Lewis and Clark Tribal Project Flags

LEWIS AND CLARK TRIBAL PROJECT – FLAGS

SHOSHONE FLAG FORT WASHAKIE WYOMING Source for Shoshone flag usage: http://county10.com/2015/10/26/tomorrow-eastern-shoshone-business-council-special-election/

What images are on the Shoshone flag? Why do you think those images were chosen? Why do you think the buffalo is in the center? What other tribes have animals on their flags?

“Tribal Flags: The Lewis and Clark Expedition crossed the lands of many American Indian tribes. Shown below are 65 flags representing those tribes. Click here to see the list. Click on a flag to see an enlargement and the tribe’s name and location today. Descriptions and the history of each flag is provided, if available.” Check out the Tribal Legacy Project’s Tribal Flags pages. http://cms.lc-triballegacy.org/Tribal%20Flags

HOW TO HONOR…A PERSON, AN IDEA, A CULTURE

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This quilt was presented to Bob and Irene Root in honor of their son, Dr. Barry R. Root, who was a dentist at the Hot Springs VA Hospital in Hot Springs, SD.

* Why do you think the Oglala Sioux Tribe presented this quilt and the Oglala Sioux flag at Dr. Root’s funeral? * What quilt could you design and/or make to honor a person, an idea, or a culture? * What other items could you design and/or make? Why? * How could jewelry be used to honor? Why? * How many different items can you design and for whom? * How many narrative, expository, or persuasive writings can you produce to go with what you created?

PLAINS INDIANS – TIPIS

Plains Indians -- Tipis Reading Level 2nd – 6th “A story and reading comprehension activity about the Plains Indians and the type of home they”... https://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/0876287887_39.pdf

SHELTER IN ART…and ART IN SHELTER

* Where can you find evidence of shelters in art? * Where can you find evidence of art in shelters? * What art can you make for shelter/s? * What shelters can you make for art/s? * What message/s do you think the earrings or necklace can give? * Why do you think someone would create these? * What evidence of lines of symmetry can you find? * Are any of the designs congruent? * If you were going to design a display for a museum or a kiosk in a public place about shelter, what messages would you want to explain. * How would you explain the messages?

WOLF DOG

How could you illustrate a story about Wolf Dog of the Vore Buffalo Jump? What details would you include in Wolf Dog’s story? Would your story be nonfiction or fiction? Would you organize the text in paragraphs or would organize words in lines and stanzas to make a poem?

View Jan Brett’s book, First Dog, or listen to Mary Hall read the book to you in this 10 minute video. Notice how she illustrated each page around the boards in addition to the story pages. https://vimeo.com/71522911

Here is Jan Brett’s blurb about her book. What blurb could you write about your story about Wolf Dog of the Vore Buffalo Jump? http://janbrett.com/bookstores/first_dog_book.htm

“Between 35,000 and 12,000 years ago, as the last of the great glaciers of the Pleistocene advanced and retreated over the grasslands of Europe and the New World, people like ourselves--Homo sapiens sapiens--began to flourish. Hunters and gatherers, they wore clothes made of animal skins, had shell and bone ornaments and used such tools as spears and knives. They made music and were prolific artist. This was a time of exceptional artistic achievement and technological advance, and it may have been during this period that the first wild animals were domesticated. Jan Brett has created an appealing story from this possibility, setting it in a breathtaking Ice Age landscape populated with animals that coexisted with early man in Europe and the New World. The images and ornaments of her borders were inspired by the cave paintings and artifacts surviving from this time.”

WOLF DOG HAND SIGNAL

Consider using a Wolf Dog hand signal as a way for everyone to focus when it is time to listen. Here’s how to make a wolf dog with your hands. Touch your two middle fingers to your thumb for the snout of your Wolf Dog. Use your index and little fingers for ears. Make the ears turn to listen for sounds.

VBJ FACT GAME – RIDDLE STRIPS TO PLAY OR MAKE A SET TO TAKE HOME

• What animals were funneled into the sinkhole? (bison/buffalo) • What evidence do we have about the type of animals that are in the sinkhole? (bones) • When was the sinkhole used? (850 – 1750) • How do we know the years that the sinkhole was used? (Layers called varves are matched with data from tree rings.) • Name tribes/nations who have used the buffalo jump. (Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Absaroka/Shoshone, Mandan/Hidatsa, Lakota) • Why were animals funneled into the sinkhole? (People needed food, tools, clothes, and homes.) • What is the name of this site and where is it located? (Vore Buffalo Jump between Sundance and Beulah, Wyoming I-90 Exit 205 West and Exit 199 East)

Options for VBJ Game – Riddle Strips

1. Laminate or cover with clear contact paper teacher made strips of paper with questions about the Vore Buffalo Jump on one side with the answers on the back. Make 6 sets for 12 people to play as partners. Always have blank strips available for students to make up their own questions and answers. Students may take home the Riddle Strips they made.

