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Whitman Mission National Historic SiteContour style beadwork from the Columbia Plateau area circa1900
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Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Make Indian Moccasins

Directions

Copy the pattern onto a large piece of brown construction paper or craft paper. Make sure you draw it large enough for your foot. Follow the cut and fold directions. Use a hole punch to punch out the circles and use yarn or string to lace the moccasins together.

Decorate your moccasins with crayons, paint, buttons, beads, fabric (glued on), even cotton balls. Let your imagination run wild!

 
pattern for moccasin
 

Instructions adapted from Whitman Mission Teacher's Guide, 2004.
Drawing of mammoth skeleton  

Did You Know?
In 1994 the Idaho Fish and Game Department drained Tolo Lake, a site of Nez Perce National Historical Park, for a restoration project. In the lake bottom, six to eight Columbian mammoth skeletons were found. A replica skeleton is on display in Grangeville, Idaho

Last Updated: October 26, 2008 at 18:49 EST