TCM10375-Primary Sources: Early American Indians

Use original documents and photographs as well as letters, maps, cartoons, and posters to help students explore the past. Primary sources provide unique insight into the lives of people in different time periods.

Each kit includes: 16 photographs and primary source documents--photo cards with background information, discussion questions, and suggested activities printed on the back; CD with photographs, other primary sources student activity sheets, and extension activities; and 80 page Teacher's Guide including lesson plans, background information, a wide variety of student activities, and a document-based assessment section to help students prepare for essays found on many standardized tests. Plus, each kit meets the NCSS standards for primary source documents and this series has received the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers EdPress.

Photographs: Algonquin village and Southeastern Indian village; Indians trade with Europeans; Wahunsonacock (Chief Powhatan) holding a tribal meeting; Plains Indians play lacrosse; Petroglyphs in Utah; Mesa Verde cliff dwellings; Totem poles; Nootka wooden dance mask.

Primary Sources: Fort and settlement of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the 1620s; The French and Algonquins attack the Iroquois in 1609; Map of the Indian Tribes on the East Coast in 1650; Document signed by chiefs of the Six Nations in receipt of ten thousand dollars in 1768; Plains Indians homes: grass houses, earth lodges, and tepees; Cree hide shirt with pictographic designs; Lakota chief from the 1700s as drawn by a French Canadian explorer; Iroquois canoes.

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