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SHANE LONG
Dance

Eastern Woodland Stories, Dance and Song (Grades K-12)

Shane performs traditional songs and dances of the Eastern Woodland People.  Students will participate in dance and song in this fun filled and educational journey through America. Shane will help students learn and understand the people who lived in North America, long before Christopher Columbus came to the New World.  Students will discover the rich culture and ancient history of Native Americans.  They will also begin to recognize the relationship to the environment, cultural influences, and needs of different tribes.  Students will learn the rich cultural and artistic history of the Eastern Woodland People, and how the Woodland region stretched from eastern Canada to the western shores of the Great Lakes.  This landscape of woodlands, mountains, seacoast, and lakeshore, with prairie on its western rim was the homeland of tribes to three major families; the Iroquoian, the Algonquian, and the Siouan.  All these tribes used the natural resources provided by the fertile region irrigated by a number of ponds and rivers.  Crowhill Shane Long will teach students the Eagle and Condor dances to honor the tribes of North America and view actual Eastern Woodland artifacts.  Length 45 minutes.

Single Performance        $540

Pair of Performances:     $740

Curriculum Connections:  Social Studies, Physical Education, Music

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