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Architecture 
Hogan Construction
A detailed guide to Navajo hogan construction 
The
Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use
Gladys Laubin (Contributor), Stanley Vestal, Reginald Laubin. The classic
book.You can survive a North Dakota winter.
Iroquois
Village
How palisaded villages were built. 
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Bear & Other Meat
Assinboin
Bear Meat
Ages 9-12.
Dried
Meat (Pemmican)
We don't go on long hunts, just long plane rides with no
food. Ages 5-8.
Assinboin
Stew
The recipe calls for bear, but beef will do. Ages 12+
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Cattails
How
to Make Cattail Flour
Mostly you can see how hard it is to do. Ages 4-8
About Cattails
Paper Bread
(piki)
Pueblo. Can be made in blue, pink, or yellow. Ages 9-12.
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Dolls
Make Cornhusk
Dolls
It's harder than you think.
Kachina
Dolls
Make from spools of thread. Ages 4-8.
Interactive
Paper Dolls
If the cornhusk dolls are too hard, this will work for
ages 4-8.
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Corn
Everything
Corn
From the agricultural extension department of Purdue university
Native
Corn Recipes
Commentary on recipes + how to roast or microwave corn
from the late Paula Giese.
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Masks
Masks
and other Crafts
Ages 4-8.
NW
Masks & Totems
Ages 4-8.
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Seafood
How to Catch and
Eat Fresh Salmon
Kwakuitl
How to
Catch and Eat Sea Slugs
They are pretty slimy so cooking them is a real art. Kwakuitl
How
to Eat Halibut
Kwakuitl
How
to Share a Whale
Of course you share a whale. This is the polite Kwakuitl
way
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Beadwork
Plains Beadwork
A Lakota moccasin.
Arapaho
symbol for beadwork
See a classic Arapaho symbol well-suited to beadwork.
Shoshone beadwork
Children's moccasins.
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Snake
Jellied
Snake
Blackfoot recipe. You don't eat the insides. Ages 9-12.
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Prickly Pear (Nopales)
Prickly
Pear Syrup
Jarabe de nopalitos. One way to get your vegetables. Ages
9-12.
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Lacrosse
Lacrosse
The Oneida community's own history of their game.
Toli
A stick and ball game much like lacrosse but played by southeastern communities.
Lenape
A lacrosse-like game called Pahsahëman.
Inuit
Bolas
The classic gaucho round-up as used at the other end of
the Americas.
Doubleball
Scroll past the moccasin story to see a Northwest coast
girls game. Ages 9-12.
History
of Lacrosse's adoption
How lacrosse moved to the US and Canadian mainstream.
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A Collection
of Native American Games
The comparisons and analyses are good for teachers.
Bowl Game
A basic version of the game that young children could play. Ages. 4-8.
Small games
For sale by an Abenaki community organization. Good prices.
Stick
Games
A widespread but complicated game. Ages 12+.
Inuit
Inuit
Bones
For the aspiring veterinarian, a game in which you race
to put the seal's flipper bones together. Plastic models or paper will
work just as well. Ages 12+
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Games of the North American Indians: Games of Skill
(book) Stewart Culin, Dennis Tedlock (Introduction)
Games
invented by Native Americans
Interactive
Native American
Games
Scroll down and play their interactive games
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