Farming: The Three Sisters and the First Farmers
Grades 4–6 history class: farming in the Americas — the first farmers and the Three Sisters.
Open the classGrades 4–6 — The Peoples and Their Work
Indigenous History of the Americas — History Classes · Level band: Grades 4–6
DRAFT — CULTURAL REVIEW PENDING. These history classes are a publisher’s draft blend of the Collection’s Indigenous history research, standing on its own website. Indigenous cultural review precedes any public release of this strand. Readings carry the research labels unchanged: Documented Fact · Tradition — the people’s own account · Debated / Claim. This page carries no advertising.
English edition — the language editions of the history classes are outstanding and will follow the site’s translation pattern; none is fabricated here.
Selected knowledge and practices only: communities, farming, preserving the harvest, canoes, crafts, trade, the buffalo. No residential-school specifics stand in this band, and the genocide, disease and war chapters are not set as student reading here — those stand in the senior classes.
Preserving the Harvest: Keeping the Garden Through Winter
Grades 4–6 history class: preserving the harvest — corn braided and hung in the longhouse, the Hidatsa winter-cellar pit, dried beans and squash rings, the Pueblo storerooms, and manoomin in cedar bags. Goes with the Farming class.
Open the classThe Buffalo and the Peoples of the Plains
Grades 4–6 history class: the buffalo — the jumps, the pounds, and the peoples who followed the herds.
Open the classCanoes: Birchbark, Dugout and Skin Boats
Grades 4–6 history class: how the peoples made their canoes.
Open the classCrafts: Clay, Fibre, Quill and Basket
Grades 4–6 history class: the crafts — pottery, weaving, quillwork and basketry.
Open the classTrade Amongst Themselves
Grades 4–6 history class: how the peoples traded with each other.
Open the classBannock: The Bread That Travelled and Fed Everyone
Grades 4–6 history class: bannock — the bread that crossed the ocean in the canoes, was made the peoples' own, and fed everyone at the fire.
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