Casey Betcher--2nd Grade at Findley

Your Assignment:

 

You are creating your clan.  What information do you need to know to establish the culture of your clan?  Where will you live?  What will you wear?  Using primary sources from the Edward S. Curtis Photographic Images, you will research two different tribes living in the the Pacific Northwest.  Based on your findings, you will develop your own clan customs.  

 

A primary source is a document or a physical object (such as a photograph, tool, or clothes) that was written or created

during the time you are researching.    By examining primary sources, you are going to

have the opportunity to make your own conclusion about history.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YOUR ASSIGNMENT:

Working in groups of 4, using the computers in the technology lap, look through the:  Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images from the Library of Congress.  These are historical primary source documents.  They are photographic images captured of local Northwest Indian tribes that documented in detail some of their essential ways of life prior to westward expansion.

 

As researchers, you will be examining the images closely to consider what conclusions we can draw from the images.  Begin with the Klamath Tribe.  Then pick a second tribe from the Pacific Northwest—possibly from a different region like the coast.  If you finish early, move onto a third trip.

Please look through the images of two to three tribes from the Pacific Northwest.  Look closely at the photographs and consider:

• Where did they live?  (Describe the setting)

• What was their housing /dwellings like?

• What types of clothing do you observe (describe)?

• Are there special clothing ornamentation?

• What types of culturally relevant objects do you notice (art or ceremonial materials)?

• What activities are documented?  Examine the photos closely and describe any specific materials they are using for the activity (Hunting?  Dances?  Celebrations?  Crafts?)

• What tools and equipment do you observe them using?  (Transportation?  Hunting tools?)

• Are there any specific natural materials you notice they utilize from their region?  Hides?  Feathers?  Bark?

 

 

Record your findings in the table that your teacher printed for you.  For a PDF copy, click on the Student Data Recording Sheet below. 

Provide as much detail as you can.  We will draw on your observations to make conclusions about the different ways of life from Native American Tribes living in the Northwest.

 

 

Citations:

Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis’s ‘The North American Indian’: the Photographic Images, 2001. 

        http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html

 

The Newberry Library, Stereotypes:  Indians of the Midwest, 2011.  http://publications.newberry.org/indiansofthemidwest/indian-imagery/stereotypes/