Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Enhanced by the editors’ use of margin notations and a comprehensive index, the information contained in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is in high demand by Native peoples, researchers, journalists, attorneys, legislators, teachers and others of both Native and non-Native origins.

Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties

The Oklahoma Folklore Collection is the result of an effort by the Metropolitan Library System in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s to collect and preserve the stories, memories, and songs that make up Oklahoma’s rich folk tradition. Inside you will find stories, songs letters, interviews, poems, sheet music, brochures, and much more that brings to light Oklahoma History as it was being created. Along with the transcibed documents you will find an image of the original documents.

For anyone studying American history, you’ll enjoy exploring this site.

Oklahoma Folklore Collection

If your child treats money like it grows on trees, or magically falls from the sky, let GiveMe20.com be your resource for teaching them the true meaning of money.

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Quelf
Ages 12 & up / 3-8 players / 60 minutes to play

Quelf is insanity in a box! With this hilariously silly party game, you will have outrageous fun with your family and friends. Quelf will inspire you to use your creativity, wit and sense of humor in ways you’ve never imagined.

As you move around the game board, as one of eight quirky characters, crazy things start to happen. Your friends start talking strangely. Your mom’s face is wrapped in toilet paper. Your dad is acting like Dracula. And you are reciting a poem about your armpits.

Each game of Quelf is a new journey into wackiness. When the dust settles and someone crawls away the winner, you realize…you’ve never had this much fun playing a board game in your life! lapDoodle
Ages 6 & up / 3-6 players / 45 minutes to play

FlapDoodle is a game of totally silly nonsensical fun for kids and families! As you race through the FlapDoodle factory, you’ll use your creativity and imagination to answer crazy questions and do silly stunts.

Along the way you might run into to a cranky old man named Mr. SourFace! He’ll try to slow you down. But, if you land on a Ms. Goody Gumdrops space, you’ll get help to move ahead.

The first person to make it through the FlapDoodle factory wins, but everyone has fun along the way!QUAO (pronounced ‘cow’) – The Ultimate Dictatorship Card Game
Ages 12 & up / 3-6 Players / 30 Minutes

What is QUAO you ask? QUAO (pronounced ‘cow’) is the absolute, supreme ruler of an unruly wasteland at the edge of civilization where attempts at democracy are futile. QUAO is the ultimate dictator – an evil bovine with secret Rules.

What does it mean to be QUAO? Being Quao means you know the rules and everyone else has to figure them out. As you play this fast and fun card game, you’ll be challenged to discard all your cards first to win each round, as you try to become the QUAO.

Along the way, you’ll have to play along with QUAO’s loyal subjects. Each of them has their quirks: Quak will ask you to entertain your friends; BullyQ is QUAO’s heavy and has some crazy rules of his own; JaQuas will ask you to reveal something about yourself; and Cheata’ just wants to make everyone’s life hectic with her random requests

Whizizzle Phonics 1-2-3 and 4-5-6!
Ages 4 & up / 2-8 players / 10 minutes to play

Whizizzle Phonics is a fast-paced phonics game series that teaches the sounds of the English language. Designed by a dad and perfected by teachers, this series of phonics games keeps kids engaged in learning. Guided by the whimsical, yet brilliant Professor Whizinpiggle, a wise old pig who loves to read, kids learn phonics basics quickly and completely while they have fun.

Easier than memorization and more fun than flashcards, Whizizzle Phonics games help kids learn by using sight, sound and color. The six-deck series (levels 1-2-3 sold separately from levels 4-5-6) covers everything from short and long vowel sounds to blends, vowel brothers and digraphs.

Designed for use at home and in the classroom, every kid’s a whiz when learning is fun with Whizizzle Phonics.

Have any of you played these games? I’d love to hear what you think of them via the comment area below.

Literacy Connections

HearthSong – Toys You’ll Feel Good About Giving

Barbara Kane founded HearthSong in 1983 because of a growing conviction that, “..too often, in our culture, children are pushed to grow up too fast. I started HearthSong to make a statement reinforcing what parents themselves know is true, right and healthy–that childhood is a very special time.” Children need time to be children.

A catalyst for Kane was a major national news magazine’s cover story on “superbabies.” This article, and her own observations, made her more aware of how our society pressures parents to teach their children more and more facts, at earlier and earlier ages. In Kane’s view, “Earlier is not necessarily better. It’s important that children learn basic skills, but at the right developmental age. Most of all, children need time for creative, imaginative play. In fact, it is through play that children learn most readily.”

Kane chose the company’s name to reflect her values: the hearth, a traditional symbol for the center of the home, and song to symbolize the family spirit, the joy that parents and children can experience together.

Kane felt strongly that childhood is a unique period in the life of an individual, that the consciousness of a child is completely different from that of an adult, that there is a specific purpose and a specific pattern to childhood and to the development of a child’s consciousness, and that adults can help or hinder the accomplishment of that purpose and pattern.

With a love for children, a reverence for life, and a desire to support you in your task of parenting, we offer you our service and our products: toys you’ll feel good about giving.

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