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Grade Level: Grade 8 Curriculum
(reading level grades 5-9)
Subject Area: World Studies, English, Computer literacy,
Technology/Science, and Art.
Unit: Native Americans (November is Native American Month)
Chapter 11 in our text "Creating a New Nation - Beginnings Through
Reconstruction."
Task
#1: Select a tribe from those listed below. Note that area of North
America that was their traditional homeland (in parenthesis). This will be
the tribe you research and use to complete your other tasks.
Important
Mega-Resources:
North's
Destiny Digital Catalog of Print and Internet Resources
500 Nations
"Native American
SuperSite! LOCAL INFORMATION for Indian casinos, powwows, places to visit,
and tribes in every state and province in the United States and
Canada
Indian Genealogy at
"Researching
your Indian Genealogy is no different then researching your other
ancestry. Start with your self and work you way back, no short cuts!"
Indians.org
- Be careful - supported by lots of advertising. "The American
Indian Heritage Foundation was establised to provide relief services to
Indian people nationwide and to build bridges of understanding and
friendship between Indian and non-Indian people."
National Museum of the Native
American from the Smithsonian Institution
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