Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDate Posted: 9/21/2010
The resources American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving, Harvest Ceremony: Beyond the Thanksgiving Myth from the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian examine the deeper meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday for American Indians through the themes of environment, community, encounters, and innovations and provide information on the history of the Wampanoag people and the ceremony that inspired our Thanksgiving celebrations.
Discussions, Museum education
This Dutch map, made about 1655, shows eastern North America from what is now Canada to Virginia....
Native American, Thanksgiving, harvest, American Indian, Indian, ceremony, Massachusetts, celebration, holiday, colonial, food, 17th century, pilgrim, autumn, colony, Wampanoag, American Indian Heritage Month, 1621, November, Native American Heritage Month
Baylor uses prose-poetry to tell the story behind the broken clay pots scattered across the south...
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