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One - three Students will be able to learn about the women's
role in regards to the tipi preparation, care, and setup.
Students will be able to list 4 to 5 uses of the buffalo. video
clip, brown paper bags, markers/pencil crayons Have students
watch the video clip. What do the students think First Nations
peoples used before there was ever such thing as canvas? You can
do this orally, or write ideas on the overhead/chalkboard.
Explain that First Nations people on the plains would use
buffalo hides/robes to cover their tipi. In the Saulteaux way,
women took care of the tipi. As you will learn in the video,
Glen shares that women owned the tipi so that the children would
always have a place to live. Discuss how the women prepared the
hides, from tanning them to sewing them. Have them imagine how
the women needed to have physical strength to sew and tan hides
as well as to raise the tipi. The buffalo provided resources for
the First Nations way of li