1. Describe why it is important to learn about your tribe.
2. Name three unique aspects of your tribe
3. Describe your tribal/native history.
4. Name three past accomplishments of your tribe.
5. Name three present accomplishments of your tribe.
6. Describe the purpose of traditional tribal customs.
7. Interview at least two elders on their thoughts of the past, present and future.
8. Describe your tribe’s relationship with other tribes..
9. Describe your family lineage and the role of the family in the tribe.
10. Name four traditional foods.
11. Describe traditional spirituality.
12. Describe one traditional dance
13. Describe traditional medicines
14. Describe a traditional way of passing on historical information.
15. Research and record the history of the community, if unknown

Activities:

Building Native Communities    Session 6, Accessing Credit, Part II, Financial Systems Before European Contact

Expanding the Circle    Theme 1, Unit 4, Lesson 1, Community Timeline    Theme 1, Unit 4, Lesson 4, Picture Book

PATH    88, Legal Rights

Web Resource    Essentials of Indian Citizenship, Tracing Your Indian Ancestors    Federally Recognized American Indian Tribes    Native American, Internet Resources, Contains Links to Directories, History Pages and General Sites    Native American Internet Resources, American Indian Tribal Directory    Native Americans at Princeton    Native American Sites, Numerous Sites Listed    The Wild West    WWW Virtual Library, American Indians, Index of Native American Resources on the Internet, Culture, History, Nations

1. Describe why knowing about your family history applies to your transition from elementary, middle, and high school.
2. Describe the importance of knowing one’s family history (e.g. identify relatives and clans/bands responsible to teach future generations, tribal enrollment).
3. Complete family interviews to gather genealogical information.

Activities:

Expanding the Circle    Theme 1, Unit 3, Lesson 2, Complete Family Interviews and Research to Determine Family History

Web Resource    Essentials of Indian Citizenship, Tracing Your Indian Ancestors

1. Speaks and/or understands spoken and/or written native language.
2. Demonstrate preparing three traditional tribal foods.
3. Participate in at least four tribal/native community activities each year.
4. Describe at least three traditional tribal customs.
5. Participate in at least three traditional tribal customs.
6. Recognize traditional tribal dances.
7. Describe two tribal/native ceremonies.
8. As appropriate, participate in at least two tribal ceremonies.
9. Describe any inventions, games, occupations or customs unique to your tribe.
10. Describe significant personal cultural events you’ve experienced.
11. Describe how traditional customs help a modern world.
12. Describe how to access traditional healing and/or other ceremonies.
13. Describe roles of relatives and how to access relatives.

Activities:

Expanding the Circle    Theme 1, Unit 4, Lesson 4, Picture Book    Theme 1, Unit 5, Lesson 4, My Cultural Timeline

PATH    97, Group Involvement

Web Resource    Federally Recognized American Indian Tribes    Native Americans at Princeton, Links to American Indian Nations    Native American Site, Information on Individual Native Nations    Ten Reasons to be a Tribal Member    WWW Virtual Library, American Indians, Index of Native American Resources on the Internet, Culture, History, Nations