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People of the Plains: Native Americans in Kansas

Trunk Contents

Teacher's Manual

  • 19 lesson plans
  • Recipes
  • Bibliography
  • Books & Written Materials

  • Corn is Maize
  • Quillworker: A Cheyenne Legend
  • The Pawnee
  • Buffalo
  • The Buffalo Hunt
  • Traditions
  • Kansas! Magazine, Powwow Supplement
  • Tapes

  • Iowa Tribe Powwow (video)
  • Native American music (audio)
  • Objects

  • Porcupine quills
  • Quilled medicine wheel
  • Plum seed game
  • Bone whizzer
  • Bone awl
  • Beaded rosette
  • Shield
  • Sinew
  • Pumpkin mat
  • Parfleche
  • Paint kit
  • Buffalo bladder
  • Bone scraper
  • Scapula bone
  • Pipe
  • Fur pouch
  • Moccasin
  • Drum & beater
  • Beadloom box
  • 2 Magnetic dolls
  • Buffalo Hide Puzzle Board
  • Activity Cards

  • "How to Make a Tipi"
  • Tribal Comparison
  • Character Cards
  • Object Cards
  • "Preparing a Hide"
  • Photographs & Maps

  • Map of Indian Reservations in Kansas, 1846-1900
  • Map of Indian tribes in Kansas from 1540-1854
  • Wichita Indians camp meeting
  • Hummingbird's camp, Kiowa
  • Southern Cheyenne tipis
  • Unidentified group of tipis
  • Wichita grass lodge
  • Pawnee earth lodge
  • Sac and Fox bark house
  • Summer house of Nah-Nim-Nuk-Skuk, Potawatomi
  • Travois pulled by a dog
  • Cheyenne women with a travois
  • Cheyenne woman scraping a hide
  • Single buffalo
  • Cheyenne chiefs, c. 1868
  • Little chief, Cheyenne, 1879
  • Comanche couple
  • Comanche man
  • Woman gardening by F.N. Wilson
  • Wichita grass lodge, drying rack
  • Wichita village scene
  • Women on a platform
  • "The Buffalo Hunt" by Felix Darley, Harper's, May 1, 1858
  • Buffalo surround near Russell, Kansas
  • Drying squash on spits
  • Ten-Squat-A-Way, Shawnee
  • Comanche Medicine Man
  • Kansa dog dance
  • Potawatomi Indians at a Sun Dance
  • Four buffalo robes
  • Travois pulled by dog and travois pulled by horse
  • Tipi interior
  • Ceremonial clothes
  • Types of shelter
  • Painted tipis
  • Grand Entry. Potawatomi Indian reservation, 1969
  • Three dancers. Potawatomi Indian reservation, 1969
  • Uses of the buffalo
  • People of the Plains Trunk

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