The loan kit Bear Dance: Window to Ute Culture includes a 25-page document with four sections-- Ute History & Culture, The Bear Dance, Ute Beadwork, and The Hand Game. Each section includes background information, lesson plans, and student activity sheets. 

BEAR DANCE LOAN KIT CONTENTS:

Notebook (lesson plans, etc.)  

 

• Activity Outlines
• Ute History and Culture

   

• Ute Bear Dance Tradition
• The Archaic Period
• The Legend of the Sleeping Ute
• The Ute Legacy
• Explorations in Southern Ute History
• Wolf, Little Deer, and the Ute Bear Dance
• Misc. short documents on Ute history
• Examples of Bear Dance drawings
• Ute Beadwork
• Ute Hand Game

Open or download this document: BearDance.pdf

Books

• The Night the Grandfathers Danced
• Beardream
• Ute Indian Arts & Culture

 

Videos

• Colorado Ute Legacy
• Bear Dance
• Hand Game

CD: Bear Dance Stories

 

Audiocassette:  Hand Game Songs

Artifacts

• Bear Dance rasp and stick (short pipe), mailed separately
• Dance shawl
• Beaded gauntlets (gloves)
• Beaded leather pouch
• Hand Game Drum and Drum Stick
• Hand Game Set:

__   Ten scoring sticks

__   Kick stick

__   Four hiding pieces ("bones")

__   Bandana

 

Work  Samples

• Cardboard bead loom, partially beaded
• Student beadwork

 

Ute Educational Resources

• Guest Speakers and Craft Demonstrators
• Annotated Bibliography
• Educational Organizations

 

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Cost to borrow a kit: No cost at this time.

To borrow or reserve a kit: Contact the Anasazi Heritage Center by phone at (970) 882-5600.

Lead time:  Call at least two weeks before you plan to use the kit. Kits are currently shipped first-class by the U.S. Postal Service. Many teacher reserve kits several months in advance, so plan ahead.