Shoshone
or
Arapaho
Indians

Grade 4
Ms. Germaine
McKinley School

 Arapaho War Shield
Arapaho War Shield		 Elementary School Pathfinders
Lakewood City Schools
Lakewood Public Library
Web Sites:
Western Shoshone - description of life in the four seasons.

The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes - information about Indians living on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho.

The Shoshone Indians from the PBS story of Lewis and Clark.

Native People of Death Valley - about the Shoshone, from the Sierra Club.

Sacagawea - Guide to the West

Wind River Reservation Community Environmental Profile for the Eastern Shoshone Tribe and the Northern Arapaho Tribe

The Arapaho and the Shoshone Business Councils - learn about the modern day Northern Arapaho and the Shoshone on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming.

The Story of the Arapaho People - stories told by an elder tribesman.

Arapaho Stories - 4 stories.
Sacajawea, known as the Shoshone Bird Woman, directs the Lewis and Clark expedition over the perilous passes to safety, succeeding in persuading the rest of her tribe to overcome suspicion and hostility.

Arapaho White Crow		 Research Databases: (Outside the Library OPLIN databases require an Ohio public library card for access).
Books and Videos:
  • The Arapaho by Loretta Fowler. MAIN JUVENILE j973.0497 374.
  • The Arapaho Indians by Vicki Haluska. MAIN JUVENILE j973.04973 454.
  • The Shoshoni by Alden R. Carter. MAIN JUVENILE j979.00497 206.
  • Sacagawea by Judith St. George. MAIN JUVENILE jBIO Sacagawea.
  • Sage smoke; tales of the Shoshoni-Bannock Indians by Eleanor B. Heady. MAIN JUVENILE j398.2 458
  • Old bag of bones: a coyote tale retold by Janet Stevens. MAIN JUVENILE j398.2452974442 Stevens
  • Wolf nation [videorecording], a documentary film by The Northern Arapaho Wolf Society and Victoria Costello Productions. (The wolf's controversial and historic return to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, after nearly a century, and the first performance of the Arapahos' sacred Wolf Dance in over fifty years. The dance also marks the passing of tribal leadership and traditions from Medicine Man Mark Soldier Wolf to his son, Anon.) MAIN AV VIDEO 599.7442.
 Arapaho Bird Chief