2. Or make 12 different colored sets with each set in a sealing bag appropriate for the size of strips or cards. Store all 12 smaller bags in a gallon sealing bag to have on hand anytime for a class of 24!

DID YOU KNOW? FOLDING SQUARE make one to take home

Use the blank folding square to add details about the Vore Buffalo Jump. Play this fact game with your classmates and family.

Go here for a free blank folding square: 8 questions are needed.

https://vintagetoysblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/paper-fortune-teller-free-printable-template / Directions for folding are included. A preprinted game focused on physical activity and friendship is provided.

One could be created specifically oriented to facts and decorations appropriate for the Vore Buffalo Jump:

• any 4 words: bison, skull, bones, varves, food, artifacts, research, pishkus, etc. could be switched out for the words yellow, red, blue, green at the corners • Native American designs could replace flowers, etc.

MAKE MASKS FOR YOU OR A HORSE

Read free downloadable, printable 15 page Smartboard Ready Little Brave: A Traditional Sioux Folktale adapted by Emily Kavicky, Harcourt Brace School Publishers

Design a mask for the Sioux tribe, any other tribe, or the Vore Buffalo Jump. Page 15 has 5 Think Critically questions. https://www-6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/reading/storytown/na/gr4/readers_9780153598609_/9780153509803.pdf

American Indian Horse Masks by Mike Cowdrey and Ned and Jody Martin http://www.amazon.com/American-Indian-Horse-Masks-Martin/dp/0965994759/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&qid=1443581545&sr=8-1&keywords=american+indian+horse+masks

Check it out or interlibrary loan it from your public library. Or check out B. J. Bison’s Classroom Trunks from the Vore Buffalo Jump. This book is included as well as many others for your class to explore.

Read Smartboard Ready article about how the Wyoming State Museum had a horse mask restored. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700202921/Rare-American-Indian-horse-mask- faces-restoration.html See it fully restored in this Smartboard Ready article: http://horsetalk.co.nz/2012/11/18/lakota- horse-mask-back-museum-display/#axzz3nBow4xxi and at the Wyoming State Museum webpage: Enjoy exploring their online photos of artifacts http://wyomuseum.state.wy.us/Collections/Index.aspx or in person!

Go see the horse mask at the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne!

B. J. Bison Design Suggestions for a Horse Mask:

• Use 36 inch wide bulletin board paper in an assortment of colors. Tear off in sections every 36 inches to have 36 x 36 inch square sections of paper to use.

• Or use faux leather or fur, muslin, canvas, cotton. Add buttons, ribbons, feathers (duck, goose, pheasant, chicken.) Or use dyed corn husks like the horse mask at the Wyoming State Museum (p. 44)

• Consider using graph paper (1/4 inch) to color in beadwork. Mod Podge your finished designs and glue to your paper or fabric.

• Instead of gluing try using large blanket stitches to sew on your dry Mod Podge graph paper beadwork with crochet thread. See tutorial on how to do a blanket stitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7QKTd1zLY

• See these pages in American Indian Horse Masks:

.known types of horse masks p. 99 . folded side views for pattern ideas pp. 8, 10, 31, 32, 35,47, 48, 49,52, 86 . unfolded/open view for pattern ideas pp. 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, 34, 77 . photos of the horse mask at the Wyoming State Museum pp. 44 & 45.

