lo: identify traditional native american · • christopher columbus was a famous spanish explorer....
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LO: Identify traditional Native American
dress.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
• Christopher Columbus was a famous Spanish explorer.
• In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Europe to America across the Atlantic ocean in a wooden sail boat, using the stars and sun to navigate.
• Columbus thought he had arrived in India and so mistakenly called the Native Americans ‘Indians’.
• The new lands he found was named 'The New World'. When he returned back to Spain he took some of the Native Americans with him along with other items such as gold and spices.
What do you
think the first
impressions of
both the
native
Americans
and the
European
settlers was of
each other?
First impressions of Native Americans
– what did they wear?
One of the most common materials used in Native American clothing
was animal skins. Over many years, Native Americans developed
ways of tanning animal hides so that they became soft leather. The leather was used for shoes and clothing, and
sometimes as a covering for their homes. Some Native American tribes believed that wearing the skin of an animal gave the wearer some of the animal’s strength and power. Sometimes, an animal’s tail would be left intact and used at the neckline, something like a furry necklace!
Often they wore shirts or tunics as well. In some tribes,
like the Cherokee and the Apache, the women wore longer
buckskin dresses. Most Native Americans wore some kind
of footwear. This was usually a shoe made of soft leather
called a moccasin.
•Prior to the Europeans arriving, American Indians used wood,
shells, and bone to make beads to decorate their clothing and
make jewellery. Later they would start using the European's glass
beads.
•The brain of the animal was sometimes used in the tanning process
because of its chemical properties.
•Plains Indians sometimes wore breastplates made of bone for
armour when going to war.
•The most popular kind of headdress was not the feathered one
you see on TV a lot, but one called a roach. The roach was made
from animal hair, generally stiff porcupine hair.
•Elaborate clothes, headdresses, and masks were often used in
religious ceremonies
Draw a picture
of a native
American
when
Christopher
Columbus
arrived in North
America and
label key
features of the
items they
wear.
Write a diary entry
from the view
point of Christopher
Columbus
about what he
saw when he first
met
the Native Americans.
At the end of
the entry include a labelled diagram.
Dear Diary, 3rd August 1942
We came across land today, after weeks of sailing the
cruel, harsh seas of the Atlantic. My men and I were just
about ready to give up trying to find the continent of Asia
when suddenly, one of my men shouted the words I had
longed to hear, the words I had dreamt every night “Land
ahead!”
“Was this it?” I thought. “Had we finally reached Asia?”
As we approached the vast land, ten of my best sailors and
myself jumped down into the tender boats to bring us to
shore. We cautiously crept onto the hard, muddy soil and
what approached us was a sight I had never seen
before…….