November is National American Indian Heritage Month. I am going to help my son make an American Indian book as he works his way through this fifth-grade unit. I will use a three-ring binder, and each Indian tribe will be a separate chapter. I am going to use some of the pages for his book from Easy File Folder Reports
(Evan-Moor Publishing).
For each group of Indians, my son will research and note their language, religion, diet, dwelling, clothing, transportation, and areas they lived. He will also list the sources for his information.
Below are the Indians and Indian-related facts that my son will be learning about (due to time limitations, we won’t cover every Indian tribe in the US):
- Indians of the Southwest
- Acoma
- Apache
- Hopi
- Navajo
- Zuni
- Indians of the Southeast
- Cherokee
- Chickasaw
- Choctaw
- Creek
- Natchez
- Seminole
- Indians of the Northeast
- Cayuga
- Chippewa
- Lenape (Delaware)
- Kickapoo
- Micmac
- Mohawk
- Oneida
- Seneca
- Wampanoag
- Winnebago
- Indians of the Pacific Northwest
- Indians of the Plains
- Arapaho
- Blackfoot
- Cheyenne
- Comanche
- Crow
- Kiowa
- Mandan
- Omaha
- Pawnee
- Indians of the Great Basin and the Plateau
- Nez Perce (Plateau)
- Ute (Great Basin)
I will be using the book What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know
(edited by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. / Delta Education), which has the following topics (additional information is available at the listed Web sites):
- Natives and Settlers
- Indians of the Southwest
- Indians of the Pacific Northwest
- Indians of the Great Basin and the Plateau
- Indians of the Plains
- The Buffalo Disappear
- Reservations
- The Sand Creek Massacre
- Little Big Horn
- “I Will fight no more forever.”
- The Ghost Dance
- Attempts to Assimilate the Indians
- Splitting Up Reservations
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17 November 2008, 4:46 pm
This is cute also! You have come up with some great ideas for projects. You seem like a good teacher for your son.