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Students may choose to make a cultural survival kit for a visit with one of the Plains Indian tribes. Remind students to think about which tools and items were available then and which were not. Find out more:
Luxton Museum of the Plains Indian
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Explain to students that the designs in Jennie's blankets tell the history of her people and hand down their traditions.
Rosalie Little Thunder led protests to save the buffalo at Yellowstone National Park. You might want to have students research other groups that are working to save animals in the environment. They can visit the Web sites of groups like Greenpeace that are working to save the rain forests.
To learn more about Rosalie Little Thunder and her work in the Buffalo War.
To learn more about Yellowstone National Park.
Early Life on the Great Plains
