This morning we visited the Knife River Indian Villages. This is the village where Sakakawea was believed to have lived as a young girl. We watched a wonderful video about a young Indian girl growing up in this village. We saw replicas of the types of tools she would have used to plant her crops. Mrs. Roberts and I went inside an earthen lodge which would have been like her summer home.
Mrs. Roberts, what is the thing you are holding?
ReplyDeleteJulia
Awesome! It would be cool to live there.
ReplyDeleteVictoria N.
that sounds cool I think the things that you are holding look awesome i wonder what they called the objects.Lindsay
ReplyDeleteJulia, I am holding a digging stick that would have been used in gardening.
ReplyDeleteIf it is just a stick then why did they use it I have tried digging with a stick I doesn't really work couldn't they just put a piece of flat wood on the end of it, that would work a lot easier?
Delete-Sophie
They needed something that had a sharp point to use for digging Think about this, Sophie......if you went to the sandbox on the playground and held your hand flat, would you be able to dig down into the sand? Would it be easier to dig a hole with just your pointer finger? Experiment with these next time you are on the playground. (I'm on Break duty on Mondays, so just remind me that you are doing an experiment!)
DeleteThanks i will do that when we get back from spring break. (If I remember).
DeleteNext time you go take me with you please.
ReplyDeleteHayden.
is that dead animal used as a scarf????!!! aggghhhh!! -Olivia♣
ReplyDeleteIs that a animal skin slingshot?-Emily
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not mistaken, Mrs. Wilensky, that is a coyote pelt. Am I correct?
ReplyDeleteThanks to Julia and Mrs. Roberts, we know picture #2 has a digging stick in it. It was something the Mandans and Hidatsas used in their gardens. The other two tools in that picture are also used in a garden. Can you guess what they are?
The one with the antler is some sort of ho or is it the other way around?
DeleteThe one with the hollowed out wood is some sort of funnel to get the seeds in the hole that the digging stick made.
-Sophie
That coyote pelt looks pretty cozy. And yes, Olivia, I think it is.
ReplyDelete-Remy
I think it was for the fur but I could be wrong.
Delete-Sophie
Is one a rake for harvesting?
ReplyDelete-Lucy
Good thinking, Lucy! The rake is made by attaching an antler (like from a deer) to a long wooden handle.
DeleteThat scarf is really cool!!! It's cool how the Native Americans used that tool for digging!
ReplyDeleteMina:)
It looks super cold in North Dakota -Anne
ReplyDeleteIs that an axe?-Madeline and Campbell
ReplyDeleteI never saw a scarf like that. I want one-Anne
ReplyDeleteWould they use the scarf WITH THE HEAD? I do not think
ReplyDeleteI would want a scarf that was looking at me!
Madeline:0