Project Activities:
 

Speakers: Mrs. Bev Peterson and Mr. Neil Oppendike
	Mrs. Peterson portraying "Cornflower," a Winnebago woman of Prophet White Cloud's village, described how her people used a basket filled with water and heated rocks to cook food slowly.  She shared information about the villagers' way of life, medicines they made from plants, and the frightening flight of the Indians north into Wisconsin before the Battle of Bad Axe. Click on the picture to see a video of her presentation
Mr. Oppendike with a dugout canoe oar	7th graders displaying items from his collection
A Sauk/Fox coat, cradleboard, and clothing	Mr. Oppendike with a buffalo skin

 

Student group activities:
Students at the computers developing the web page	Students working on a long house
Students sketching pictures for the history booklet and web page	Students cooked Indian corn soup, made corn mosaic designs and corncob darts for games.

 

Fieldtrip to Hauberg Indian Museum
Students listening to museum expert	A model longhouse at the museum
Our field guide/historian at Black Hawk State Park	Students learn about the Indian harvest season

 

Presentation of the 7th graders Area History to the local historical societies;
Students with Mrs. Peterson at the Prophetstown Historical  Museum	Students with Mrs. Amy McElhiney at the Tampico Historical Museum
Students with Mr. Gene Harrington at the Lyndon Historical Museum	Mr. Harrington examining the history book with a 7th grader

 

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