During Native American Heritage Month, why don’t we include all the native peoples of the Americas? We are all familiar with the Incas, the Aztecs, the Mayas, etc. But very little is known about the indigenous peoples of South America that lived outside the Incan empire. I could start by naming los picunches, los pehuelches, los […]
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History of the Native American Heritage Month November is Native American Heritage Month. But it hasn’t always been. In fact, that designation is relatively new, not appearing nationwide until 1990. Previously, individual states decided whether or not to dedicate a day or a week to honor Native Americans. New York was the first state to
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Welcome to the Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop!The Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop is a place where bloggers can share multicultural activities, crafts, recipes, and musings for our creative kids. We can’t wait to see what you share this time! Created by Frances of Discovering the World through My Son’s Eyes, the blog hop has
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If you’ve ever been to a pow-wow or listened to Native American music, you’ve probably heard the great big sound of a group drum, called a pow-wow drum. Here’s a craft that will allow you to recreate the type of drumming done at pow-wows and get the experience of making that type of music together
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North America has many different native cultures from the Arctic to South Mexico, and from the West Coast across to the East Coast. Where to start, and how to write up one blog post on Native American cultures when there are entire university degrees about any one of these interesting and diverse cultures? The children’s
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