Format
1. This program begins with a discussion about the National Park Service "arrowhead" emblem.
2. Participants then watch a short introductory video about Sleeping Bear Dunes.
3. We get into the core of the program, first by introducing who the Anishinaabe are along with how they lived traditionally.
4. Participants will say the four seasons in Ojibwemowin (an Anishinaabe dialect) out loud.
5. Starting with spring, different traditional activities are described during each of the four seasons.
6. During the seasonal discussion, participants will begin drawing on their birchbark basket cut-out model.
7. A brief note about boarding schools and their impacts on Indigenous peoples.
8. Time is allowed for questions and answers.
Objectives
The participant will:
-discover which tribes make up the Anishinaabe.
-learn how to say the names of the four seasons in Ojibwemowin.
-describe some traditional activities undertaken by the Anishinaabe each year.
-create and decorate their own "birchbark" basket paper model.
-develop an appreciation for how the Anishinaabe harvest materials sustainably from their environment.
-list ways in which boarding schools negatively impacted the Anishinaabe.
Standards Alignment
State Standards
3rd grade: 3-H3.0.1; 3-H3.0.4; 3-H3.0.6; G4.0.4; G5.0.1;
4th grade: 4-H3.0.5; 4-H3.0.7;
5th grade: 5-U1.1.2