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Showing 2,434 results for Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes ...
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
The "Five Civilized Tribes"
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
village of the Mississippian culture ancestors of the Five Civilized Tribes
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Hidatsa Tribe Use of Prairie Plants
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Do your students need practice finding and utilizing information on a website? This lesson uses the Knife River Indian Villages NHS Park Stewards project on the nationally acclaimed iNaturalist website to accomplish this objective. Students will have fun exploring the site while learning how the Hidatsa and other Plains Indian tribes used the native prairie.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Three Affiliated Tribes History: Education and Spirituality
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Discussion questions and activities for the web article exploring the history of the Hidatsa Mandan Arikara Nation post-1845. Discussion centers around the resiliency of the MHA Nation and how they are reestablishing their cultural identity.
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Perspectives After the Surrender at Appomattox CH
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This program will allow students to think about the different perspectives of those who lived through the Civil War, and how various viewpoints interpreted the events surrounding the Surrender Meeting at Appomattox. This program consists of several assignments designed to help students explore these differences through the stories of three people present at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Three Affiliated Tribes (TAT) History: Post-1845 Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara and the Garrison Dam
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will learn how the Treaty at Fort Laramie established a territory for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) and how that land base was reduced through the Allotment Act of 1887. They will also gain understanding about how the Garrison Dam impacted the lives of the Three Affiliated Tribes (TAT) and forced them to relocate to what is now the Fort Berthold Reservation.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Distanced and Displaced Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This 8th grade lesson compares political maps of Native American homelands before and after westward expansion. It traces the cause factors leading to the cession of original Cheyenne and Arapaho lands prior to relocation in Oklahoma.
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Washita Battlefield Traveling Trunk
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Learn about the role that Washita Battlefield played in the Plains Indian Wars as an expanding United States came into conflict with many Plains tribes such as the Cheyenne. The traveling trunk covers both sides of the battle, containing items for both the Cheyenne and 7th US Cavalry as well as six lesson plans to cover the Battle of the Washita. Lesson plans can be adapted to fit a wider range of grade levels.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Flags and National Identity
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The records Lewis Garrard kept during his ten-month journey along the Santa Fe Trail provide an outsider's view into intercultural interactions in the 1840s. This lesson features how national identity and sovereignty have been communicated through dress, color, and symbols in early American history as well as today.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Cultural Contact Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson examines the origin of trade goods during the fur trade era and how commerce in early Colorado history served to increase settlement and westward expansion. It demonstrates how international markets have been and continue to be essential to the success of a nation’s economy.
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
William's Wheel of Fortune Lesson Plan
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This lesson plan engages the decisions made by William Bent, the manager of Bent's Fort's trading post during the fur trade era in the context of westward expansion. It examines contributing factors leading to the near extinction of bison herds decades later.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Fort Union Fur Trade Overview
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This map highlights the significance of Fort Union's location among the Upper Missouri Plains Tribes.
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Circles in the Snow
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The goals of this activity include: - Students will be able to identify a tipi ring and explain what it means; tell the story of what happened to two Cheyenne women in Black Kettle's camp during the November 27, 1868 attack; and critically analyze and discuss why the soldier chose to disobey orders.
Homestead National Historical Park
Follow the Buffalo (3rd - 5th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The American bison or “buffalo” was sacred to many Native American Tribes. The animals played an integral part in all aspects of daily life. In this lesson a Park Ranger will use real parts of the buffalo to examine the different ways Native American Tribes utilized the sacred animal.
Homestead National Historical Park
Follow the Buffalo (6th - 8th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The American bison or “buffalo” was sacred to many Native American Tribes. The animals played an integral part in all aspects of daily life. In this lesson a Park Ranger will use real parts of the buffalo to examine the different ways Native American Tribes utilized the sacred animal.
Homestead National Historical Park
Follow the Buffalo (9th - 12th)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The American bison or “buffalo” was sacred to many Native American Tribes. The animals played an integral part in all aspects of daily life. In this lesson a Park Ranger will use real parts of the buffalo to examine the different ways Native American Tribes utilized the sacred animal.
Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
The Wintu of Whiskeytown
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Image of California’s Native American tribe boundaries with the Wintu traditional lands in Northern California labeled with a pin mark.
Gateway Arch National Park
American Indians and the Great Plains (Distance Learning)
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
In this distance learning program, students will compare and contrast their lives with that of traditional Plains Indian tribes during the 1800s. They will learn how tribes such as the Dakota, Lakota, Osage, and others used nature and the lands around them to shape traditional tribal customs, and discuss how westward expansion changed their way of life.
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
Waste Not: 4th - 5th Grade
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Bison were an essential animal for many plains tribes. This lesson explores the many uses tribal people had for the bison as well as economic and cultural significance.
Glacier National Park
Stewards of the Land
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students learn about the four main tribes associated with the Glacier area. Then watch videos with tribal leaders and elders talking about their tribe’s relationship to Glacier National Park and why they feel it’s important to take care of the park. Students will reflect/discuss messages in the videos and write a contemporary story that teaches about caring for the Earth. Homework: Student Reading 1: People and Glacier National Park.
Grand Canyon National Park
Native Art and Activism of the Grand Canyon
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The area known today as the Grand Canyon has been home to people for over 13,000 years, with 11 contemporary tribes having links to the area. Many individuals in these tribes have inspired their own communities, and the country, with their traditional art. Some tribal members have bestowed historic structures around the canyon with their artwork, while others have utilized art as one of many tools towards activism and uplifting their communities.