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Download full textNorthwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1977
Designed as supplementary reading materials appropriate for Indian and non-Indian children in the primary grades, this series of 20 booklets presents legends and stories of Northwest tribes. Stories in this first level of a six-level series were developed by the Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, Skokomish, Shoshone-Bannock, Crow, and Muckleshoot…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Childhood Interests
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1978
Designed as supplementary reading materials for Indian and non-Indian children in the primary grades, this series of 10 booklets presents 13 legends and 7 stories of Northwest tribes. Stories in this second level of the six-level series were developed cooperatively by people of the Crow, Muckleshoot, Skokomish, Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Childhood Interests
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1978
Designed as supplementary reading materials for Indian and non-Indian children in the primary grades, this series of 20 booklets presents legends and stories of Northwest tribes. Stories in this third level of the six-level series were developed cooperatively by people of the Blackfeet, Kootenai, Jamestown-Clallam, Assiniboine, Sioux,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Childhood Interests
Baker, Frances S. – 1978
Legends can be incorporated into elementary social studies curricula to help students understand how people transmitted history and culture from one generation to another before they learned to read and write. Taga the Great is a legend which helps explain the 16-feet high latte stones on the Mariana Islands, Tinian and Rota. According to legend,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Books, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature
Real Bird, Henry; And Others – 1977
Program philosophy and learning activities are presented in this teacher's guide to a supplementary reading and language development program that features stories and legends from Northwest tribes. The guide is companion to Levels I, II, and III of the Northwest Indian Reading Series which consists of 60 booklets arranged in a planned sequence…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, American Indians
