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Native Americans Lesson Plan

Native Americans Lesson Plan

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Native Americans

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Students recognize and identify the different geographical regions that each Utah Indian Tribe lived in. The Utah Indian tribes they identify are Shoshones, Utes, Gosiutes, Navajo, and Paiutes and the types of shelter these tribes lived in.

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native americans, shoshones, utah, ute, social studies

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7th - 10th

Subjects

Social Studies & History

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