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Yes Ma’am
By Cheryl Graham
Are these Coastal Natives?
Are these Coastal Natives?
How did their environment support them?
How did their environment constrain them?
How did their environment support them?
longhouses.
How did their environment constrain them?
Yes, Ma’am!
Yes, Ma’am!
Provided salmon and shellfish.
Limited their food choices.
Provided cedar trees for
Are these Plateau Natives?
Are these Plateau Natives?
How did their environment support them?
plants.
How did their environment constrain them?
Yes, Ma’am!
Yes, Ma’am!
Provided deer, fish, elk and
How did their environment support them?
mats.
How did their environment constrain them?
Forced them to use boats for
transportation.
Forced them to migrate in
search of food.
Provided grasses to make woven
Forced them to use dogs to
carry supplies.
Anthropology Bugaloo
By Cheryl Graham
I’m an anthropologist and I’m here to say,
I study native peoples every day.
Sometimes I ask questions, or hear a shaman’s song,
Researching culture all day long.
Language, traditions, environment too,
Doing the Anthropology Bugaloo!
I study about people and what they used,
For hunting, fishing and cooking food.
I learn about shelter that people lived in,
Made of cedar planks, earth or animal skin.
Language, traditions, environment too,
Doing the Anthropology Bugaloo!
I research special events of early life
Along with natural everyday strife.
I study the tools natives created,
For their survival technology aided.
Language, traditions, environment too,
Doing the Anthropology Bugaloo!
I study about each region and culture
From the information that I gather.
I carefully record native celebrations,
Handed down through many generations.
Language, traditions, environment too,
Doing the Anthropology Bugaloo!
Native Americans Here, Native Americans There
By Taffy Carlise-Turner
Native Americans here, Native Americans there,
Native Americans everywhere!
Resourceful Native Americans canoeing,
Hardworking Native Americans building,
Nomadic Native Americans hunting,
And happy Native Americans celebrating.
Salmon in the Columbia River,
Deer throughout the Plateau Region
Whales breaching the Pacific Ocean,
And horses roaming across the land.
Native Americans here, Native Americans there,
Native Americans everywhere!
Native Americans! Native Americans! Native Americans!
I Can Spell
By Cori Chambers and Cheryl Graham
I can spell native,
n-a-t-i-v-e
I can spell people,
p-e-o-p-l-e
I can spell tribe,
t-r-i-b-e
But, I can’t spell environment!
I can spell plants
p-l-a-n-t-s
I can spell berries,
b-e-r-r-i-e-s
I can spell roots,
r-o-o-t-s
But, I can’t spell environment!
I can spell animal,
a-n-i-m-a-l
I can spell deer,
d-e-e-r
I can spell salmon,
s-a-l-m-o-n
But, I can’t spell environment!
I can spell hunt,
h-u-n-t
I can spell carve,
c-a-r-v-e
I can spell weave,
w-e-a-v-e
But, I can’t spell environment!
Yes I can!
Yes I can!
E-N-V-I-R-O-N-M-E-N-T
Environment
CEDAR HERE, CEDAR THERE
By Laura Curry
Cedar here, cedar there,
Cedar was useful everywhere!
Cedar logs being hollowed,
Cedar bark being shredded,
Cedar roots being woven,
And cedar planks being split.
Tall cedar for totem poles,
Masks of wolf and raven, too.
Bent cedar for cooking bowls,
And a cedar whaling canoe.
Cedar here, cedar there,
Cedar was useful everywhere!
Cedar! Cedar! Cedar!
NATIVE AMERICANS HERE, NATIVE AMERICANS THERE
By Renee Rodriquez, Jan Smithson, Jessica Vigil, Sally Dueweke, 2007
Native Americans here, Native Americans there,
Native Americans, Native Americans everywhere!
Adventurous Native Americans settling,
Brave Native Americans traveling,
Strong Native Americans climbing,
Peaceful Native Americans adapting.
Native Americans on the rocky Coast,
Native Americans across the desert Plateau,
Native Americans in the Cascade Mountains,
And Native Americans in our state.
Native Americans here, Native Americans there,
Native Americans, Native Americans everywhere!
NATIVE AMERICANS! NATIVE AMERICANS! NATIVE AMERICANS!