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Picture the Past

 

Picture the Past

Compare your life to the life of a Woodland Indian your age living 1,000 years ago. Fill in the information asked for below using what you have learned about the Woodland Indians of the past and compare that to your life now.

 

Woodland Indian

You

Where they lived in the winter

 

Where you live in the winter
How they would get their food

 

How you get your food
What they did for fun

 

What you do for fun
Where they put someone who had died

 

Where you put someone who has died
Who they would be with at a feast or celebration

 

Who you would be with at a feast or celebration
How they would know it is dinner time

 

How you would know it is dinner time
Which ways of life of the Woodland Indian are similar to yours?

 

Which ones are different?

 

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Effigy Mounds National Monument

 

Bird Mounds: Effigy Mounds National Monument today - is a sacred site to many American Indians.  

Did You Know?
Effigy Mounds National Monument is located in territory that was hotly contested by Indians and the American government. In 1832, the U.S. forced the Sauk and Fox tribes to cede land south of the “Neutral Ground” along the Mississippi River, which included the lands of the present National Monument.

Last Updated: July 30, 2009 at 17:12 EST