 Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska
MATERIALS LIST Your classroom set of this unit should consist of the following
items. Please check before and after using it to see that you have all the necessary
ingredients. 1 Teacher's Guide 30 The Tlingit World 15 Kahtahah (one for every two students)
30
Kiksadi Dog Salmon Legend
1 How To Treat Salmon (classroom sets are available on
request) 1 Lingit Aanee 1 In a Tlingit Winter House 1 How to Build a Canoe 1 Halibut Fishing
4 sets Tools
of the Trade Description Sheets (13 total)
5 Tlingit Trade Game Rules cards 1 set Community Profiles (one for each of the
following communities: Craig, Ketchikan, Juneau, Metlakatla, Petersburg,
Sitka, Wrangell) 5 sets
Moiety Cards
Harvest Time at the Beach poster
Living By the Seasons poster
Environments of Lingit Aanee poster
Tools of the Trade poster and Legend
1 Tongass National Forest Map
1 set Tlingit Trade Game (each school has one set, which consists
of 5 game boards and cards. The set is in your school library.) In addition, the following materials are to be used at various
times in the unit.
Native Peoples
and Languages of Alaska map (each
school should have one for each fourth grade class); published by Alaska Native
Language Center, University of Alaska; Fairbanks, about $6.00
UN 639: Northwest Coast Study Prints (many
schools own their own sets - check
Appendix G; otherwise, to be ordered from AVS Center)
Southeast: Alaska's Panhandle (Alaska
Geographic Vol. 5, #2, 1978); Alaska Northwest Publishing Company.
Northwest Coast Indian Art (Alaska State
Museum); a mini-kit with photographs and explanations. There is at least one
in each school library.
The Whale House of the Chilkat (Alaska State
Museum), a mini-kit with photographs, descriptions, and clan stories. Each
school library has at least one kit.
A NOTE ON AUDIO-VISUALS
AND THIS UNIT
A large number of 4th grade classes will be undertaking
this study of Tlingit culture at any given time. Because of the limited resources
in our district's Audio-Visual Center, many of those classes will not be able
to see appropriate films, tapes, or multi-media units to complement
the written materials and classroom activities. This guide has, therefore,
been designed to be used without any outside resources.
If you would like to use audio-visuals during the course of this
unit, you should order all that you want NOW, at the beginning of the unit.
They will certainly add to the experience you and the students are about to
begin.
GOALS
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To introduce students to the Tlingit culture.
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To elaborate on and explore the concept
of family, including a non-Western family structure.
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To illustrate the relationship between
a group's family structure and other aspects of life (such as subsistence,
trade, art, and technology).
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To provide students with an opportunity
to view their own lifestyles in relation to their family structures.
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To introduce students to material culture
and its relationship with the rest of culture through a trip to the Anchorage
Museum of History and Art.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MATERIALS LIST & GOALS
SECTION 1: Tlingit
Country
SECTION 2:
Clans
SECTION 3: Summer
Camp
SECTION 4: Tlingit
Economy: Surplus
SECTION 5: Wrap
Up
APPENDIX A: Brief
Description of Tlingit Culture
APPENDIX B: A Sample
Winter Clan House
APPENDIX C: Northwest
Coast Materials in ASD AVS Center
APPENDIX D: Juvenile
Literature on Northwest Coast Cultures
APPENDIX E: Art
Bibliography
APPENDIX F: Northwest
Coast Cultures Bibliography
APPENDIX G: Schools
Which Own Northwest Coast Study Prints
APPENDIX H: Raven
Stories (reprints)
APPENDIX I: Recorded
Versions of Clan Crest Stories
APPENDIX J: Some
Northwest Coast Art Activities
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