Format
1. This program begins with a brief introduction to the Knife River Indian Villages for first time visitors.
2. We then discuss the rolls and responsibilities of the people within the village.
3. Next we move into the American Indian uses of the buffalo while viewing actual parts, and the items made from those parts.
4. Finally time is allowed for questions and answers.
Objectives
• Explain Hidatsa/Mandan/Arikara Lifeways: Archeological Connections to the Knife River Indian Villages
• Describe village life of the Hidatsa and Mandan groups during the peak of their culture in the early 19th century.
• Compare what we know from archaeology about the seasonally nomadic Plains Villagers with the more popularized film and textbook history of nomadic horse-culture Indians such as the Lakota and Cheyenne.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
NSS-USH.K-4.1 LIVING AND WORKING TOGETHER IN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, NOW
AND LONG AGO
• Understands family life now and in the past, and family life in various places long ago.
• Understands the history of the local community and how communities in North America varied long ago.
NSS-USH.5-12.4 ERA 4: EXPANSION AND REFORM (1801-1861)
• Understands United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861,and how it affected relations with external powers and American Indians.
• Understands how the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions.
• Understands the extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800.
• Understands the sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period.