If You Lived With the Hopi
Anne Kamma; Scholastic Paperbacks 1999
This book explores the history of the Hopi Indians, the “wise and beautiful people,” through a series of questions and answers that bring out information about their economic wants, and how they used the available natural, capital, and human resources to produce goods and services that would satisfy them
Economic Concepts
- Natural Resource
- Human Resource
- Capital Resources
- Economic Wants
- Production
- Goods and Services
Grade Levels
- Intermediate (4-6)
Related Subjects
- U.S. History
- Geography
- Multicultural


Description of Lesson 3, Indian Producers and Consumers,
From Adventures in Economic and U.S. History, Volume 1
Students read and discuss stories about economic life in three or more Indian tribes. They note the available resources as well as what was produced and how it was produced and used in each tribe.