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1-Our First Families [ABCDE] Volume 3, Issue 1 Our First Families INSIDE Toward Timeline: 5 Nacotchtank 8 1400-1600 First Draft Mamonotowick, of History Werowances and 10 11 the People September 23, 2003 © 2002 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY Volume 3, Issue 1 KLMNO An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program Our First Families In the Know KidsPost Article: “The Unboring Illustrated True Story of the On the Web Washington Area from 1600 to Right Now, Part 1” ➤ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/education/kidspost/nie/A99958- Lesson: An introduction to the first First, it is a chance to study how 1995Jun14.html Americans who settled along the researchers unearth the buried past “Life in America 400 Years Ago: When Potomac River and how they use fragments to Algonquian Culture Ruled Our Region” Level: All piece together the larger picture. Stephen Hyslop in this Post Horizon There’s a speculative element article provides a good introduction to Subjects: History, social studies of course. An archeologist or an Native Americans who lived in this area. anthropologist says we know X Related Activity: Language arts, art ➤ and we know Y. Put together they Rountree, Helen C. The Powhatan About This Series: This is the first suggest—but do not prove—Z. Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional of nine illustrated segments about Culture. University of Oklahoma Press, the history of the Washington Second, it is opportunity to 1989. area. Each installment will treat view drawings and read accounts An anthropologist at Old Dominion a different period—European of individuals who were the first University in Norfolk, Roundtree settlement, the creation of the Europeans to come to this area. provides readable information using nation’s capital, the Civil War era, We can discuss the extent of their the accounts of John Smith and other the turn of the century, up to the objectivity and the influence their English colonists. present. The series is meant to culture had on their observations of ➤ Rountree, Helen and Thomas E. be a provocative starting point an unfamiliar one. Davidson. Eastern Shore Indians of for young people rather than a Third, it is a lesson in intellectual Virginia and Maryland. University of definitive history. Its aim is to discipline (and humility) that is Virginia, 1997. provide context to where we live, truly valuable. On some subjects, A closer look at the Native Americans to convey the idea that life here in some fields, we just have to who lived east of the Chesapeake and evolved in rich and exciting ways accept that we can only know so their relations to the land and each other. that transcend the conventional much. Of course, we try to fill in portrayal of Washington as only the blanks. But we do not fill in ➤ Potter, Stephen. Commoners, a seat of government. Students the blanks with fiction or idealized Tribute and Chiefs: The Development in each of the three jurisdictions- images, as has happened so often, of Algonquian Culture in the Potomac Maryland, Virginia and the District- particularly with early studies of Valley. University of Virginia Press, 1993. will find something meaningful in Native American culture. Returning Dr. Potter, an archeologist based at it. to the equation above: If “Z” is the National Park Service headquarters in D.C., combines archeology, anthropology September: First Families: The best we can do for the moment, we and ethno-history for a scholarly study of Journey Begins will take it, recognizing it for what it is, a deduction. the rise of the Chicacoans. Our knowledge of the Native ➤ Egloff, Keith and Deborah Woodward. Americans who lived in the Read and Discuss First People, the Early Indians of Washington area is fragmentary, Give students “Q and A,” a Virginia. Virginia Department of especially compared with the reproducible that provides basic Natural Resources, 1993. voluminous record of the years information about the people that followed their disappearance. who lived in this area. For a more The Virginia archives of Indian artifacts A complete picture, even a semi- comprehensive article, download provided the extensive collection upon complete picture, is unattainable. “Life in America 400 Years Ago: which state historians reconstructed When Algonquian Culture Ruled what aboriginal life might have been like But this is a learning opportunity Our Region.” What do students from 9500 B.C. to the 1800s. Includes for young people in several understand about people living in descriptions of Virginia’s eight surviving respects. our region 400 years ago? tribes. 