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Try It Online
  Try these interactive activities online! In each one, you'll be the historian, looking for clues and answers as to what took place in the past.
  Building a Sod House
You're a homesteader headed out to "stake your claim" on the great American prairie. Build a sod house!
  You Be the Historian
Explore objects and documents to discover how historians learn about the past and what life was like 200 years ago.
  Buffalo Hide Painting
Learn about the language of Native American buffalo hide paintings, then make a painting of your own!
Buffalo Hide Painting Interactive Activity You Be the Historian Interactive Activity
Buffalo Hide Painting Interactive Activity You Be the Historian Interactive Activity
 
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