blog # 8

In my assignment today, I was to explore an island that is related to a subject in school and write about it. The Island I went to is called the Native American Museum. When I first teleported to the island I walked around to see what it had to offer. It was a very small island, but they were still doing construction and fixing the island up. The island was connected to other islands which I had to walk to because I could not fly in the area. The other islands contained Native American shops and kivas (ceremonial chamber, but I headed back to the Native American Museum.

The first interaction that caught my attention was a glowing dream catcher with nine feathers attached. I placed my mouse on the icon and each feather contained a story passed down from their ancient ancestors. Each story is unique and quite interesting. The stories were about the native people before the discovery of America. After I read through all the feathers I walked to the center of the island where there was a huge drum surrounded by other small drums. I connected my earphones to the computer and clicked on the icon and played the biggest drum I could find. Each drum contained different drum beats from different tribes of Native Americans.

I walked around a little more and stumbled upon a wooden shack shop. The shop contained headdresses, axes, clay pots, and artwork which could be purchased with the Linden currency. I then walked to the information center where I received the most information about Native Americans. The Information Center itself was a teepee , and located in the middle of the teepee a fire burned. It contained artwork, signs, and different pottery scattered all around which were icons. When I clicked on the different icons it sent me to different websites which provided addtional information about Native Americans. On the way out there was a donation box to which visitors could donate money to their cause, where I was unfortunately unable to offer any money so I decided to leave Second Life.