Feature video: Woodland life before colonial times
A hugely interesting history and cultural video with many uses.
Note: this kind of video can be used in many situations. Make a list of 10 things you can use it for, for example, 1 materials, 2 forces (bending saplings to make a frame), 3 grinding corn, 4 What native peoples ate in past centuries 5... the list is endless. Movies are very versatile over wide age ranges. Have 5 or more questions prepared so that videos are not passive watching.
Playing time: 5 min
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Hopewell Mounds, Ohio
Prehistoric mound city remains that show how sophisticated many cultures were.
Playing time: 4 min
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Cahokia Mounds, Illinois
Prehistoric mound city remains that show how sophisticated many cultures were.
Playing time: 4 min
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Mesa Verde, Colorado
Prehistoric pueblo settlement remains that show how many cultures made huge efforts to fit in with their landscape.
Playing time: 4 min
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Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
A look at an important Native American settlement, now abandoned. It belonged to Native Americans in what is now Chinle, Arizona.
Playing time: 10 min
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Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
Show the Taos Pueblo, a village of Native Americans on the edge of the Rio Grande valley in the mountains of New Mexico. The buildings are made of adobe, a kind of mud brick, in a traditional style.
Playing time: 6 min
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St Anthony Falls, Mississippi River
Shows St Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and what they were like at the time that it was home only to Native Amerians as well as what happened later.
Playing time: 5 min
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Native American pottery
Shows replica SW American pots.
Playing time: 2 min
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Thomas Edison historic video.
Early footage from Edison of Native Americans.
Care, this may not seem appropriate to modern eyes, but does reflect how Native Americans were treated in the past.
Playing time: 1 min
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The history of America
An introductory video about the history of America, from Native American peoples to the present day, through early settlers, colonial times, revolution and independence, Civil War, the Gilded Age, Immigration, the Great Depression, and more. Designed to support our 'History of America' book.
Playing time: 15 min
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