 American Indian Games
| | Play games from the American Indian kit that involve objects from nature. Included are Materials and instructions for a dice game, stick game, and
Hetu, information about the role games played in the American Indian way of life, and a lesson plan idea for grade 5.
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An Introduction to the Lakota Language
| | Students will watch a DVD with lakota words, proper pronunciation, and translation. A notebook and flash cards are also provided. This kit centers around an exhibit in the Sioux Indain Museum located in the Journey Museum.
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Arrows - Wahin Kpe
| | Step by step video and picture instructions. Kit contains items for safe, suitable arrow making (no bow included) and information on the History, assembly, and flight of the arrow.
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Bows and Arrows
| | This kit provides steps to making an arrow and research paper that discusses the materials many Plains Indians used when creating arrows for battle and hunting. Sharp objects are included in this kit.
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Buffalo Box
| | This authentic buffalo box is used to store tipi accessories. The box has the bison hair intact and has buckskin thong ties. Our buffalo box contains buffalo soap, bone paint brush, bone awl, stomach, hoof sheaths, shoulder blade, bladder pouch, bladder, foot bone, dew claw, milk teeth, tail, bull horn cap, rawhide, leg bone flesher, and deer sinew. For special tour presentations in the museum or for a presentation in the classroom.
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Early Lakota Painting
| | This kit provides materials and instructions on how to recreate a Lakota story, and a research paper which examines the purposes of paint in the Lakota society. The concept of painting is discussed in the areas of meaning, color, tools, and symbols. A Brainstorming activity for grade 9 is included.
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Excursion into Lakota Culture
| | This program immerses a group or classroom in Lakota culture and history through the use of videos, vocabulary, reading, art, writing, and geography. This kit contains a teacher guide with copy masters, 20 “The South Dakota Story” text books, example of a parfleche, pattern for a buffalo hide winter count, “Song of the Ghost Dance” sheet music, “Canyon Trilogy” flute music CD, “The American Indian’s Sacred Ground” DVD, and SD Adventures and SD Public Television Network DVD.
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Fur Frenzy
| | This activity will challenge your knowledge of the use of animal fur in a fun matching game with real fur. Instructions, clues, photos, answer key and a research paper complete this kit.
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Get Up and Move - Do the Round Dance
| | "This kit provides a carpet with footprints, an instruction DVD with music and information about the Native American powwow, its history , the regalia worn during the celebrations, the music performed and a few of the different types of dances with an emphasis on the Native American Round Dance (also referred to as the Friendship Dance). An "Events of the Powwow" brainstorming activity for grade 4 is also included.
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Lakota Music
| | Children experience the museum by making ankle rattles, playing them, and playing a drum to the beat of traditonal, and non-traditional songs. Materials, directions, and information on the history of Lakota music is included.
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Lakota Winter Counts
| | This kit contains instructions and materials for constructing the Lone Dog Winter Count (1801-1868). A research paper on winter counts and lesson plan on the importance of the winter count to the Lakota People ( grade 8) completes this activity.
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Native American Beadwork
| | This kit provides materials, instructions and patterns on how to bead.
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The Circle of Life - Beginning Tipi Building
| | Materials to build a miniture tipi; notebook providing background on the tipi and step by step directions with photos; notebook with tipi research paper and a grade 4 lesson plan example.
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Winter Counts
| | This activity explores the methods used by the Lakota to remember the past. Three binders contain three different stories and each binder conincides with a bag with symbols. Instructions, hides for the wintercount, and a paper on the History of the Lakota Winter Count complete this kit.
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Wolakota Game (Wol lah koh tah) "All that makes us the Lakota people"
| | This is a board game designed for fun learning about pioneer life and Native American storytelling and literature. It compliments the lessons from “Excursion Into Lakota Culture” or after a classroom unit on Lakota and Pioneer history. The Wolakota game board illustrates the original winter count created by Lone Dog covering the years 1800-1871.
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