Native American Paper Topics

Native American Paper Topics

Directions: Select one of the topics listed below for your Native American paper. If you have a particular interest not on this list speak with me and we can work out an exception.

___ Life in the Arctic

___ Life in the Sub-arctic

___ Life on the Plateau

___ Life in the Great Basin

___ Life in California

___ Life in the South West

___ Life on the Plains

___ Life in the Southeast

___ Animal Traps and Hunting Techniques

___ Herbal Medicines

___ Pumo Indian Basketry

___ Chumash Sacred Pictographs

___ The Thunderbirds

___ Kwakiutl Masks

___ Farming and Agriculture

___ Hopi Pottery

___ Kachina

___ Rituals of the Kiva

___ The Hopewell Mounds

___ Life on the Great Plains

___ Indian Confederacies

___ Dreamcatchers

___ Tlingit Homes and Totem Poles

___ The Fur Trade

___ Art of the Northwest

___ Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

___ Sarah Winnemucca, Northern Paiutte

Leader

___ Ishi, The Last Wild Indian in North

America

___ Sacajawea, Shoshone Woman

___ Geronimo, Apache Leader

___ Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Leader

___ Pocahontas, Powhatan’s daughter

___ The American Indian Movement

___ Indian Casinos

___ Sequoyah, Cherokee Leader

___ The Development of the Seminole

___ Horses in Plains culture

___ Domestic Dogs

___ A Comparison of Native Dwellings

___ The Horse in Plains Indian Culture

___ Dog Soldiers of the Great Plains

___ A Comparison of Native Boats and

Kayaks

___ The Potlatch Ceremony

___ The Green Corn Ceremony

___ Navaho Sand Paintings

___ The Buffalo Hunt and the uses of the

Buffalo

___ Gender Relations among Native People

___ The Use of Peyote and other

Psychotropic Substances by

Native People

___ The Effect of Alcohol on Native People

___ Counting Coup and the Native

American Concept of Warfare

___ Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears

___ The Sun Dance and Ghost Dance

Ceremonies

___ The Navaho Code Talkers

___ Native People in the Twenty-first

Century

___ Indian Sports (Not Lacrosse)

___ The 1973 Indian standoff at Wounded

Knee

___ The Pursuit of Sovereignty

___ The Hoop Dance

___ Native American Bundles and other

Religious Objects

___ Traditional and Contemporary Native

American Music

___ Clothing and ornamentation

___ Mascots and Native American Protest

___ Native American Legends and Story

Telling