4th Graders Connect to Homestead National Monument
On Tuesday, December 13th, Pleasanton fourth graders connected to Homestead National Monument in Beatrice, Nebraska. U.S. Park Ranger, Jesse Bolli, gave a live interactive presentation, “Buffalo Tales”, discussing how Native Americans in Nebraska used the buffalo for their survival. Mr. Bolli showed a variety of Buffalo parts from a trunk in the museum, including a Buffalo hide, bones, bladder, stomach, and other parts.
Mr. Bolli shared that it took ten to twenty Buffalo hides to make a tepee, depending on the size of the tepee. Hides could be used for shields, doors, blankets, and rugs. The meat was readily consumed in a feast, but much of the meat was dried into jerky for later use.
Bones were used for weapons, scrapers, gardening tools, and even toys. The bladder was often used as a canteen, or for other types of pouches. Mr. Bolli showed a pouch made from a hide, but decorated with porcupine quills. The quills were boiled, flattened and woven into the hide.
Thank you for teaching us about buffalo. Now i now that bladder was made for canteens.
Thank you for teaching us about buffalo.We learned that they use small bones were used for toys. They ate eyes. They used shoulder blades are used for shoves. Bladder was used for canteens and sewing kits.It takes 10 to 20 buffalo skins to make a teepee. They had a feast with each buffalo. Each person ate about 10 pounds of buffalo.
Indians like the Poncas and Omahas lived in Nebraska. The best animals to them was the bison or called buffalos. The skull was used in spirituals. The stomach was used to cook and store things. The shoulder blade was used as a shovel. The bladder was used as a canteen. The hide was used to make cloths, blankets, and to cover teepees. It took ten to twenty of them. The ribs were used as tools. The indians ate about ten pounds each day. They went to other teepees to give food. Thank you Mr. Bolli.
I learned that the Native Amarican Indians used a bison bones to make eating utensils. you can use a bison shoulder blade to make an ax. you can make a canteen out of a bison bladder . you can cook with a bison stomach. you can use a bison leg bone for stakes to hold op your tepee. They eat all of the meat they have a big feast after a big bison hunt. They eat about 10 pounds of meat at a feast. Thank you Mr.Bolli.
Mr.Bolli thanks for teaching us about everything.Like buffalos,indians.I even learned about how they used horns.I even learned what they used buffalo skin.I even learned they used buffalo bones for tools.I even learned that they used the stomach for carrying water and for kitchen tools.I even learned they used the shoulder bone for making a paddles,shovels and a lot more.I even learned they used the bladder for putting there stuff in it. I even learned they made their cloths from buffalo hide.I even learned they used about 10 to 20 buffalo’s hide to make a tepee.
Thanks Jesse for teaching us about the bison. I learned that you can use a shoulder blade for a shovel and a hoe.You use a stomach for cooking .It takes 10-20 hides to make a tepee. they ate the meat.
I learned that you that you put water in a bison bladder and drink out of it. You can use a bison shoulder blade as a shovel. You can us a rib as a guarding tool and a runner on a sled. You can us a little bone as a toy. You can us a bison stomach to hall water. You can use dry hide to make a shield. You have to use 10 to 20 hides to make a tepee. They eat 10 pounds of meat.
Thanks for teaching us about buffalo Jessie.I learned that a buffalo tung gets rougher wants it dryes.Later on I learned that a shoulder bone was used as shovel.they used a brain to tan leather.they needed about 10-20 buffalo hides to make a tepee. They eat about 10 pounds eveary meal.
Thanks Jesse. I learned that buffalo helped Indians survive the wilderness with their meat and their skins.I learned that the buffalo’s shoulder can be used as a shield,shovel. I learned that Indians used buffalo stomach to cook. I learned that it takes 10 to 20 buffalo skins to make a tepee. Indians could make a shield. Indians eat up to 10 pounds in a feast.
thanks Jesse for teaching us about the buffalo.I learned what the hide was used for I don’t want to name them all but the main use is protection.
Thanks, Jesse, for talking to us about the Buffalo and how the Indians survived with using the Buffalo. I learnd about Indians sewing and the needle is made out of Buffalo bone. They used the hide of the Buffalo to make a tepee.
I learned that the indens had to have the bisson or they could not live.You tough us alot to day.It was fun learning about the bisson.The sholder blade was used as a shovel because it looks like a shovel.Thankyou Mr.Bolli for teaching us.
Thaks Jesse for teaching us about bison . The native amercan needed bison to survive . They used the blater like a cantine . They used the shoulder bone like a shovel . They used the brain to tan he leather. they blew up the bladder and played with it. They the hide for bags and decerated them with fiber . They needed 10-20 bison hides to make a tepee . after they had a feest after a susesfule hunt .Everybody ate as much as 10 pounds. they ate the touge and used it as a comb .. they used pokeypine nedle to decerate the bags . they ate the heart and liver.hopfuly go there some time . thank you for teaching us.
thanks Jesse for telling us that American Indians used bison shoulder blades for a shovel .I learned that it takes10 to20 hides to make a tepee .Thank you.