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=The Bison= Here is a list of resources that your classmates have compiled for you about the First Nations People and The Bison

[|Royal Saskatchewan Museum: Bison Hide Tipi] [|How to tan a bison hide] [|Taning and use of the bison]his guy butchered and tans a hide in his apartment! Pretty interesting! Want to make Pemmican? Click [|here] [|Wikipedia Bison] [|Different Uses of Bison] [|What Bison Parts Are Used For] [|Buffalo/Bison] [|Fun Facts and Information About Bison] [|buffalo] [|Buffalo Jump] M[|ethods for the hunt] [|First Nations and the Bison] Note: this website is the same as __Taning and use of the bison__ [|Hunting bison]
 * [|More Than Meat]
 * [|Bison Hide Tanning Part 1]
 * [|Bison Hide Tanning Part 2]
 * [|Then he made soap from the fat]

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 * Bison Writing Assignment

1. Use bison resources listed above OR find other on line. If you find others that you think are good, post them to the wiki. 2. Choose a focus question: What hunting methods were used for the bison and how did they work? How did the First Nations people use the bison? How was hunting bison different after the arrival of the Europeans? 3. Research your question. 4. Use the information that you find to write a descriptive account of a bison hunt. Write it from a hunter's point of view, a villager preparing the bison after the hunt or the bison itself. Set it either before or after European contact. ||

Plants Indiginous to the Prairies Here is a list of links to sites compiled by your classmates that will be useful to identify plants that were indiginous to the prairies prior to European contact as well as the many uses that First Nations People had for them.

[|Native Saskatchewan Plants and Herbs Jenny] [|Medicinal Plant Traditional Uses KAYLA, KIM, cody] [|What the ecosystem would be if the Euros didn't come!] [|Native Plant Database Nicole, George, Brandon] [|Medical uses for Plants-Sarah, Kaitlin] [|Plant Society of SK] August and Zach [|First Nation uses for prairie plants-Kaitlin] [|Ways First Nations Helped the European Settlers-Food]

Plant Writing Assignment

1. Use plant resources listed above OR find others on line. If you find others that you think are good, post them to the wiki. 2. Choose a focus question: What plants were used by the First Nations people and what were they used for? How did they harvest, gather, cook or preserve the plants for use? How were the plants native to the prairies used by the first Europeans? 3. Research your question. 4. Use the information that you find to write a descriptive account of an event or events in the life of a member of a First Nation. A) Write it from a Medicine Person’s point of view, B) a villager preparing the food for their people, C) a child helping his/her mother with the gathering or preparing or D) helping a medicine man/healer or E) from the point of view of someone who used plant materials to make tools or instruments for use within the village. F) You could also write the descriptive account from the point of view of an early settler on the prairies. Set it either before or after European contact. 5. Include a minimum of 10 plants within your creative writing. Describe fully how you used the plant in your story. 6. Hand in an outline with the premise and the events laid out. 7. Final copy should include diagrams.

[|Farming Pre and Po]st European Contact
Here is a list of links to help you with your upcoming assignments. http://www.gov.sk.ca/Default.aspx?DN=5e78fa0e-4a3f-41f6-b93e-e01d7b5f607f http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/farming-and-the-environment/2 http://www.fnmr.gov.sk.ca/lands/tle/history/1 olc.spsd.sk.ca/De/**saskatchewan**100/.../WDM/SettlerRelations.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Saskatchewan http://www.saskrce.ca/farming-and-local-food-production?page=23 []