"Wind Dreamer" visits Indian Trials
Submitted by Jeanne Wood
Native American Heritage Month
was November but Indian Trail Middle School focused on Native American culture November and December. Social studies teachers took the lead for their teams and all worked together to create hallway displays.
The Native American cultures studied included the Nez Perce, Calusa, Anasazi, Timucua, Cherokee, Seminole,Powhatan, Sioux, Iroquois, Miccosukee, Apache, Lakota, Wampanoag and even the Navaho Code Talkers of WWII. Tuesday a Native American teacher, Wind Dreamer (Shirley Buglione,) 
dressed in a beautiful Native American outfit and came to our school. She gave presentations with artifacts and other memorabilia during the 6th, 7th and 8th grade lunch periods and in individual classrooms the other periods.
dressed in a beautiful Native American outfit and came to our school. She gave presentations with artifacts and other memorabilia during the 6th, 7th and 8th grade lunch periods and in individual classrooms the other periods. At the end ofthe presentation Ms. Buglione told the students about the poverty conditions in which the children live on the reservations and suggested that students might want to donate items that the children need. These generous middle schoolers donated a large amount of toiletries, toys,
and school supplies to the over five hundred children at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. For the culminating activity social studies teachers took each of their classes on a tour of the building so they could see the various displays. Each teacher had submitted three
questions whose answers could be found in the display. These were compiled into a worksheet which students completed as they took the Trail of Tears tour around the building. This school wide activity was a huge success. The Cultural Diversity Committee of ITMS plans other
cultural displays throughout the remainder of the year. January will feature the Asian culture.