American Indians Class

An interactive journey back in time, our AMERICAN INDIANS course exposes students to the American Indian culture by hands-on learning and examination through the eyes of the early explorers. During the class, students will:

• "Join" Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle as the first European explorers to enter East Texas.
• "Meet" woodland and plains Indians and learn how they lived before the influence of European culture.
• Compare and contrast the structure of a tipi and a wigwam.
• Taste samples of foods eaten by many American Indian tribes.
• Learn to hunt with a bow and arrow.
• Hold tools crafted with bone, stone, and sinew.
• Make a bead bracelet and learn how paints were developed and used.
• Experience a Pow Wow and receive an individual tribal name.
• Observe a native winter count and learn how to create their own.