More Than Moccasins: A Kid's Activity Guide to Traditional North American Indian Life
speak to you as early artists did and feel free to change each project to use what you have on hand This book is filled with ideas for fun and interest ing things to make that will help you learn about what life was like for Indian children long ago It will give you a chance to live with history enjoying it while you create The projects are designed to make history exciting to explore using everyday things you find around your home Store your supplies in a large box and add to it whenever you find something with possibilities Some items to collect Beaded jewelry Old wigs and hairpieces Swish in warm water and dish soap dry on a bath towel and comb gently Leather clothing Old fur collars cuffs and hats Leather bootlaces Sticks Gather or save popsicle sticks Dowels Paint and coffee stirrers Feathers Feather dusters are a source or you can gather them in your yard wash in warm water shape them and dry Aluminum pie pans Recycle them when you are finished Round pizza cardboards Small stones Shells
Chamois Try an auto supply store Vinyl pieces Yarn scraps Buttons Bells Colored felt Ribbons and sewing trims Brown paper bags Paper towel and bathroom tissue tubes Thread spools Small pieces of bone Save from dinner soak in vinegar and scrub with a toothbrush The projects in this book will help you understand the people who made the items and how they lived Some items can be found in museums and some are still being made by Native Americans today Feel free to do as the Indian artist did add or change the designs to better use the materials you have or to show your own creativity Indians were always eager to find new materials and ideas choosing and using what they felt to be more elegant unique or useful Let your own projects reflect that same spirit There are about 500 tribes in North America today A tribe is a group of relatives who speak the same language and have the same leader or chief A chief can be a man or
There are about 2 million American Indians Eskimos and Aleuts in the United States Today 800 000 Indians live on or near reservations 1 200 000 live in cities and suburbs Arctic Subarctic Northwest Coast Woodland Northeast Californial Plains Southeast Southwest NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURE MAP This map shows where the people had similar lifestyles The people that lived in each area had food clothes art and languages similar to their
HOW TO SAY IT The names of many tribes are hard to pronounce This may help you with the unusual ones ALEUTS Al ee oots ALGONQUIAN Algone key un ANASAZI Ann uh saw zee APACHE Uh patch ee ARAPAHO Uh rap uh hoe ARIKARA Uh ree kuh ruh BANNOCK Ban ek BELLA COOLA Bella Cool uh CHEROKEE Chair oh kee CHEYENNE Shy ann CHIPPEWA Chip uh wah CHIRICAHUA APACHE Cheer uh caw wah Uh patch ee CHOCTAW Chock taw COOPAS Ko ko paw COEUR D ALENE Core duh lane DAKOTA Duh koh tah HAIDA Hi duh HAVASUPAI Have uh soup eye HIDATSA Hi dot suh HOHOKAM Ho ho kahm HOP Hope ee HUPA Hoo paw HURON Hyo ron IROQUOIS Ear oh kwo KIOWA Ki oh wah KUTENAI Koo ten ay MIWOK Mee wuk MOHAVE Mo hah vee MOHEGAN Mo hee gun NAVAJO Na va hoe NEZ PERCE Nezz Purse OJIBWA Oh jib wah OMAHA Oh muh hah ONEIDA On ni dah ONONDAGAOh nen dog uh PAIUTE Pie yute PAPAGO Paw paw go PAWNEE Pawnee PIEGAN Pie ee gun PIMA Pee mah POMO Poh moh SHOSHONE Show show nee SIOUX Sue or Soo TETON Tee tawn TLINGET Tling get TSIMSYAN Sim shin UMATILLA You mah tilla UTE Yoot YAKIMA Yack uh maw YOKUT Yo cut YUMA You mah YUROK Your rock ZUNI Zoo nee
