Analysis of Photographs:

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Northern Ponca Earth Lodge Photo 1

Northern Ponca Earth Lodge Photo 2

Northern Ponca Earth Lodge Ceiling

Northern Ponca Earth Lodge Walkway

Northern Ponca Earth Lodge Interior

Earth Lodge Photo Analysis:

Using the National Archives Photo Analysis Worksheet (click to open) create your own assessment for the five Northern Ponca Earth Lodge photos displayed above.

You will need to use a separate worksheet for each photo or reset and edit the existing worksheet and save or print each separate worksheet.

Image of Chalk Bluffs along the Niobrara

Chalk Bluffs Photo Analysis:

Using the National Archives Photo Analysis Worksheet (click to open) create your own assessment for the single Chalk Bluffs photo displayed above.

You may save or print the worksheet when finished.

Missouri and Niobrara River Photo Analysis:

Using the National Archives Photo Analysis Worksheet (click to open) create your own assessment for the photos of the Missouri and Missouri/Niobrara river convergence displayed above.

You will need to use a separate worksheet for each photo or reset and edit the existing worksheet and save or print each separate worksheet.

Vocabulary:

Culture

The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social groups.

Great Plains

A vast area of plains east of the Rocky Mountains in North America that extend from the valleys of the Mackenzie River in Canada to southern Texas.

Earth Lodge

A dwelling constructed of earth or sod, often supported on a wooden frame, and often placed partially below the surface of the ground.

Semi-nomadic

A member of a people living usually in portable or temporary dwellings and practicing seasonal migration but having a base camp at which some crops are cultivated.

Resources:

Plains Tribes (map)

Nomadic Tribal Movement (map)

1700 North America Tribal People (map)

Standing Bear Territory (map)

Missouri Migrations (map)

Photo of the chalk bluffs (photo)

Ponca earth lodge (photos) Photo1, Photo2, Photo3, Photo4, Photo5

National Archives Photo Analysis worksheet

National Archives Map Analysis worksheet

Habits of Mind Matrix

Teacher Resources:

For more information, read “Ponca Tribe” (Howard) p. 30-39

Online & Classroom Activities:

Analysis of Photographs

Map Concepts

Vocabulary and Connections

Extension Activities:

1. Students can make a culture gram of the Ponca people throughout the movie. (Ideas such as food, shelter, family, language, religion, music, arts, celebrations and/or beliefs).

Attached (see above) are pictures of earth lodge, chalk bluffs, tipi, etc.

2. Students can interview someone in their class or someone from a different generation within their family about the meaning of “home.”
3. They can present a “compare and contrast” chart demonstrating the similarities and differences between two or more cultural groups in the given categories.
4. Students can turn their chart into a short essay.