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Item Nr: KM 12163 Title: After the Buffalo Jump: A Story of the Blackfoot Nation "Start-to-Finish" 5 Books
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Chu, Godwin
Length: 108 Prod/Pub: Don Johnston
Copyright: 2006 Series:
Book Type: FNC Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 10 days
 
  Traces the history of the Blackfoot nation in North America within a fictional story. Includes the story of Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump, a UNESCO World Heritage site where the Blackfoot people killed thousands of buffalo by running them off a cliff. The book explains how the Blackfoot used every part of the animal to provide food, clothing and shelter. In the late 1800’s, the white men came and killed the buffalo and pushed the Blackfoot nation onto a reservation, essentially destroying their culture & changing the Blackfoot way of life forever. Kit contains five copies of the book (108 pages). From the Start-To-Finish series Step Into History. Gold level (RL 2-3) Lexile 760. Publisher GR level N. IL 6-12. Reference KM 8816 for more instructional tools to support this kit in your classroom.

  Subjects:
  1600 - BOOK/BOOKS (IN KIT)
  1298 - HIGH INTEREST/LOW VOCABULARY
  591 - HISTORICAL FICTION
  1677 - LEXILE 700-799
  47 - MULTIPLE COPIES (5, 6, 7)
  621 - NATIVE AMERICANS
  1569 - NATIVE AMERICANS--PLAINS
  920 - READING--REMEDIAL TEACHING/INTERVENTION
  2024 - SIGNIFICANT DISABILITIES/SIG DIS
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES
  1024 - SPECIAL EDUCATION
  2023 - START TO FINISH