Cheyenne Middle School

Edmond Public Schools

Group 9: Food & Tools

As the Cheyenne moved south and west of the Missouri River, they became increasingly dependent on the buffalo for their food.  But they also ate other plants and as they began to trade with the Americans, they added to the foods they enjoyed.  Preparing food involved using special utensils and tools that they made themselves. 

TASK:  Your task is to gather information about the food of the Cheyenne and the tools and utensils used for preparing it.   From the information you gather from your book,  you will create a presentation with the following slides.  Use the same titles as are listed on the slides.

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  Food, Tools, Games

Names of Group Members

Tools

 

What tools and utensils were created from the buffalo?

(include picture)

 

Dream Shields

Explain what dream shields are and what inspired their designs

(include picture)

 

Grandmother's Power Tools

Describe what they are and how they were used.

 

(include picture)

 

Pemmican

What is pemmican and how was it used?

 

(include picture)

 Slide 1

 Slide 2

 Slide 3

 Slide 4

 Slide 5

 Works Cited

List all the sources (books and websites) used for your research
See Bibliography Guide

        

 Slide 6

        

Resources: 

 

The Cheyenne by Raymond Bial, pages 54 - 57

Gather your facts from this book.   Decide what the most important facts are, and write them on your storyboard.  Use the Glossary to look up any unfamiliar words.  Your classroom teacher must approve your storyboard before you proceed to the next step. Once you have your  text written in your storyboard, you can find your pictures from below:

American Memory Photo Collection   Type your term in the search box (If you use Cheyenne Indians as your terms you will get lots of picture and you can scroll through.  Or you can type a specific term in (like "travois") and see what you get.  Go to Gallery View, then keep clicking on the picture until you get the largest view.  Then you can save it to your home directory.

Cheyenne Visions II :  Use this website for information and pictures about Dream Shields, and Grandmother's Power Tools  (Hint:  scroll through the images of Cheyenne Life to find your answers)

 
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