During this activity students/families will watch two videos–one introducing them to glaciers and a second about how glaciers shaped the northern Bighorn Basin in Wyoming. They will then make their own glacier and landscape to observe how glaciers move! What Are Glaciers? Northern Bighorn Basin Glaciation Let’s Make Glacier Gak Materials Two 8-oz. (One 16-oz.) […]
BRAND NEW INTERACTIVE 360 ONLINE ADVENTURE! Come explore the alpine habitat of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem using this engaging interactive! Learn about this special habitat and the amazing animals that live there with 360 photos, immersive videos, activities and content. This resource is perfect for students, teachers, and families! And, teachers—all content is standards and inquiry based […]
In this second part of the series of blogs on Plains weaponry, I will introduce the stone-headed war club. Read part 1Read part 3 There are many types of clubs, hatchets, tomahawks, etc. used across the Americas. On the Plains, however, we developed a particular style of stone club that is both distinctive and elegant […]
In a series of blogs on men’s weaponry on the plains, I will discuss several different weapons, beginning with perhaps the most well-known: the bow and arrow. Read part 2Read part 3 For the Nakoda, like most Plains Nations, the bow, idazipa, and the arrow, wohiŋkpe, are indispensable weapons. Their origins are sacred, as the use of […]
Plains Indian Map Project This past fall, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, with the help of generous funding from The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, added an interactive Plains Indian map in our Plains Indian Museum. A fusion of scholarship and educational interpretation, the map shows more than 45 different Indian cultures, their […]
Yellowstone’s most prolific invasive species—with a regional population of roughly 3.5 million—is migrating through Yellowstone once again. Every summer, these reckless beasts travel from diverse environments across the earth (sometimes solo, sometimes in large herds) to disrupt the delicate balance of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. They’re an unmistakable species: disease-ridden, dangerous, unbelievably loud, and historically […]