Make and play the Indian games on pages 44-45 in the Native American Activity Book.

3. Make six character disks (a paper circle about the size of the top of a large Mayo. Jar) .Draw and label the following character disks and place them on a poster board around a USA map with lines drawn to the places the characters lived.

Otter-Tail and Flying- Squirrel Indians of the Forests and Lakes who live near Lake Superior in Wisconsin.
Buffalo -Calf, an Indian of the Plains who lives in Minnesota.
Rides-Away-Tinkling, an Indian of the Plains who lives in Missouri.
Little Turtle, an Indian of the Desert who lives in Arizona.
Cornflower, an Indian of the Desert who lives in New Mexico.
Whale-Tooth, Cedar Bough and Raven, Indians of the Sea who live near Vancouver in Canada.