Holidays+or+Traditions

 1. My topic is about Native American's Holidays and Traditions.

2. What I already know about this topic: Who?- The Tribe or Tribes What?- Bonfires or other Trbie gatherings Where- Anywhere where the Native Americans lived or around them When- To celebrate certain events How?- They would gather around until everyone was in a certain area and then they would wait for it to begin. This impacted the class topic because I got to learn more about how the Native's would celebrate their important events and how they worshiped their ways.

3. What I want to know: -Who had to start off the worships or events? -What did the Native Americans celebrate and did they have many Holidays? -Where would these events take place? - How would they prepare for the celebrations? - This impacted the Native Americans because it was a way of how they could express their creativity or their ways of life.

4. My reasearch strategy: Who- I can ask my Social Studies teacher or other elders that might know a lot about this topic. When- In any of my free-time or I can dedicate certain hours for just my research. Where- At school, home, friend's house, family's house, or any libraries. How- I can use my notes, books, wed, or I can see if anyone might know anything to help me with my topic.

Draft Not all Native American Tribes celebrated the same things or the same ways, but even though that was different, they still respected their ways and followed their ancestors traditions through out their lives.

Not all of the Native American Tribes would celebrate the same events or traditions. They mainly all had different ideas, events, point of views, and traditions from their past generations and ancestors. (Celebrations for Tribes) Native American Tribes were different from their beliefs, traditions, religions, their point of views on life. That's just like how families are with their own lives. "The Natuve Americans wouldn't only make sure they prepare their foods well, they would also make sure their decorations and clothes were enough to add up to the theme of the tradition or event they are celebrating." ( Foods for events ) They payed much respect for their traditions just as we do. " Also whenever they prepared, they would decorate their clothes and bodies with paint, or they would mush up barries to use as paint. They did this to follow their ancestors." (Culture) Native Americans would follow what their earlier generations did before them. That can be compared to how we use our learning ideas, war plans, living styles, and much more of how we follow from our own earlier generations. Bon Fires symbolized celebrations for the Native Americans when they would have events and other certain gatherings. (Ciment, James. "Encyclopedia of the North American Indian." Encyclopedia of the North American Indian. 1996. Print.) When the Native Americans would use Bon Fires in their celebrations, it's almost compared to how people now a days use Pinatas at birthday parties. Many times when the Indians had events, they also had their own ways of making their food. The reason why they prepared their food more respectfully for their events is because they would want to be humble and make everything as best as possible. ("Understanding Native American Traditions." ) To this day we still prepare our celebrations just as the Native Americans tried to stay humble to their ancestors.

==The Native Americans had their own religious dances and songs they would play when they celebrated events or traditions. ("Native American Indian Legends." []-) The Native Americans didn't have just plain boring events. They would spice up their events with various ways of ideas and talents to enetertain their gatherings. A lot of times when the Native Americans would decorate for their events, they would use the supplies they got from nature. Like feathers, wood, fur, leaves, berries...The Natives didn't live like regular people. Thet didn't have stores to go get their supplies at, they used their surroundings. ==

==A lot of times they would tell old stories passed down from their generations. The stories would be based on life lessons, their versions of fairytales, and stories to frighten the children at times. ("Native American Indian Legends." http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TheOrphanBoyAndTheElkDog-Blackfoot.html. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. [|http://www.firstpeople.us].) They would tell stories as entertainment just like on how we watch T.V. == ==The Native Americans compared to us today have many different ways than us. But even though that was a long time ago, we all have many similarities. So at that, we aren't all that different from them. ==

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