Adam Valencia, Peter Pendleton Elementary: . . . . Tue, Dec 11, 11:02AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Hello. My name is Adam Valencia and I am did a report on the Chumash people in my class. My teacher, Mrs. Montoya, helped me to get a lot of information about the Chumash. The Chumash Indians are a really old tribe. They lived all around the coast of California, even on the Channel Islands. I found out that the oldest Chumash area that was ever known was beneath the Diablo Cemetery and archeologists believe that it is thousands of years old.
The Chumash people were very intelligent and smart people. They made tools and utensils out of animal bones and tar, and sometimes abalone shells. I went to the following website and studied about the Chumash. I did my report based on the things I read there. That is a really cool place to visit on the Internet. Here is the website: button
Here are some pictures that I had put into my report.
This picture is from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
This picture is also from that site.
I learned so much about the Chumash. I really learned that they were really great people. Adam Valencia, Peter Pendlenton Elementary School, Coachella, Ca.
Brian Hue: . . . . Sun, Jan 6, 4:38PM PST (-0800 GMT)
After my teacher, Miss Jones took our class to the South West Museum, I wrote this poem.
LIFE of INDIANS
Indians live here,
Indians live there,
Indians live anywhere,
One group of Indians lived in Colorado.
They slept in pueblos,
On a mesa,
On the biggest mesa,
One day the left Colorado.
Why? No one knows.
That's just how it goes.
Why? I don't know.
I would also like to know,
I have been to Colorado,
But I didn't see the historic pueblos.
Brian Hue: . . . . Sun, Jan 6, 4:44PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Adding to the poem just a short explination. Indians from Southwest United States sometimes lived in pueblos. Pueblos are made of adobe. Adobe is dried up mud. The Indians made the walls thick so it wouldn't be cold at the night and in the summer. The Indians used colors to repesent North, South, East and West. North is yellow, South is red East is white and West is blut
Michelle M. Nightingale M.S. : . . . . Sun, Jan 6, 4:47PM PST (-0800 GMT)
The Indians used to eat corn in four different colors, they were white, yellow, red and blue. We learned this when we went to the Southwest Museum with our teacher Miss Jones.
Kevin Situ, Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Sun, Jan 6, 4:52PM PST (-0800 GMT)
The Southwest Museum was all about Indians in North America. There were alot of weapons, different kinds of Indians have different weapons. Some Indians celebrate their ceremonies using masks. Some masks were Kachina which used the four colors of the corn white, yellow, red and blue to mean special things.
Grace Jones, Nightingale Middle School: . . . . Sun, Jan 6, 4:56PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Hello, we are lucky that our school is near the Southwest Museum, which incidentally is an excellent resource in East Los Angeles. We had a brief tour of the Museum where the students were exposed the the Indians of the North West, in Los Angeles area and New Mexico. Above are several students responses after the field trip.
: . . . . Fri, Jan 18, 5:01PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Julia Curiel, Napa St. Elementary
The first semester my 5th graders enjoyed studying Pangaea, making maps, and studying fossils. We made plaster molds of quite a few different items. We enjoyed studying the American Indians and the first Thanksgiving.
Julia Curiel Napa St Elem.: . . . . Fri, Jan 25, 6:14PM PST (-0800 GMT)
My students really enjoyed the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles, which has more displays than we could even visit. The tour guides are excellent. If you have not
visited this museum before it is well worth the trip. Some of the exhibits are: reptiles, skeletons (mammals and dinosaurs) insects, arachnids, American history, American Indian history, marine life, and many others. They also have a gift shop that has lots of great books and materials to add to your classroom science center.
Ms. G. Jones at Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 1, 11:40AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Welcome to the South West Museum!
The South West Museum is just a short drive from downtown Los Angeles, located just off the 110 freeways in East LA.
Here is some information about the South West Museum
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Other sites that might be of interest are
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Hope this helps!