CCSD No. 2 students learn about Plains Indian and early pioneer toys in Elk Mountain
Hanna Elementary students listen to one of the mentors about pioneer and native American culture on Sept. 5
Kay Grant has been educating students on life of the early pioneers and the Plains Indians culture for 13 years. She does this in a variety of ways, from using actual stone instruments used in day-to-day life to games and toys the children played with. She has a buffalo hide that has been on display for its tenth year and she has students scrape off a little hair with stone tools. About half the hair is left, which is amazing given how many years she has displayed it and allowed the scraping.
She has a large tipi students can enter and see how the Plains Indians lived inside. There are differe...
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