Students will be able to: • Discuss difference between cultures with relation to animals. • Recognize the special significance and variation of painted lodge designs within Indian cultures and discuss why wild animals might be portrayed on a lodge. • Name the three animals that occur in the traditional Blackfeet, Kootenai, Salish, and Pend d’Oreille stories from the student reading and give a unique characteristic of each of those animals.
Recommended level: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
1. Painted Lodges: Animals, Culture, and Meaning