Native Americans

In Social Studies we have been learning about Native Americans. We have been comparing and contrasting different tribes and their lifestyles from around the world.
We started off with the Inuit Tribe learning they were from the Arctic, lived in igloos, wore clothes made from animal skin and fur, the men hunted and fished, the women sewed and cooked, the sons learned from their father and daughters from their mothers. We also learned their main source of food was seals.
The Wampanoag Tribe was located in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island areas. They lived in wetus-which were dome shaped houses like igloos but made from cedar saplings that were bent into an arch and covered with bark from poplar or ash trees. There was a hole in the roof to let the smoke from the cooking fire. The men hunted and the women collected berries and planted. The children also helped out their parents.
We have now moved on to the Cherokee Tribe and learned they originally lived in house made from clay but evolved to log houses.
We read The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush which is about an Indian boy named Little Gopher whois smaller than all of the other children in his tribe and not able to ride horses, run and shoot bows and arrows with them. He finds out that he has a special talent when a Dream-Vision comes to him and we spends most of his life trying to paint a picture as pure as the night sky. After we read the story we decorated a bag to resemble Native American pottery and filled it with paintbrushes.