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Canku
Ota
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(Many
Paths)
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An
Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
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January 2016 -
Volume 14 Number 1
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Favorite
Web Sites
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collected
by Paul and Vicki
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Massachusett
Language
The Massachusett language is
an Algonquian language of the Algic language family, formerly
spoken by several tribes inhabiting coastal regions of Massachusetts,
including Cape Cod and the Islands. It was also commonly referred
to as the Natick, Wômpanâak (Wampanoag), Pokanoket,
or Indian language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett_language |
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Honoring
Nations
Celebrating, documenting, and disseminating the stories of the
outstanding programs in self-governance that are daily emerging
from the Native nations, Honoring Nations highlights tribal
government successes. It helps expand the capacities of Native
nation builders by enabling them to learn from each others’
successes. The high public visibility and news coverage of Honoring
Nations also permit non-Native policymakers, the media, and
the general public to see what Native nations are actually doing
in the drive for self-determination. Established in 1998, Honoring
Nations’ experiences are the foundation for the teaching,
advising, and policy analysis from the partnership between the
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development (Harvard
Project) and the Native Nations Institute at the University
of Arizona.
http://hpaied.org/honoring-nations |
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Be
an UPstander and StandUP to Cyber-Bullies
In 2015 Lakota Children's Enrichment launched a campaign to
educate people about ways to minimize and report cyberbullying.
Check our our UpStander’s guide to cyber-bullying and be
an Upstander, not a Bystander.
http://lakotachildren.org/take-action/up-standers-guide-to-cyber-bullying/ |
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Lakota
Children’s Enrichment
We empower Lakota youth and amplify their voices by providing
opportunities in the arts, education, sports, leadership and
mentorship. Lakota Children’s Enrichment’s programs
are tailored to meet specific needs of schools and community
partners, and incorporate input from LCE’s Youth Advisory
Board. LCE also provides education about the history and obstacles
facing American Indian reservations today.
http://lakotachildren.org |
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The
Haida Language
Haida, or Xaat Kíl, is the ancestral language of the
Haida people. The traditional home of the Haidas is Haida Gwaii
(also known as Queen Charlotte Island) off the west coast of
what is now British Columbia, Canada. A few hundred years ago,
some Haidas moved north to what is now Prince of Wales Island
in southeast Alaska. Today, the four main Haida villages are
Masset and Skidegate, both on Haida Gwaii, and Hydaburg and
Kasaan, on Prince of Wales. There are also quite a few Haidas
living in larger towns and cities up and down the Pacific Coast,
from Juneau to Ketchikan to Vancouver to Seattle to San Francisco.
http://www.haidalanguage.org |
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Cuban
Missile Crisis
The
Cuban Missile Crisis (October 14, 1962 – October 28,
1962) was a two-week escalation between the United States
and the Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear missiles deployed
in Cuba, just 90 miles from Florida. The crisis nearly escalated
into a nuclear war, but successful negotiations between President
John Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev brought
the confrontation to an end. The Cuban Missile Crisis is also
known as the October Crisis, The Missile Scare, and the Caribbean
Crisis.
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Ducksters:
Cuban Missile Crisis
"Prior to the crisis the United States had attempted to
overthrow Fidel Castro and the current government of Cuba with
the Bay of Pigs invasion. The invasion failed, but it served
as a warning to Fidel Castro." Learn all about the Missile
Crisis with this one-page summary, and then explore more Cold
War topics (links at the bottom of the page) including the Arms
Race, Communism, and the Space Race.
http://www.ducksters.com/history/cold_war/cuban_missile_crisis.php
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History:
Cuban Missile Crisis
Visit History.com for a musical history of the Cuban missile
crisis, sung and illustrated by Jeffrey Lewis. While here, be
sure to peruse the featured article and photo galleries. "In
a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy (1917-1963)
notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained
his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made
it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary
to neutralize this perceived threat to national security."
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis
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JFK
Library: Cuban Missile Crisis
"No one was sure how Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev would
respond to the naval blockade and U.S. demands." This one-page
report includes photos and an audio clip from Kennedy's radio
and television remarks. But the best content is found at World
on the Brink, a special feature which steps you through the
crisis one day at a time. You'll find a link to it at the end
of the page.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Cuban-Missile-Crisis.aspx
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Layers
of Learning: Cuban Missile Crisis for Kids
Learn history by reenacting it! Print out this Cuban Missile
Crisis role playing script, and assign six parts: President
Kennedy, CIA advisor, Secretary of Defense, Latin America expert,
advisor, and military advisor. Set the stage with a discussion
of the Cold War. "Basically the Cold War was a war of ideas
between the United States with a freedom loving capitalist society
and the USSR with a totalitarian centrally planned communist
society. Both sides wanted to prove that their ideology was
best."
