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Two doors
One day as Tiffi is walking through the HUB, she comes across two doors. That is very strange! She never saw doors in the community before. She looks around for a sign or some note that tells her what these doors are all about. Finding nothing at all, she decides to open the left door. Of course curiosity gets to her! She…
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Where does Tiffi end up?
Tiffi lands in a Native American community. She looks around and sees this one person approaching her. “Hi, my name is Esadowa and I live here in this community with my family.” Tiffi looks around and has no clue where she landed. She asks Esadowa what year it is, and he tells her that it’s 1924. How did Tiffi end up in…
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Tiffi learns all about the Arctic and Subarctic culture areas
‘The Arctic culture area, a cold, flat, treeless region (actually a frozen desert) near the Arctic Circle in present-day Alaska, Canada and Greenland, was home to the Inuit and the Aleut. Both groups spoke, and continue to speak, dialects descended from what scholars call the Eskimo-Aleut language family. Because it is…
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The Northeast and Southeast culture areas
‘The Northeast culture area, one of the first to have sustained contact with Europeans, stretched from present-day Canada’s Atlantic coast to North Carolina and inland to the Mississippi River valley. Its inhabitants were members of two main groups: Iroquoian speakers (these included the Cayuga, Oneida, Erie, Onondaga,…
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The Plains and Southwest culture areas
‘The Plains culture area comprises the vast prairie region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, from present-day Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Before the arrival of European traders and explorers, its inhabitants—speakers of Siouan, Algonquian, Caddoan, Uto-Aztecan and Athabaskan languages—were relatively…
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The Great Basin and California culture areas
‘The Great Basin culture area, an expansive bowl formed by the Rocky Mountains to the east, the Sierra Nevadas to the west, the Columbia Plateau to the north, and the Colorado Plateau to the south, was a barren wasteland of deserts, salt flats and brackish lakes. Its people, most of whom spoke Shoshonean or Uto-Aztecan…
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The Northwest Coast and Plateau culture areas
‘The Northwest Coast culture area, along the Pacific coast from British Columbia to the top of Northern California, has a mild climate and an abundance of natural resources. In particular, the ocean and the region’s rivers provided almost everything its people needed salmon, especially, but also whales, sea otters, seals…
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How Native Americans Struggled to Survive on the Trail of Tears
“Are you ok Tiffi?” asks Esadowa. Tiffi nods her head in agreement that she’s ok. She is actually in awe learning all this history. She definitely will have to share all this history with her friends. “Now I’d like to get back to the Trail of Tears that I mentioned earlier,” Esadowa says. ‘In the early 1800s, the sovereign…
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History of Trail of tears continued ….
As Esadowa shares the history with Tiffi, she isn’t aware that they are now in Esadowa’s community. He introduces Tiffi to his family and tells her that he’s going to get her something for them to eat. As the two of them are eating, Esadowa continues to share more about the Trail of tears. ‘Extreme Weather Leads to Deaths…
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Welcome to the future!
What ever happened to Chewy? He opened the door and went inside …………………. Look at where he lands! Some wizard looking guy approaches him. “Welcome to the future! My name is Sagan,” says Sagan. “I’ve been called a precognizant. I can predict future events or developments.” ‘Did you ever have a dream that came true, blow by…
