As a part of our studies on Native Americans, we have been reading through this paperback book. This inexpensive paperback is FULL of well-researched information about the indigenous people of Nebraska. I feel like I had a decent background of information from my own schooling, but I have learned a lot through our focus on this topic.
Without giving away any of her information, here is a topical list of just one item from each letter that her book includes. (The “a” page alone has ten short paragraphs on people, places or items that affected Nebraska Native Americans). The items that comprise my list are ones that either I was formerly unfamiliar with or where she definitively expanded my knowledge.
- Adze
- Buckskin (how it was made)
- Contact Period
- Dramatic Hair
- Effigy
- Fetish
- Gorgets
- Horse Creek Treaty
- Ioway
- Judicial Termination
- Killed Pottery
- “Lost the Corn”
- Massacre Canyon
- Name changes
- Oil from the bear
- Papoose (true definition and use)
- Quirt
- Rawhide (true definition and use)
- Shun-ka wakan
- Thunderbird
- Upper Republican Culture
- Vesperic Indians
- Winnebago Way
- Xenophobic
- Y (Thought provoking questions)
- Zounds
So there you have the list. To find out more, I would definitely recommend getting a hold of this book. Plus, several activities and fun reproducible worksheets are included in the back – a definite bonus!
I feel like if I got this book, I’d learn as much as my kids would! I feel like I’ve forgotten all the facts and history I learned as a kid.
The book is quite inexpensive and quite well done !