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URL Resources to Prepare for the Powwow

What Is a Pow-wow?

Check out these sites for answers to all your questions on the Native American traditional gathering of tribes.

www.PowWows.com Information on dance styles, competitions, drums, event listings, more.

http://pride-net.com/native_indians/pow-wow.html Detailed breakdown of information, including important vocabulary words.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida is the host of DNA 2000. However, many Indian Nations will be participating in the event, from all over North America! To find out more about some of the tribes that may be participating, consult:

Indian Circle This website, created by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, is the most comprehensive listing of Federally Recognized Tribes on the internet, with their official homepages. Lots of links are available to other Native American resources on this site.

How can I find out about the history of the Seminole Tribe?

The best resource for the history, art, culture, and all other pertinent facts for the Seminole Tribe on the web is the Seminole Tribe home page:

Seminole Tribe of Florida

There are some excellent articles you can also check out on Florida Seminole history:

History of the Seminoles
The Second Seminole War
Seminole Indian History
Osceola History of the Florida Indians

These sites have teaching information, suggestions, and resource listings.

Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum A very informative site on www.education-world.com.

Teaching Young Children About Native Americans. Suggests ways to help dispel dated, stereotypical and misrepresentative information about Native Americans.

Books for Young Readers A listing of books and publishers of Native American topics for young readers.

We are currently in the process of developing lesson plans specific to the Seminole Tribe, many of which are already in use at the Ahfachkee School on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation.

First Peoples on Schoolnet First Peoples on Schoolnet Lots of links to lesson plans and curriculum ideas for all sorts of different tribes.

RETANET Resources for Teaching About the Americas (RETANET)

Index of Native American Teaching Resources on the Internet

Where can I learn about Native American archaeology and artifacts? At the Children's Village, there will be an archaeological "dig" site that contains real Indian artifacts! To learn more about Native archeology and how to recognize some of the artifacts you will unearth, consult:

Index of Native American Archaeology and Anthropology Resources on the Internet

For information on the Ahfachkee School: Ahfachkee School

Ahfachkee is also part of a national community of nineteen Native American-majority schools across the country called Four Directions, which seeks to create websites and share curricula between all of the schools. For information: Four Directions Program

There are numerous sites that contain lesson plans for Native American Studies. Of these, we have only found one specific to the Seminole Tribe:

Green Corn Dance Lesson Plan

There is also a lesson plan available to help study Life in Early Florida Missions and Indian Villages:

Life in Early Missions and Indian Villages Lesson Plan

Until we expand the resources available for Seminole studies, we encourage you to use the lesson plans available for other tribes or for general Native American studies, which can be applied to any tribe, including Seminole. Here are a few to get you started:

Pro Teacher! Native American Lesson Plans, Levels K-6 Lesson plans for both historical and modern Indian Tribes.

Mr. Donn's History Page An extensive listing of lesson plans relevant to Native American Studies.

Native American Thematic Unit Lesson Plan For upper elementary level students.

Native Quilts at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian Free lesson plans are available relevant to this Smithsonian exhibit, which can also be viewed on the web.

www.cradleboard.org Buffy St. Marie's brainchild of creating core curriculum units for Elementary, Middle, and High School students in Geography, History, Social Studies, Music and Science. All topics are taught with Native American examples and models.

www.nativechild.org Teaching ideas for preschoolers. While the lesson plans aren't actually listed here (you have to order them), the concepts are, and these can be used as an outline for discovery at DNA 2000!