1. What can you remember?

2. When you think of the Native Americans you should think of 5 areas of their life. Can you work out what these are? Lifestyle Culture BeliefsWarfare Hunting

3. Around the room are five pieces of sugar paper, one on each of the areas. Wander round and add what facts you can to each one! BEWARE – when your teacher says stop all those near each piece of paper will present this info to the rest of the class!

4. As the info is presented from each group make notes on an A3 sheet to summaries each of the 5 areas! !WOW! I’ve just created an A3 mind map on the Native Americans with everything I need to learn! How easy was that!?

5. You are about to be shown a series of images. For each one – Discuss – what can you infer about Native American Culture from this image? BEWARE- your teacher may pick your pair to come up to the interactive board and annotate the image with your inferences!

6. Comanche Lodge of Buffalo Skins

7. Band of Sioux moving camp

8. An Indian by Catlin

9. Chief and his family

10. Buffalo Hunt Chase with bows and lances 1832-33

11. Comanche village, women dressing robes and drying meat 1834-1835

12. Battle between Sioux and Sauk and Fox

13. Mandan Scalping an enemy

14. Medicine man performing his mysteries over a dying man

15. Sun Dance by Catlin

16. Buffalo Dance, 1845

17. FINALLY What big factors led to the Plains Indians successful survival on the Plains? Which were most important?