2 September 23, 2003 © 2003 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY Volume 3, Issue 1 KLMNO An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program Our First Families (continued) In the Field KidsPost Article: “The Unboring Illustrated True Story of the ➤ http://www.historyisfun.org/ Washington Area from 1600 to Right Now, Part 1” Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Check out Geography Young Girl” with De Bry’s. Give Victory Center A map of D.C. in the early 1600s students “First Draft of History” Select “Jamestown Settlement” for is provided. Give students “Map to study “Indian Woman and information about the Powhatan Indian It.” Note the topographic features: Baby of Poemiooc,” view a virtual Village at the Jamestown Settlement hills and low lands, creeks and village and compare and contrast in Virginia. Historical interpreters rivers, inlets and islands. images. To answer question four, demonstrate preparing food, processing Create a Timeline give students copies of “Toward animal hides and weaving natural fibers “Timeline: 1400-1600” is divided Nacotchtank.” into cordage. into two main sections—the Read Art ➤ www.nmai.si.edu/ North American experience and Provide students copies of National Museum of the American Indian that of the rest of the world. A “Growing Up in the Potomac (NMAI) few significant examples from Valley.” In this handout, students Get visitor information for the Cultural history and discovery, inventions learn about the life of younger Resources Center in Suitland, Md., and and technology, arts and literature members of the Powhatan and plans for the NMAI to open on Sept. 21, are indicated. You might have Piscataway chiefdoms. Information 2004, on The Mall. Visit the “Education” students add examples from their for this reproducible, came section for teaching materials. If in New current study. For example, if from Rountree’s works and the York City, view the George Gustav Heye Africa is being studied in class, add commentary of Paul Hulton and examples from there. David Beers Quinn (American Center exhibits. Examine the First Draft of History Drawings of John White, 1577- ➤ The Piscataway Indian Museum in The story of Native Americans 1590) found on the Jamestown White Plains, Md. has often been filtered through site. Compare and contrast your Open Sundays, 1-4 p.m. clouded lenses with both favorable students’ way of life with that of Maryland Indian Cultural Center and unfavorable consequences for those living in the 1500s. 16816 Country Lane them. Through this activity, the Give students “Toward Waldorf, MD 20601 accuracy of detailing a way of life Nacotchtank.” What aspects of 301-372-1932 and the romanticization of Native growing up are illustrated in this ➤ http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/eam/ Americans can be illustrated. artwork? Where are these found in index.htm Watercolorist John White actually the image? Have students “read” The Earliest Americans saw his subjects and left us a the Patterson work more carefully. series of eyewitness portrayals of Using the key to the illustration The National Park Service Archeology the Powhatan Native American found on page 13, guide students and Ethnography program provides basic Culture. Then Theodor De Bry on a close reading. information on their study of nominated archeological sites to preserve the legacy used White’s watercolors to make Learn about Law and Order engravings about the same culture. of the earliest Americans. On the Record Based on eyewitness To see the neo-classical sheen he section in “The Southeast” provides a observations, contemporary put on these images, begin with the map of archeology sites that PaleoIndians accounts (Pocahontas and others) first in a series of pairs of White and archeological evidence, inhabited. and De Bry illustrations (http://je scholars have attempted to ➤ http://www.cr.nps.gov/ fferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/ understand the power structure archeology.htm jamestown/images/white_debry_ and maintenance of order within and compare Links to the Past: Archeology html/plate32.html) and between the chiefdoms. Have White’s “Indian Woman and Discoveries of the National Park Service students read “Mamonotowick, archeologists and their partners. 3 September 23, 2003 © 2003 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY Volume 3, Issue 1 KLMNO An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program Our First Families (continued) KidsPost Article: “The Unboring Illustrated True Story of the Washington Area from 1600 to Right Now, Part 1” Werowances and the People.” Discuss the early concepts of law and order. Do a Crossword Puzzle The crossword puzzle is built upon terms associated with the way of life of the Algonquian culture - the Conoy chiefdom of southern Maryland and the Powhatan chiefdom of eastern Virginia. Enrichment For an introduction to bartering and more Native American resources, visit www.washpost.com/nie. Select Lesson Plans. Click on “A World of Money,” the first of the Post NIE online guides. Key (from page 5) Crossword Answers 1. Stickball, anyone? 1 2 3 1 4 5 6 7 8 1 9 10 11 2. Body paint. F I S H M E L O N S R O D 12 1 13 1 14 1 15 3. Tattoo. O R E C O R N E A O Y E 4. Acorns, boiled for food and medicine.
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