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Native American History - Lesson Plans for Teachers

These are Free use lesson plans and units for kids and teachers to use in your unit study of American Indians. We teach 5/6, but these lessons can be adjusted for any grade. We hope you'll find some ideas you can use. 

Stories: American Indians were great story tellers. Stories were not written down. They were told orally, usually by the tribe's storyteller(s). Like many of the games the kids were taught, stories were used to teach good behavior. As much as the kids, and the adults, loved gathering to hear stories, they understood that stories had meaning beyond simple entertainment. Stories, myths and legends were and still are a very important part of Native American culture and their educational system. If you use any of the stories that Mrs. Donn retold for our classes and put freely online for you to use in your classroom, if you choose, ask your kids, as the elders did long ago: What does this story tell us about good and bad behavior? (Donn)

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