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Cuban-Missile-Crisis.aspx
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Nuclear
Files: Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline
Starting in 1959, when President Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba,
and Fidel Castro proclaimed victory after a six-year revolution,
this timeline takes us step-by-step through the Cuban Missile
Crisis of 1962. The last entry is dated June 30,1963, when
the US and the Soviet Union opened a direct hot-line between
their leaders. "The Hot Line has been tested every hour
since 1963, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union has not
altered this procedure."
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis/timeline.htm
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Christmas
Crafts
“Tis
the season to be jolly.” And Christmas crafts certainly
add to the season’s jolliness, don’t you think?
This week’s website picks showcase Christmas craft projects
for kids of all ages.
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All
Free Crafts: Christmas
With more than 150 original Christmas crafts, All Free Crafts
is quite a find. Organized into six categories (such as Santa
Crafts, Light Bulb Crafts and Easy Tree Trims) many of the projects
focus on using recycled household items, and all have photos
of the finished project. Other featured holidays include Valentines
Day, Mother's Day, and Halloween.
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/christmas/christmas-crafts/
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All
Kids Network: Kids Christmas Crafts
"All of these Christmas themed crafts were made in our
own home so we know that they are fun and child-friendly. So
light a fire in the fireplace, make some hot cocoa, put on your
favorite holiday movie and gather the family around the table
to make some of our great kids Christmas crafts!" This
Christmas page has a couple dozen projects, with links to printable
worksheets, coloring pages, and mazes in the right-hand column.
http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/christmas/ |
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Busy
Bee Kids Crafts: Christmas Crafts for Kids
"This Christmas why not create a Posable Reindeer, make
your own homemade Christmas Ornaments with our Salt Dough Recipe,
or design your own Winter Window card for a special homemade
teacher gift?" Visit Busy Bee Kids Crafts for three dozen
illustrated craft projects (for ages two and up) and last, but
not least, a whole slew of Christmas printables including coloring
pages, word search puzzles and dot-to-dots.
http://www.busybeekidscrafts.com/Christmas-Crafts-for-Kids.html
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Enchanted
Learning: Christmas K-3 Theme Page
"These crafts projects use materials found around the house,
like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons,
paint, glue, etc. See the page about color mixing to see how
to combine paint to make all the colors of the rainbow."
Enchanted Learning hits the mark with oodles of Christmas crafts
and printable activity pages (which are my personal favorites.)
Those looking for Hanukkah projects, will find them here.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/christmas/ |
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Pinterest:
Sassy Sites: Christmas Crafts for Kids
This beautiful Pinterest board was created by user Sassy Sites.
If you are new to Pinterest, you do not need an account to
view any of the boards, but just browsing this collection
may be enough to get you hooked. To visit the actual craft
sites, click on any of the pins (the photos) to open the image
in a new window, then click one more time to visit the originating
site. In addition to this board, you can search for more "Christmas
crafts for kids" using the search function in the upper
left-hand corner.
https://www.pinterest.com/sassysites/christmas-crafts-for-kids/
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Clouds
A
cloud is a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating
above the earth. In 1802, amateur meteorologist Luke Howard
named three principal categories of clouds: cumulus, stratus,
and cirrus. These categories became the basis of today’s
cloud classification system, which also includes a fourth
component: nimbus.
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Ducksters:
Earth Science for Kids: Clouds
"Most clouds form as warm
air rises in the atmosphere and cools down. All air contains
some water vapor and warm air can hold more water vapor than
cold air. As warm air cools the water vapor turns into tiny
droplets of water or ice. As more and more air cools down, more
droplets form and they eventually become a cloud." Visit
for a one-page introduction to clouds, with links to additional
weather topics, including atmosphere, climate, weather forecasting
and seasons.
http://www.ducksters.com/science/earth_science/clouds.php
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NASA:
Kids Cloud Identification Guide
Educator Paula McKean created
this printable guide to cloud classification and identification.
Using both the altitude system (how high is the cloud?) and
the characteristic system (what does it look like?), this handy
e-book includes checklists for verifying your classification.