GRAPH PAPER BEADWORK

Use colored pencils to color in your bead design on graph paper. Color each square by coloring lines along each side of the square until the square is filled to give a bead look. Consider using:

• 2 colors per square such as coloring red lines along the inside of each line to leave a place for a yellow dot in the center • a variety of sizes and color of graph paper

B. J. Bison Suggestions: Try buff or tan colored graph paper to give the illusion of buckskin. Consider posting your design on the Vore Buffalo Jump facebook page for others to enjoy. HOW TO READ AN OBJECT

Consider using this form provided by the National Park Service and Teaching Museum Collections Management Program to Read any object at the Vore Buffalo Jump: *properties of object *function/purpose *physical features *materials *construction/technique of manufacture *design and decoration *context and history *value http://www.nps.gov/museum/tmc/docs/How_to_Read_an_Object.pdf

How are you going to share how you read the object you selected? Consider posting on Vore Buffalo Jump Facebook page. HOW TO READ A PHOTO

Consider using this form provided by the National Park Service and Teaching Museum Collections Management Program to Read any photo about the Vore Buffalo Jump *What do you see? *Divide the image into quarters. *Describe what you see? People, time, activities, objects, animals, plants, place, title, etc. *What can you say about the photo using questions and inferences? http://www.nps.gov/museum/tmc/docs/How_to_Read_a_Photo.pdf

How are you going to share how you read a photo from the Vore Buffalo Jump? Consider posting on the Vore Buffalo Jump page.

HOW TO TEACH WITH OBJECTS FROM THE VORE BUFFALO JUMP

Consider using the National Park Service’s templates for how to teach using museum collections. YOU are the teacher. What objects would you select? What lessons can you develop? Try them out on your class, other classes, other schools and organizations in your community and elsewhere. How about posting your lesson on the Vore Buffalo Jump Facebook page? http://www.nps.gov/museum/tmc/docs/TMCtemplate.html

I - HAVE - WHO – HAS TEMPATE: MAKE ANY LESSON INTO A GAME

Have your teacher download it here for FREE and thank Kile’s Classroom, please. www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/I-Have-Who-Has-Template-Make-any-lesson-into-a- game-1593784?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Image+- +I+Have+Who+Has+Template-+Make+any+lesson+into+a+game!! &utm_content=https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/I-Have-Who-Has-Template- Make-any-lesson-into-a-game-1593784&utm_campaign=Newsletter+275+Grade-PreK- 5&_bta_tid=3.AIf5.CmFexw.Ez4r.Aix7UA..Ayqedg.s..s.AgKc.n...4KnVmg&_bta_c=8ul8pmazc7 86neowwb2bapnu73n8i WRITE AND DRAW BUFFALO JOKES FOR END OF SESSIONS Q: What did mama buffalo say when her youngest went off to college? A: "Bison!" Q: How can you tell if a buffalo is under your sleeping bag? A: The ceiling of your tent is very close. Q: What do you find between the hooves of buffaloes? A: Slow buffalo hunters. Q: What do you get when you cross peanut butter with a buffalo? A: You either get peanut butter that roams the range or a buffalo that sticks to the roof of your mouth. Q: How can you tell a buffalo from a field mouse? A: Try to pick it up. If you can't, it's either a buffalo or a very overweight mouse. Q: What time is it when a buffalo sits in your canoe? A: Time to get a new canoe. Q, How do you make sense out of a bison buffalo? A: With buffalo nickels. Q: What has 2 tails, 3 horns and 6 feet? A: A buffalo with spare parts! Q: Why did the buffalo cross the road? A: To prove to the possum that it could be done! Q: What do you call a buffalo at the North Pole? A: Lost! Q: What's brown but turns red? A: An embarrassed buffalo! Q: What the difference between a Buffalo and Bison? A: You can't wash your hands in a buffalo! Q: What is as big as a buffalo but weighs nothing? A: Its shadow! Q: What do you call a single buffalo? A: A buffalonely Q: What is the Native Americans name for buffalo that can fly? A: Buffalo Wild Wings Q: What do you call a buffalo in a phone booth? A: Stuck! Q: What happens when 2 single buffalo meet up, fall in love and run away to get married? A: They buffalope. Q: What time is it when a buffalo sits on your bed? A: Time to get a new bed! Q: How do you know when there is a buffalo under your bed? A: When your nose touches the ceiling!

Q: What do you call a buffalo with a carrot in each ear? A: Anything you want as he can't hear you! Q: What kind of milk comes from a forgetful buffalo? A: Milk of Amnesia Q: What do you call a buffalo that doesn't give milk? A: A MILK DUD! Q: How do you make a milkshake? A: Give a buffalo a pogo stick. http://www.jokes4us.com/animaljokes/buffalojokes.html

FOLDING VBJ CARD

What card can you create with the letters V….B….J? Here’s a folding one if you’d like to use it. Click on outline VBJ card, enlarge, print as one full 8 x 10 or multiple copies per page.