Betty Osceola is a Miccosukee (located in Florida) tribal elder, indigenous advocate, educator, and conservationist who actively fights for clean water, anti-fracking, sacred spaces, and Indigenous women’s rights. Osceola is an active defender of clean water and anti-pollution in the Florida Everglades. Download the handout below to color the portrait …
Print out the handout below and follow the instructions to create your own native flute! Warbling is a musical effect that can be seen in Indigenous flute music, as well as other wind instruments like the harmonica. Warbling can also be heard in animals like birds, in string instruments like …
Print out the handout below to make your own faux buffalo hide art using Indigenous motifs! Materials: Cardboard/brown paper bag, faux feathers, string/yarn, markers, scissors, and tape/glue Click here to download the PDF Click here for a full list of handouts
Download the handout below to learn more about the Chinook activist Catherine Troeh! Troeh was a historian, artist and activist who was born in 1911 and died in 2007. Click here to download the PDF Click here for a full list of handouts
Download the handout below to learn about the Kiowa Koitsenko! The top ten warriors of the honored society of Kiowa warriors was the ‘Koitsenko’ or great warriors. To distinguish themselves, the Koitsenko wore red sashes and carried sacred spears. These sashes allowed the warriors to anchor each other down during …
Download the PDF handout below to learn how to make your own calico corn with beads and a pipe cleaner! Calico corn (also called flint corn), is a type of maize with hard, colorful kernels Click here to download the PDF Click here for a full list of handouts
The story of the Sky Woman is the story of a goddess of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) – an Indigenous tribe of Canada and northern New York state. In the legend, the Sky Woman falls from an island in the sky and creates a home on the back of a turtle …
Learning Targets I can identify the original Indigenous tribes of the Great Plains. I can identify many attributes of the original Indigenous tribes of the western part of the North American continent. I can analyze the role that residential schools played in the Indigenous communities. Key Terms Tepees Elk Rocky …
