Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2019 i Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and Children

1. It is estimated that there are 370 million indigenous people in the world, in more than 70 countries, representing 5,000 different cultures, and speaking the majority of the world’s 7,000 languages. 2. The Maya are often written about as if they no longer exist, but that is not the case. They live on the same land and practice the same rituals their ancestors did. From A.D. 250 to 900, the Maya led the planet in math, writing, and astronomy innovations. 3. A Nenets herder discovered the perfectly preserved body of a baby wooly mammoth that had been washed out of the Russian permafrost. Nicknamed Lyuba, this prehistoric cousin of the modern elephant was thought to have died about 42,000 years ago at the age of one month. 4. Coffee…

Water has always been sacred to the indigenous people of the United States. In fact, the Lakota phrase Mní wičhóni means “water is life.” The Lakota, one of North America’s original Native American tribes, are part of the Great Sioux Nation. About 8,000 members of the Nation live within the Standing Rock Reservation. The reservation is on land that stretches from North Dakota into South Dakota. In April 2016, the people of Standing Rock began protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). At the time, the 1,200-mile-long (2,000 km) oil pipeline was still under construction. It was completed in June 2017 and transports about half a million barrels of oil a day from North Dakota to Illinois. The DAPL was not built on the reservation’s land, but portions of the pipeline…

Characters: Narrator 1, Narrator 2, Narrator 3, Ma-ui, Brother 1, Brother 2, Mother (Hina-of-the-Fire), Sister (Hina-of-the-Sea) Narrator 1: Now, Ma-ui (MOW-ee) had done many great deeds, and he was a hero to many. But in his very own house, his brothers did not think very much of him. Brother 1: Why do we bother bringing you along when you never catch any fish? Brother 2: That is my fish, Ma-ui. See my hook in its mouth? How did you manage to get it tangled in your line? Narrator 2: Although he wasn’t a great fisherman, Ma-ui had discovered many of the tools his brothers used every day. For example, fish could often wiggle away from the smooth spearheads men once used. Ma-ui put barbs on his spearhead that held the…

Native peoples have learned to adapt to their environments. Tribes along the Amazon River live in harmony with nature in the wet, humid rainforest, while people of the Sahara Desert herd animals in a land of drought. Enter the beaver, a native North American rodent that is also very adaptable. The American beaver lives from coast to coast, except in the Arctic tundra and southern deserts. Second only to humans, the beaver has the ability to change the environment to its own advantage. If a beaver can’t FIND a place to live, it will MAKE a place to live. BEAVER BUILDERS Although they don’t actually wear hard hats like in the cartoons, beaver crews are indeed experts at construction. They gnaw and fell (cut down) trees to construct huge log,…

The Reindeer Connection The Nenets people of Siberia are expert reindeer herders who live in one of the harshest environments in the world, the frozen Arctic tundra. They share deep ties with the animals they herd. “The reindeer is our home, our food, our warmth and our transportation,” says Nenets herdsman Sergei Hudi. Eaten raw, frozen, or boiled, vitamin-rich reindeer meat is the most important part of the Nenets’ diet. Reindeer hides also provide homes. The hides cover wooden poles to create choom (cone-shaped tents). Heat is kept in and the cold out. When winter temperatures plunge to -50°, men wear coats made of four reindeer skins with the fur on the inside and the leather on the outside. Women’s coats are made of a double layer—about eight reindeer skins.…

Indigenous people have been making art for thousands of years. From totem poles and cave paintings to carvings and pottery, indigenous art captivates our imaginations. Despite being created in different parts of the world, indigenous art has many things in common. It all tells the story of the native people through symbols and images. Indigenous people made their own art materials. They used clay, leather, wood, and stone as canvases. Soil, crushed stone, berries, and leaves became paints. Until recently, most artists made their own paints. You can too by following a few simple directions. Step 1: Make a Support A support is whatever material you will do your art work on. You can use a rock, a piece of wood, clay either flattened or formed into a pot, or…

Motorcycles and scooters fill the streets of Da Lat, the capital of Lam Dong Province in the central highlands of Southern Vietnam. The cool mountain city becomes a bustling vacation hotspot during the sultry summer months. Couples exchange wedding vows on the lake, and families cool themselves in the expansive pine forests, lakes, and waterfalls. Tourists and locals wander the sidewalks in the misty rain in search of banh can (mini pancakes) and a cup of Vietnamese coffee, served over ice with sweetened condensed milk. Coffee is synonymous with Vietnam, which is evident by countless coffee shops, street carts, and cafés calling customers to the liquid love. The ice, sweet milk, and dark brown brew create a cascade of melting color inside a plastic cup. Each cup is a unique…

The Berbers are the earliest known inhabitants of the western Mediterranean coast of Africa, having lived in the area since 3000 B.C. However, “Berber” is the name given to them by outsiders. Some Berbers call themselves “Imazighen,” which means “the free men.” Today, Berbers live in parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Their home is the Magreb, the northern part of the Sahara Desert, and the Sahel. From 600 B.C. to A.D. 400. Berber traders linked the Mediterranean coast to the gold, ivory, and slave markets of West Africa. When the Arabs arrived in Morocco in the 600s, they began intermarrying with the Berbers. Although some Arab and Berber dynasties remained, for the most part, the two groups were racially mixed. Most Berbers accepted…

Indigenous groups of the northeast coast of North America create totem poles. Many carvers make poles to tell the story of a particular tribe or family. The word “totem” comes from the Algonquian word odoodem, which means “kinship group”, or “a family.” Carvers pick a single cedar log to carve into a totem pole. Depending on the log, poles can be up to 160 feet tall. A carver decorates a pole with carved figures of animals, spirits, and people who are important to the area it will stand in. Originally, carvers whittled by hand using tools made out of bones, seashells, beaver teeth, and stones. Nowadays, they use power tools, which makes sculpting much faster. After carving the pole with figures, a carver and his assistants paint the wood using…

Crack the cryptogram code to reveal a Native American proverb. In a cryptogram puzzle, a sentence is encoded by substituting numbers for the actual letters in the sentence. We have solved the code for “C” to get you started. Answers to the right on this page. Picture Credits : Dietlinde B. DuPlessis/Shuttersock.com: inside front cover; Sophia Granchinho/Shutterstock.com: 2-3; dikobraziy/Shutterstock.com: 4-5; Art Babych/Shutterstock.com: 4 (top left); Ruslan Kalnitsky/Shutterstock.com: 4 (top left center); Lucy Brown – loca4motion/Shutterstock.com: 4 (bottom center left); Yudina_Elena/Shutterstock.com: 4 (bottom left); John_Walker/Shutterstock.com: 4 (right); Amy Laughinghouse/Shutterstock.com: 5 (top left); photoringo80/Shutterstock.com: 5 (bottom left); Muellek Josef/Shutterstock.com: 5 (top right); Little Panda29/Shutterstock.com: 5 (bottom right); Chase Dekker/Shutterstock.com: 6; Frank Fichtmueller/Shutterstock.com: 7; Pulsar Imagens/Alamy Stock Photo: 8 (left); Sue Cunningham/Alamy Stock Photo: 8 (right); Images of Africa Photobank/Alamy Stock Photo: 9…