Native American Project

Task: Conduct a research project detailing the region, history, and culture of your assigned Native American tribe and complete a 2 page paper on your tribe.

Research: You will begin your research using note cards. You must use a minimum of 3 sources. You may use your text book for one source. You may use the Internet for one source also. You will document your sources in a bibliography.

Format:

1. Cover Page: Name of tribe and your name

2. 2 pages of the report: must include and introduction paragraph and a conclusion paragraph. Paragraphs must be more than 4 sentences long. You must include information on the history of your tribe, the regions of your tribe, and the culture of your tribe.

3. Bibliography: List your sources in alphabetical order.

Special Notes: Your paper may be more than 2 pages. You must have at least 5 paragraphs.

Due Date: Note cards on research- Dec 5

Final Paper- January 9

Rubric:

Culture: 20 points

Region: 15 points

History: 15 points

Introduction: 10 points

Conclusion: 10 points

Spelling and Punctuation: 10 points

Five or more paragraphs: 5 points

Two or more pages: 5 points

Bibliography: 10 points

Native American Research Project

History:

1. What years were the most important to the tribe? Why?

2. Where they in any wars? What and when were they?

3. If they were in wars what weapons and resources did they have?

4. When did the tribe develop?

5. Why did the tribe develop?

6. Were there any important people in the tribe? Why were they important?

7. Is the tribe still around? If not, what happened?

8. Are there any more important dates for the tribe? What are they?

9. How big was (is) the tribe?

Region

1. What resources did they have?

- animals

-plants

-water sources

2. Where does (did) the tribe live? (Past and Present)

3. What is the climate like?

Culture:

1. What food did they eat?

2. How did they get their food?

3. How did they use the animals they killed?

4. What did they do for a living (jobs- males versus females)?

5. What did they live in?

6. Do they still live there today?

7. What was the role of children?

8. What was important to them?

9. What was their government?

10. What were (are) their traditions?

-religious

-daily

-food

11. In what did they believe?

12. What language do they speak?

13. What did they use to travel?

14. Did they have any customs? What were they?

Conclusion:

A good conclusion will include details about the tribe today.