Teachers Workshop  May 27, 2010

      Indians of Missouri

Schedule

8:30-9:00 Check in at the Arrow Rock State Historic Site Visitor Center. Coffee and rolls will be served.

9:00-10:10  The Missouria Indian Nation by Michael Dickey, Arrow Rock State Historic Site Administrator and author of  Arrow Rock, Crossroads of the Missouri Frontier.

10:10-10:30 Break. (View exhibits on Indians of the area.)

10:30-11:30 The Ioway in Missouri by Greg Olson, Curator at the Missouri State Archives and author of  The Ioway in MIssouri.

11:45-1:00 Fried chicken lunch at 1834 Huston Tavern.

1:00-2:15  Tall Eagle and Hides to Blankets, Pots to Pans, Rocks to Knives, two upper elementary to adult education programs by Connie Grisier, Historic Site Specialist III, Missouri's American Indian Cultural Denter at Van Meter State Park.

2:15-3:00  Outdoor atlatl demonstration and time to "try your hand."

Registration and payment of fee must be postmarked to the Friends of Arrow Rock, Box 124, Arrow Rock, MO 65320 by May 21, 2010. Your check or school purchase order is your reservation; a receipt will be in your packet picked up on day of workshop.
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For more information call 660-837-3231 or send us an e-mail. 



History of Friends of Arrow Rock Teacher Workshop

Since 2002, the Friends of Arrow Rock have conducted eight workshops for elementary and secondary teachers promoting the educational resources to be found in Arrow Rock. Usually held the last Thursday in May, we have averaged 65 in attendance. For a registration fee of $40 each, they usually hear two speakers and have guided tours of exhibits, demonstrations, and/or historic buildings devoted to a topic which falls under the general umbrella of Westward Expansion. This fee includes morning refreshments, a packet of information, and the fried chicken dinner at the Arrow Rock Tavern. Past topics have included:
               
   2002  Indians of the Boonslick
   2003  Lewis and Clark in Missouri
   2004  Arrow Rock and the Santa Fe Trail
   2005  Arrow Rock, the Osage, and the Missouri River
   2006  Economics of Westward Expansion
   2007  George Caleb Bingham
   2008  Plantation Life in the Boonslick
   2009  Paddle Wheels to Wagon Wheels