Native American Essential Understandings
Native people practice self-determination, developing policies and practicing political activism.
What are Tribal policies, treaties, and sovereignty?
Map that shows physical features of the terrain
What is a physical map?
This tells you directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
The three regions of North Dakota.
What are the Missouri Plateau, Drift Prairie, and Red River Valley to North Dakota.
These prehistoric people were probably big-game hunters . Their contribution to ND was hunting and spear points.
Who were the paleo-indians?
Native people continue to contribute to all levels of society from local to global in diverse fields including medicine, science, government, education, economics, art, music, and many more.
What are native contributions?
Map that shows the elevation of an area
What is an elevation map?
This is where the lines of latitude and longitude cross on the globe.
What is the global grid?
The region that Fargo is located in.
What is the Red River Valley?
These people hunted buffalo. They brought pottery and the atlatl to ND.
Who were the archaic people?
Native people practice a deep interconnectedness with the land, the resources, the water, all living things and all human beings.
Map that shows us the amount of rainfall in an area
What is a rainfall map?
A part of the map that uses symbols to show you where things are on a map.
What is a map key?
This city is the geographical center of North America.
What is Rugby, ND?
These people came from the forests of Minnesota and Wisconsin. They contributed earth lodges and bow and arrows.
Who were the woodland people?
Individual and communal identity is defined and supported by shared Native languages, kinship systems, Tiospaye, Clan structures, traditional teachings, values, sacred laws and ceremonies.
What is Native identity?
Map that shows a measure of the average number of people living in an area
What is a population density map?
A tool used to show the distance between places on a map.
The badlands are located in this region.
What is the Missouri Plateau?
These are the three affiliated tribes of ND.
Who were the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara?
Traditional teaching and the passing on of knowledge and wisdom was done through storytelling, song, ceremony and daily way of life, often incorporating specific gender and age specific responsibilities.
What is learning and story telling?
Map that shows the division of land into regions by their common characteristics, patterns, and/or features.
What is a regional map?
This is used for cartography, city planning, weather prediction, and military surveillance.
What is a satellite image?
Turtle mountains and Devils lake can be found here.
What is the drift prairie?
This tribe lived in Wigwams and were excellent fur trappers.
Who were the Chippewa?