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New this Week - This week we begin to take time to focus on the world-renowned rock art of the Chumash and Coso area Indians - and the little known evidence of sand paintings by the Gabrielinos as recorded by the first Spanish visitors and other rock art sites in remote backcountry areas of California learn more at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/history/rockart/ . And enjoy the growing rock art gallery images and video linked to from the bottom of that page.
ROCK ART DAYS - live chat with American Rock Art Research Assoc. expert Bill Hyder from UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday the 15th, 9-11am. Then FAMILY ROCK ART NIGHT on the 16th 7-8pm. Come learn about this amazing form of prehistoric literature !!
Meet-the-Author with provocative thinker Harley Hahn, author of numerous million best-seller Internet books. Harley will be with us for the Tuesday November 14th Teacher's Chat, 7-8pm.
Welcome to the Modoc Plateau and the NEW section on the Modoc Indian War
This week is the time to study-up on the Modoc Indian War. Classes who complete the challenge listed at the bottom of this illustrated online section at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/modoc/ are then invited to post their responses in the chat room this Friday the 17th. Please RSVP if your students will be preparing and posting this unit on Friday - send to camp@rain.org. This was the most controversial white-Indian confrontation in California, and became the one that spurred the white public to begin demanding more fair and honest treatment of the First Americans nationwide it outraged the military, politicians, writers, and every day people in its unfairness and basis on land theft.
Science - Paleontology in the Cascades - get out your Ammonite fossil
Let's do DINOSAURS and FOSSILS. Learn about one of the first dinosaurs ever found in California by taking your students to http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/science/paleontology/ to learn about Paleonotology and then make sure they meet the dinosaur Camp's Trail guide Dick Hilton found when out looking for seashell fossils http://www.rain.org/campinternet/backcountry/science/paleontology/dinosaurs.html . Your Supply Kit includes a REAL ancient Ammonite fossil that is very similar to those found in California an that date back up to 400 million years ago .. amazing! Most of California was then underwater, and the southern part of the Cascades were actually an ISLAND rising above the low seas.
Ishi, Last of His Tribe
This poignant story is still relevant to our studies and we have constructed a good Ishi Internet dig to learn more about his life. You can ask for a special Ishi Dig session if your class is ready to explore his life. The Camp has made a condensed version of the famous Ishi story available at http://www.rain.org/campinternet/channelhistory/ishi/ .
This is one of the most famous stories of a Native Californian's life and we included a copy of Theodora Kroeber's historical fiction, Ishi, Last of His Tribe if you would like to read selected sections to your students direct from the original source. Ishi lived to the North of the Maidu on the slopes of Mt. Lassen.
Coming Up
Camp Alumni special projects are now featured for November in the Teacher's Chat room - come see teacher innovations and adaptations of the Camp resources for their classrooms. The gallery of projects will open until November 30th. This year's new teachers are also welcome to add project examples to the chat room anytime this month.
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