Join Fall in the Field instructors, Whitney Anderson, Nora Seymour, and Monique Streit to learn about plants that are important to the Takelma, Shasta, and Athapaskan Tribes.
Grades: 6-8
NGSSMS-LS2-1 Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
Lesson taught, recorded, and prepared by Whitney Anderson, Nora Seymour, and Monique Streit. Music by Nora Seymour.
Supplemental lesson materials:
Cultural information gathered from:
Siletz History
Siletz Curriculum
Grand Ronde History
Grand Ronde Curriculum
Rogue River Tribal History
Anderson, M. K. (2005). Tending the wild : Native American knowledge and the management of California’s natural resources.
Now, watch this short clip from videos co-produced by KCETLink Media Group and the Autry Museum:
https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/we-are-here-native-peoples-on-gathering-and-tending-their-landscape
Next, watch the first segment about acorns in this video co-produced by KCETLink Media Group and the Autry Museum:
https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/episodes/decolonizing-the-diet