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Your goal for this project is to provide enough research and information to be able to write an authoritative research article to be published and shared with the community and then stored in the new Native American Research Library. With your fellow researchers you will do a a presentation to the local members of your community using Power Point in an effort to provide a more accurate pictures of life in the local Native American Tribes.

The university has provided you and your fellow researchers with some guiding questions which they hope will be the focus of their New Native American Research Library. Below are the guiding questions..

Geography:

How does the geographic area your Native American tribe lives in affect their way of life, and how has it influenced their daily life?

Communications:

What is the language of the Native American group you are studying?
How do they use this language to communicate?

Daily Life:

What was daily life for your Native American Tribe like?
[Include: Clothing, ceremonies, tools, food gathering (agriculture and hunting), weapons and dwellings.]

Culture and Religion:

What are the unique traditions of your tribe? Discuss their traditional ceremonies, dances and festivals.
Describe the tribes religion and how it influences their day and life.

Society:

What have been the positive and negative effects of Europeans/Western Civilization settlements in your tribes lands. Explain using a couple of examples.
 

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