Native Americans

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Katsina Mother Katsina Mother Katsina Mother Katsina Mother Katsina Mother
Pictures taken from the Hopi website:
(http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/hopi/index.html)
It is a Katsina mother doll.

This page has some wonderful sites about Native Americans.  Explore them with your child.

Shield with Cover American Indians and the Natural World
(shield image from this website: http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/lakota/index.html)
This site is the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's site on Native Americans.  You are able to pick an area and learn about the lives of the Native Americans that lived and live in that area.
The First Americans
picture from http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/intro.html
This website was created by third grade students, It has a lot of information about the Native Americans we've been studying.
 picture from http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/settlements/index.shtml

Native American Settlements

Click on the wigwam to learn about different shelters Native Americans used.
  About Native Americanskiddancerleft.gif (12920 bytes) Click on the Native American Dancer to go to a chart that has lots of information about Native Americans.  This chart was created by 5th Graders!

Click on the canoe to play a Native American memory game

Click on the totem pole to learn about them!