This power point informs young students (grade 3, ages 8 and 9) about some of the Native American tribes and traditions. It also gives students ideas of videos and books that incorporate Native Americans.

1. Native Americans
Grade 3 age 9
Chelsea Bianco

2. Native Americans
 Native Americans migrated to the Americas and
formed hundreds of tribes.
 Each tribe has their own language and traditions.

3. Native
Americans
Native Americans had many
different cultures throughout
history.
Their living environments
depended on what the
weather was like outside.
2 million Native Americans
still live in the United States
today.

4. Native Americans & Sports
 Native Americans invented the sport of lacrosse.
 Native Americans often do not like sports because
the name of the team or the mascot is racist. For
example the name of the team: “Redskins” and
“Indians.”
 Many sports teams mimick Native American
religious rituals.

5. Native American Tribes
 Algonquins
 Atakapas
 Alabamas
 Blackfoot
 Catawbas
 Cherokees
 Comanches
 Dakotas
 Iroquois
 Lumbees
 Menominees
 Mohawks

6. Native American
Indian Facts and
Histories
If you want to learn more
about the histories of different
tribes, click the link below!
http://www.kidinfo.com/americ
an_history/native_americans.
html

7. The Legend of the Indian
Painbrush by Tomie dePaola
This is a great book to read to youngsters about different beliefs within a
tribe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyaifWkUWr0

8. Cherokee Native
Americans
 Made up of 7 different clans.
 Women in charge of home and land.
 Men in charge of hunting and protecting.
 Tribes famous leader: Sequoyah

9. Famous
Native
Americans
Squanto
Pocahontas
Black Hawk
Sacajawea
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
Jim Thorpe

10. Pocahontas
Pocahontas is a great Disney movie that ties in real facts about
interactions between Native Americans and English
soldiers.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114148/

11. The End!