CONTRIBUTION
ACTIVITY FROM COURSE or WORKSHOP
A Sampling (health, sports, inventions,
resources, government, medicine, architecture, business, and food)
Questions/Answer Game (based on "A Sampling" above)
FOODS
(Wikipedia - food originating in the Americas)
Detailed
Food Explanations with Some History and Culture
Background
Agave
Amaranth
Arrowroot
Avocado
Beans
(14 varieties) How to cook
Brandy
(made from corn)
Corn
(How could the Romans have used corn?) Corn tastes better on the honor system
Cotton
Cranberries
Jerky
Maple
Sugar and Syrup
Papaya
Peanuts
Pecans
Pemmican
Pineapples
Popcorn
Potatoes
(all, including white and sweet)
Pumpkins
Quinoa
Quinine
Squash
Strawberries
Tapioca
(Manioc/Cassava) Yucca: Background.
Tomatoes
Turkeys
Vanilla
Walnuts
Watermelon
Wild
Rice
RECIPES
TECHNIQUES (PRACTICES), TECHNOLOGY & INVENTIONS
Posters (technology and food)
Abacus
Barbecue
Baskets
Cataract
surgery
Clam
bakes
Clothing
manufacture
Daily
bathing
Farming
methods (The Amazon is a man-made food forest)
Hammocks
Irrigation
systems
Needle
with “eye”
Vulcanization
10
Inventions That Changed the World
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/06/29/10-native-inventions-and-innovations-changed-world-155541?page=0%2C2
INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE EXCELLED IN THEIR FIELDS
Jim
Thorpe (athlete)
Billy
Mills (athlete)
Johnny
Bench (athlete)
Charles
Curtis (vice president of U.S.)
Maria
Tallchief (ballerina)
Johnny
Cash (entertainer)
Buffy
St. Marie (musician)
Will
Rogers (entertainer)
HISTORICAL HEROES WHO Fought for Native People to retain culture and land
CONTEMPORARY
ROLE MODELS Leaders
Crazy
Horse
Wovoka
Wilma
Mankiller
Sitting
Bull
Geronimo
Lone
Wolf
Matacom
(King Phillip)
Tecumseh
Sequoyah
Seathl
Nancy
Ward
Red
Jacket
PRODUCTS
Canoe
Cat’s
Cradle
Cigars
Coonskin
caps
Cradle
boards (baby carriers)
Fringed
buckskin jacket
Kayak
Moccasins
Pipe
smoking
Rubber
Shelters
Soaps
& shampoos
Snowshoes
Tipi
Tobacco
Toboggan
Tomahawk
SOME NATIVE AMERICAN WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Caribou
Chinook
Chipmunk
Cougar
Flathead
Mahogany
Miami
Milwaukee
Moccasin
Moose
Opossum
Ottawa
Pocatello
Seattle
Skunk
Spokane
Wichita
Woodchuck
Yakima
Some
Words that Went From the Americas to Europe
maize/corn
potatoes
tomatoes
pumpkins
llamas/alpacas
guinea
pigs
turkey
vanilla
avocados
bell
and chili peppers
cocoa
cashews
tobacco
sunflower
strawberry
rubber
pineapple
papaya
passion
fruit
zucchini
cranberries
squash
pecans
sweet
potato
Some
Words that Went From Europe to the Americas (Place names below)
cattle
horses/donkeys
honey
bees
pigs
apples
almonds
basil
cantaloupe
celery
egg
plant
olives
ginger
pistachios
rice
rye
soybeans
spinach
diseases
(small pox, influenza, measles, chicken pox and several others)
Some
Native Words Adopted into English
skunk
(Massachusett/Algonquin)
chipmunk
(Ojibwa)
opossum
(Algonquin)
raccoon,
moose and caribou (Algonquin)
hickory
(Algonquin)
pecan
(Illinois)
squash
(Narragansett)
caucus
(Algonquin)
avocado
(Nahuatl)
chili
(Nahuatl)
shack
(Xahcalli)
barbeque
(Arawak)
canoe
(Taino)
hammock
(Taino)
savanna
(Taino)
condor
(Quechua)
jerky
(Quechua)
hurricane
(Arawak)
jaguar
(Tupinamba)
cougar
(Guarani)
skunk (Wampanoag)
Some
Place Names
Alabama
(Choctaw)
Alaska
(Aleut)
Connecticut
(Algonquin)
Delaware
Illinois
(Algonquin/Miami)
Iowa
(Dakota)
Kansas
Kentucky
(Iroquois/Seneca)
Massachusetts
Mexico
(Nahuatl)
Michigan
(Ottawa)
Minnesota
(Algonquin/Ojibwa)
Mississippi
(Ojibwa)
Missouri
Ohio
(Seneca)
Oklahoma
(Choctaw)
Utah
(Ute)
Wisconsin
(Algonquin)
Wyoming
(Delaware)
There'd Be No U.S.A. Without Native Warriors
For over 200 years Native Americans have had the highest record of service in
the US military per capita when compared to other ethnic groups. This leaves
little doubt regarding the patriotism, love of land, family and warrior spirit
that still remains.
Not only have they served in every war, battle and conflict in support of
America—their fearless resolve was first on display in the countless ‘Indian
wars’ against Europeans in defense of tribal sovereignty and independence.
There's
a massive free catalogue of Indigenous films online — and we have 6 picks to get you started
AND, you might want to do "REVERSE CONTRIBUTIONS" to show what what the Native Americans received from Europeans. Here are some examples:
·
An interesting summary of Columbus's four voyages
with a connection to the 2010 Lunar Eclipse on Solstice, and his contribution
of "ship worms" to Europe.