Laura Czarniecki Sovereignty Lesson Lesson Title Mapping The Great Flood a story of the Squaxin Island tribal members Background This lesson would be one part of a series of lessons to prepare students for a field trip to Squaxin Island Museum The story of The Great Flood is featured on one of the five large panels that describe Squaxin culture and history Hopefully by working with this story in the classroom prior to the field trip the students will recognize it as familiar in the museum Learning Goal 2nd Grade GLE 3 1 1 Understands and applies basic mapping elements such as symbols compass rose labels and a key to read and construct maps that display information about neighborhoods or local communities Lesson Objective Given a teacher led read aloud and introduction to map making students will be able to create maps of the Puget Sound including a compass rose labels and a key Materials Stories about The Great Flood from Squaxin Island Museum website Chart Paper and Drawing Paper Color pencils Crayons Map of Puget Sound Procedures Phase 1 Introduction 2 minutes Today during story time I am going to tell you two stories that I heard while visiting the Squaxin Island Museum You may notice that the stories are similar in some ways and different in others Both stories explain how the ancestors of the American Indians of the Puget Sound came to live in the South sound Phase 2 Read the two stories 10 minutes Sometimes stories can give us many clues about what the lands or settings of the story looked like and what types of animals and plants lived there One way to collect all these clues into a picture is to make a map of the setting that includes details from the story As I tell you the following stories listen for any clues about what the land looked like and who or what lived there Read the following stories aloud try to memorize as much of the stories as possible so that the students have the experience of being told the stories rather than being read to Laura Czarniecki Sovereignty Lesson Both stories are called The Great Flood they are remembered and told by two different Squaxin tribal elders Jim Krise and Cecil Cheeka They have been recorded and made available to non tribal members by the museum and its website Version One Told By Jim Krise The Great Spirit came and told the people to make some big rafts that a lot of rain was going to come and destroy a lot of the earth and its people The Indians built big rafts of cedar logs lashed together with cedar root ropes and were told to drift toward a certain mountain There was a big rock on the mountain and they tied onto this rock About the time their rope was giving out they didn t have any more length of rope the rains ceased and the waters receded There were a great number of Indians on this raft but those chosen by the Great Spirit to carry on were not selected until after the flood The animals who came after people were originally people They were changed into their present form at this time by the Great Spirit who judged people and changed them For instance the Great Spirit after observing the people on the raft said to one young man You have a nice beautifullyformed body and are fleet of foot but you are overly vain about your running ability so you shall become Deer and forever depend upon your fleetness of foot to survive To one cross old woman he said You are a grumpy old woman so you shall become Bear and you will have to walk on all fours and forever scratch around for sustenance To this day Indians will say Don t be mean to bears in the woods Maybe one is your grandmother All the animals have a similar explanation for being They were judged at the flood and depending upon what they had been as human they took the same characteristics into the animal world Version Two Told by Cecil Cheeka Ancient legends tell us of a great flood not much different than the story in the bible The people were told to prepare several canoes and stock them with food supplies for many days as it was going to rain and there would be a great flood It rained and rained until pretty soon the water was so deep it was up to the mountain tops The people took out their ropes and tied their canoes to the top of the Olympic Mountains to keep from drifting away and getting lost The rain eventually stopped and the water started to recede Some of the canoes broke loose and floated away Some to the north some to the east and some to the west The ones that floated south settled in what is now known as the Puget Sound Basin Thus creating all the bands of natives that are our ancestors The inlets of South Puget Sound were full of our tribal people until in the late 1800s diseases brought in by Europeans sometimes intentionally decimated our populations Laura Czarniecki Sovereignty Lesson Where once there were multitudes there were few if any survivors of our people Phase 3 Gather a brainstorm list 8 minutes Gather a list of map features on the chart paper by asking the following questions essentially you are making a really large key What parts of the land were mentioned in the stories Olympic Mountains Puget Sound inlets of the South Puget Sound What animals Did bears live there during the time of this story Do bears live there now deer bears people Which people lived there American Indian people ancestors of modern day tribal people What types of boats were used What were the boats or rafts made out of rafts canoes cedar trees and cedar roots Where did the other canoes go How could we show those directions on the map north west east use arrows lines dots As the students provide answers record any questions that you cannot answer This can be the start of a list for the museum personnel Now suppose I wanted to include all of this information on my map of the South Puget Sound It takes me a really long time to draw one little tiny picture of a deer and I want the person looking at my map to know there are lots of deer in all over the land What could I do Wait for student responses Try out their ideas If none of them decide a symbol might work than introduce the idea yourself One idea is to create a symbol for deer that is easier for me to draw I can put this picture next to the word deer and now someone knows that every where I draw this symbol there might be deer on the map What kind of symbol could I use for the mountains What about the canoes and the raft This list of words and the symbols next to them is called a key …
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