tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post6020297541679607267..comments2023-04-08T07:28:51.498-08:00Comments on MOUNTAIN PULSE: Native American DiceRunninL8http://www.blogger.com/profile/00954492756662221754noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-37150016968433498792014-02-18T12:34:36.279-09:002014-02-18T12:34:36.279-09:00Thanks for sharing this game! We are going to hav...Thanks for sharing this game! We are going to have to play it. Love if you linked this up with me @costours.blogspot.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00222812729605751614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-44514013304234398912009-10-19T07:03:40.229-08:002009-10-19T07:03:40.229-08:00Hi Jessica! Thanks for stopping by! I'm sure...Hi Jessica! Thanks for stopping by! I'm sure you could modify this game to include more people. perhas just add more sticks. And you would have to make a rule such as only collecting counting sticks from the person on your left, to make things fair. We wounldn't want people to keep taking just one person's counting sticks! Hope you have lots of fun with this!RunninL8https://www.blogger.com/profile/00954492756662221754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-33105704180040320572009-10-18T18:45:08.957-08:002009-10-18T18:45:08.957-08:00Is this just a game for two people? I love the sou...Is this just a game for two people? I love the sounds of it!! My boys are too young for it, but I'd still love to make one and play with our dinner guests for thanksgiving this year! :)Jessica Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12152327170331184368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-71442208201183425282009-04-09T20:39:00.000-08:002009-04-09T20:39:00.000-08:00Thanksgiving was actually never meant to be a feas...Thanksgiving was actually never meant to be a feast anyways- not in the sense we think of it as, though it would coincide with times of abundance. Considering the deep religious beliefs Thanksgiving was meant as a day for prayer and worship, a day to give thanks to God for giving them a healthy harvest and such.<BR/><BR/>I would suggest holding a yearly "Harvest/Fall Festival" if the religiousness of the holiday bothers you. Feasts and the like have been celebrated all over the world. You could simply celebrate the changing of the seasons, the last bit of warmth before winter brings its frost. I would leave the Pilgrims out entirely. (Though some Native American traditions might be nice simply to connect back our own country's roots.) <BR/><BR/>Okay, that's all I've got I guess.Satsuki Rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00106775549331057570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-1912456498879977792008-11-26T02:01:00.000-09:002008-11-26T02:01:00.000-09:00I have Phillbrick's book Mayflower and like so man...I have Phillbrick's book <I>Mayflower</I> and like so many books, it sits unfinished on my window ledge. But yeah, Don asked me yesterday how many Thanksgivings the Pilgrims and Native Americans spent together? One.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-41471147937969887642008-11-23T07:50:00.000-09:002008-11-23T07:50:00.000-09:00I think your approach to teaching Lo about Thanksg...I think your approach to teaching Lo about Thanksgiving sounds balanced and fair. Thank you so much for sharing this game and how to make it. I've read about it being played in books before, but couldn't really picture it.dawn klingehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10068232686648964979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-19707291582234265562008-11-23T06:44:00.000-09:002008-11-23T06:44:00.000-09:00That popular book, Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbric...That popular book, <I>Mayflower</I> by Nathaniel Philbrick, is actually not that sugary, and it can refer you to the books on "Prince Philip's War," which was the series of wars that took place a decade or so after the First Thanksgiving. Yes, we exploited and killed many of the more hostile tribes in the area, but there are important caveats. I hate to say it, but you have to read Howard Zinn with the same sort of caveats that you read jingoistic and right-wing history books. Zinn can be a rhetorician and pretty dogmatic at times.<BR/><BR/>What we really need, though, is a history of settler-tribal warfare that is the equivalent of <I>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee</I>, but goes from Prince Philip's War in the 1630s up until the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears 200 years later. There are a few books on the Pontiac rebellion in the 1760s, the Ohio-Indiana wars in the 1780s and the Tecumseh wars in the 1810s, and lots of books on what a total prick Andrew Jackson was, but no comprehensive book from the Native American point of view. Or am I missing something?Loring Wirbelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11764834150305763077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-20021444140949616302008-11-22T02:19:00.000-09:002008-11-22T02:19:00.000-09:00I was just thinking about writing something on Tha...I was just thinking about writing something on Thanksgiving history. Maybe I will now. Plimoth Plantation has an interactive web site that allows you to view the story from the perspective of either a European child or a Wampanoag child. <BR/><BR/>My kids loved the "thunder hole" dice game we made last summer. I'm going to try something like this now!Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718731023662212448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-42983152479079811862008-11-21T19:23:00.000-09:002008-11-21T19:23:00.000-09:00Thanksgiving is a hard holiday to explain! I've ev...Thanksgiving is a hard holiday to explain! I've even read that "the Pilgrims" were actually several different groups, including some that wanted to reform the Church of England and some that wanted to be completely different and thus were called "Separatists". So it's not like it was all peace and harmony even among themselves.<BR/><BR/>Great game...I like how you personalized it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-6685499171719653822008-11-21T19:09:00.000-09:002008-11-21T19:09:00.000-09:00Oh boy! I love this post!!! Thank you first of all...Oh boy! I love this post!!! Thank you first of all for teaching your children the non-sugared coat tale of the "First Thanksgiving"<BR/> Being a Native American family, our family is not celebrating the traditional Thanksgiving anymore and will replace it with a Ghost Supper/Harvest Dinner focusing on our Ancestors and Native traditions.<BR/><BR/>Noah and I have been digging in deep the last few weeks searching for the true story. We have been on this truth seeking kick lately.<BR/>We found out a few interesting facts.<BR/>First of all, they called themselves Puritans or First Comers. It wasn't until many years later in a book that William Bradford wrote and referred to them as Pilgrims. <BR/>With in the first few weeks of land fall they raided the Massasoit's winter food storage and helped themselves. Then a few weeks later they saw the Natives and just started shooting at them. Hmmm... I wonder why the Massosoits were so freaked out. That and the fact that earlier explorers wiped out entire villages of Natives with small pox and tuberculosis. <BR/>Guess who made the first move to be friendly? yep, the Natives. <BR/>That spring and summer the Natives taught the Pilgrims to plant and hunt. They shared seed with them.<BR/>That fall in mid October they had a 3 day feast.<BR/>That really wasn't the "first" Thanksgiving, the Indians have been having simular harvest feast for many years. <BR/>There was a treaty made between the Indians and the Pilgrims and was kept until years after Bradford's death. That's a whole other story. <BR/>This is a great game, I love how you put an Alaskan Native twist to it! We are going to make us a set of sticks and dice as soon as I can get my hands on some walnuts. I can't wait to play! Thanks for sharing this :)Anethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05586391189475336018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-11858689686376593372008-11-21T18:26:00.000-09:002008-11-21T18:26:00.000-09:00Oh, that is a way cool idea and game. Kayla has a...Oh, that is a way cool idea and game. Kayla has a lesson block on native americans beginning in January and I'm going to have her do this!<BR/><BR/>We just finished watching Colonial House, and they also mentioned that it wasn't the great "love fest" that is so often shown in movies, cartoons, and books. The colonists only invited the indians to keep peace, as they were passing through at the time. The indians were not very happy about it all, but joined anyway. I guess it was a pretty strained dinner all around.Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06123765093917478478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-10349492560961776022008-11-21T17:56:00.000-09:002008-11-21T17:56:00.000-09:00Very cool project. I love the picture of Lo sandin...Very cool project. I love the picture of Lo sanding. :)Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08587519421636814074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2335028367566852790.post-83047280057762165962008-11-21T17:43:00.000-09:002008-11-21T17:43:00.000-09:00There are some great books out now that seem more ...There are some great books out now that seem more historical...and not the sugar coated public school depiction...hee :) i tried not to sugar coat...hope i was successful. Isn't it all about the TURKEY anyways...giggle :)<BR/><BR/>I got this great book from National Geographic part of the Holidays around the World series called "Celebrate Thanksgiving"...I really liked the photographs and the story line...talks about the heartbreak and the unity...but also the evolving Thanksgiving meaning. There is another book called Thanksgiving Is...by Gail Gibbons...it is pretty good too!tiffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852405610291511258noreply@blogger.com