U.S.I - UNIT 2 LESSON: Exploring Native Americans Through the Edward S. Curtis Collection

TEACHER: Christine Plagata-Neubauer

OBJECTIVE: The student will make inferences about the environment and the influence of the environment on a Native American tribe’s way of life by examining photographs from the Edward S. Curtis Collection.

STANDARD: USI.3 – The student will demonstrate knowledge of how early cultures developed in North America by (b) locating where the Native Americans lived, with emphasis on the Artic (Inuit), Northwest (Kwakiutl), Plains (Lakota), Southwest (Pueblo), and Eastern Woodland (Iroquois) and (c) describing how the Native Americans used the resources in their environment.

DIRECTIONS: As a reflection and assessment component, print out the pictures (eliminating captions) and allow the students to sort.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99615155/

Title: Eskimo fur dealer Other Title: Eskimo fur dealer, Nome Creator(s): Lomen Bros., photographer Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1900 and ca. 1930]

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005688375/

Title: Eskimo family from Labrador Seattle A.Y.P.E. Date Created/Published: c1909 October 25. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Photograph showing two Inuit couples and two children, with backdrop of snow covered log

buildings in background.

http://www.loc.gov/item/99446185

Map of Alaska, Yukon Territory and British Columbia showing connections of the White Pass and Yukon route. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Contributor: Marsh & Grant CoSite: American Memory-cultural - Main CatalogOriginal Format:

Map

Date: 1904

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/91730903/

Title: Hopi hair dresser, Arizona Date Created/Published: c1909. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Kneeling Hopi woman combing and arranging hair of young girl.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/stereo.1s00327/

Title: War chief of the Zuni Indians. Creator(s): O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer Date Created/Published: [United States], 1873. Medium: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c19346/

Title: A Tewa maiden Date Created/Published: c1914. Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. Summary: A Tewa maiden, full-length portrait, standing with her back to stone and wood structure,

facing left.

NOTE: THE MAP OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO IS IN A SEPARATE MS WORD DOCUMENT FILE.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.02513/

Title: Indian chiefs who counciled with Gen. Miles and setteled [sic] the Indian War -- 1. Standing Bull, 2. Bear Who Looks Back Running [Stands and Looks Back], 3. Has the Big White Horse, 4. White Tail, 5. Liver [or Living] Bear, 6. Little Thunder, 7. Bull Dog, 8. High Hawk, 9. Lame, 10. Eagle Pipe

Creator(s): Grabill, John C. H., photographer Date Created/Published: 1891. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Posed group portrait of Lakota chiefs standing in front of tipi--probably on or near Pine

Ridge Indian Reservation.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97500333/resource/

Title: Sitting Bull's tepee and family Creator(s): Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934, photographer Date Created/Published: c1891. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Sitting Bull's family in front of tipi.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c01274/

Title: Primitive cooking Date Created/Published: c1911. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: High Bear, Brulé Sioux man cooking by throwing heated stones in beef-stomach container,

Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Dakota Territory http://www.loc.gov/resource/g4170.cws00194/Shows extent of public land surveys and historical notes and dates regarding exploration routes, battlegrounds, and Native American treaties and reservations.

Contributor: Durage, Julius J.Site: American Memory-cultural - Main CatalogOriginal Format:

Map

Date: 1878

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b00173/

Title: Qagyuhl village at Fort Rupert Creator(s): Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer Date Created/Published: c1914 November 13. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Totem pole commemorating a Tsimshian family towers over the village of Tsahes,

Vancouver Island.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c36565/

Title: A chief's party--Qagyuhl Creator(s): Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer Date Created/Published: c1910. Medium: 1 photographic print.

From the northern boundary of California to the Columbia River : from explorations and surveys / Scale 1:760,320.

Contributor: Williamson, R. S.Site: American Memory-cultural - Main CatalogOriginal Format:

Map

Date: 1859

http://www.loc.gov/item/98688434