The cumulus checklist begins, " Is it a sunny day? Is the
cloud low in the sky? Does it look like a big puffy cotton ball?"
http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/pdf/Kiwi_Kids_Cloud_Guide.pdf
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UCAR Center for Science Education: Clouds
How do clouds form? What are the cloud
types? These are just a few of the questions answered at this
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) site
for teachers and students. Play a matching game, browse a cloud
gallery, or peruse the resources on thunderstorms, tornadoes,
hurricanes and winter storms.
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Weather
Wiz Kids: Clouds
"Why are clouds white?
Since light travels as waves of different lengths, each color
has its very own unique wavelength. Clouds are white because
their water droplets or ice crystals are large enough to scatter
the light of the seven wavelengths (red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo, and violet), which combine to produce white light."
Scroll to the bottom of this long page for lesson plans, cloud
experiments, and science fair project ideas.
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-clouds.htm |
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Wired:
Weird Clouds Look Even Better from Space
"Cloud-watching from Earth
can be endlessly entertaining, but some of the most amazing
cloud patterns can only be properly appreciated from space.
Satellites can take in thousands of miles of the Earth's surface
in one shot, revealing complicated and intriguing cloud patterns
we could never see from below. " Enjoy a gallery of weird
clouds seen from space, photographed by NASA satellites.
http://www.wired.com/2010/05/gallery-clouds/
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Gingerbread
Houses
Gingerbread is a baked treat that dates back to the Middle
Ages. It is thought to have first appeared in the U.S. in
the nineteenth century, when the Swiss monks of St. Meinrad
Archabbey in Indiana baked gingerbread on holidays, and gave
it to the sick. Over the years, baking gingerbread cookies
and building gingerbread houses developed into a popular American
Christmas tradition.
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Celebrating
Christmas: Gingerbread House 101
"From very simple designs for busy moms and dads to challenging
art projects for those artists among us, we've got it all.…
Let the decorating begin!!!" Celebrating Christmas offers
a potpourri of gingerbread house advice, from how to plan a
gingerbread party to recipes for gingerbread tree ornaments.
Highlights are six gingerbread house blueprints (including a
log cabin, chapel, country store and Victorian) although you
will need to enlarge the patterns before using them.
http://www.celebrating-christmas.com/recipes/gingerbread-house.shtml |
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Highlights
Kids: Design Your Own Gingerbread House
To add a little computer fun to today's topic, this pick is
an online game. Decorate your virtual gingerbread house with
the usual Candy and Icing, or go crazy with silly Food and Stuff
such as a whole fish, a tennis ball, or alphabet blocks to spell
out your name. Move items onto the house by clicking once to
pick up, then again to release onto your house. Controls include
Rotate, Resize, Flip, Start Over, and Print (so you can hang
your finished creation on the refrigerator door.)
http://www.highlightskids.com/flash/gingerbread-house/ |
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King
Arthur Flour: Building a Gingerbread House
This fourteen-page PDF from King Arthur Flour offers the most
detailed gingerbread house building instructions I found online.
It includes a printable pattern, oodles of photos, and tips
you won't find anywhere else. For example, to create multi-colored
stained glass panels, try melting hard candies in the oven.
Or to create the look of window panes, paint diagonal muntins
on gelatin sheets. And to help your gingerbread people keep
their balance, attach mini-marshmallow kick-stands to their
backs.
https://www.kingarthurflour.com/baking/documents/gingerbread.pdf |
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Pinterest:
Gingerbread Houses
Searching for gingerbread inspiration? Look no further than
this Pinterest search. You can refine the search by adding keywords
to the search function box in the upper left-hand corner, or
jumping directly to some of the featured boards and pinners
(which you'll also find in the upper left-hand corner.) If you
are new to Pinterest, just remember that you need to click twice
on an image to actually visit the associated web page.
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=gingerbread+houses |
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Wilton:
Gingerbread House Fun
Wow! Wilton (the baking supply company) brings us the mother
lode of gingerbread ideas. Visit for 181 gingerbread houses,
eleven answers to frequently asked questions, four gingerbread
recipes, and countless decorating ideas. "If you plan
to keep your decorated house or cookie kit longer than the
current season, consider assembling with a hot glue gun, then
cover the dried glue with icing."
http://www.wilton.com/decorating-ideas/by-theme/gingerbread/
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