CURTAIN UP Booklet 132 Native Peoples of North America

CURTAIN UP Booklet 132 Native Peoples of North America "The Residents of Turtle Island" We take a "different look" at the original North America and the variety of traditions, languages and ways of life. Our little readers learn why "Indians" is an erroneous collective term, what misjudgments and clichés are widespread about the more than 500 indigenous nations and that we could avoid wars by getting to know and love everything foreign. What did the indigenous people really look like, where and how did they live and what were they particularly good at? Together we visit the peacemakers on the Atlantic coast, the skilful horsemen on the prairie, the carvers along the Pacific coast and their totem poles as well as the Navajos and Hopis in the rocky desert. We'll hear the story of the Sky Woman descending to Turtle Island and learn what a powwow is in modern times. In our removable handicraft sheet, our readers get a suggestion on how they can build a forest landscape from the east coast themselves with simple natural materials and cut out two canoes with canoeists and accessories. There are games to make you laugh and catch and tasty recipes from traditional festivals, as well as lots of colorful crafts: making a dream catcher, a natural loom and a birch bark container. Curtain up for the original, different North America and the unbelievable variety of traditions, languages and ways of life of the North American indigenous people. In the parent part we take a critical look at the term "Native American", deal with the question of "cultural appropriation" and deal with cancel culture. We also report on the natives in Canada and give detailed instructions on how to build a model and children's tipi.