Tribute to Medicine Bear

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did you know..........

The bear's ability to stand upright and reach out with its front paws

made the bear seem very human like to the Indians

The Sioux Indians did not believe that it was possible for a bear to

appear to a woman in her dreams

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KoalaSome Bear Facts:

Bears are the favourite animals of the authors of children's books and toy makers. The first teddy bear was probably made as early as 1902 by the German manufacturer Richard Steiff. Since that day millions of toy bears, named after the American president Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy's bear ) , were made, sold and collected. The most famous bears in literature are Paddington (created by M. Bond) and Winnie the Pooh (by A.A. Milne).

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Bear Dominos
To print and play!

Bear Domino Tiles
Great game for matching skills!
http://www.billybear4kids.com/animal/dominos/bears/dominos.html

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In The sky The stars of ursus maior still carry the names given to them by medieval, Arab astronomers. From left to right these names are: Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Phecda, Merak and Dubhe. The virtual line between the last two stars mentioned, known to modern science as alpha- en beta-Ursus Majoris, points towards the best known star in the sky: the polar star (Alroekaba, polaris) also known as: alpha-Ursus Minoris.

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?Hey Who Is This????????Wellllllllllllll.....Of Course It's Bearlands PolarBear!

no he's not real children:-P~sorrywell kinda real. He is a stuffed real polar bear(not alive)

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AMERICAN NATIVE BEAR STORIES

THE BADGER AND THE BEAR

ON the edge of a forest there lived a large family of badgers. In the ground their dwelling was made. Its walls
and roof were covered with rocks and straw. Old father badger was a great hunter. He knew well how to track
the deer and buffalo. Every day he came home carrying on his back some wild game. This kept mother badger very
busy, and the baby badgers very chubby. While the well- fed children played about, digging little make-believe dwellings,
their mother hung thin sliced meats upon long willow racks. As fast as the meats were dried and seasoned by sun and wind,
she packed them carefully away in a large thick bag.
This bag was like a huge stiff envelope, but far more beautiful to see, for it was painted all over with many bright colors.
These firmly tied bags of dried meat were laid upon the rocks in the walls of the dwelling. In this way they were both
useful and decorative.
One day father badger did not go off for a hunt. He stayed at home, making new arrows. His children sat about him on the
ground floor. Their small black eyes danced with delight as they watched the gay colors painted upon the arrows.
All of a sudden there was heard a heavy footfall near the entrance way. The oval- shaped door-frame was pushed aside.
In stepped a large black foot with great big claws. Then the other clumsy foot came next. All the while the baby badgers
stared hard at the unexpected comer. After the second foot, in peeped the head of a big black bear! His black nose was
dry and parched. Silently he entered the dwelling and sat down on the ground by the doorway.
His black eyes never left the painted bags on the rocky walls. He guessed what was in them. He was a very hungry bear.
Seeing the racks of red meat hanging in the yard, he had come to visit the badger family.
Though he was a stranger and his strong paws and jaws frightened the small badgers, the father said, "How, how, friend!
Your lips and nose look feverish and hungry. Will you eat with us? "Yes, my friend," said the bear. "I am starved.
I saw your racks of red fresh meat, and knowing your heart is kind, I came hither. Give me meat to eat, my friend."
Hereupon the mother badger took long strides across the room, and as she had to pass in front of the strange visitor,
she said: "Ah han! Allow me to pass!" which was an apology.
"How, how!" replied the bear, drawing himself closer to the wall and crossing his shins together.
Mother badger chose the most tender red meat, and soon over a bed of coals she broiled the venison.
That day the bear had all he could eat. At nightfall he rose, and smacking his lips together, --
that is the noisy way of saying "the food was very good!" -- he left the badger dwelling.
The baby badgers, peeping through the door-flap after the shaggy bear, saw him disappear into the woods near by.
Day after day the crackling of twigs in the forest told of heavy footsteps. Out would come the same black bear.
He never lifted the door-flap, but thrusting it aside entered slowly in. Always in the same place by the entrance way he sat down with crossed shins. His daily visits were so regular that mother badger placed a fur rug in his place. She did not wish a guest in her dwelling to sit upon the bare hard ground.

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Yogi Bear

[click link below]

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:tpHtqIiWdMQJ:www.campjellystone.com/game1.html+bear+games+online&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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Match the Bears Memory Game

http://www.bearden.org/memory.html

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Hey Kids... Here's The Cub Den!!!!!

"For bears everywhere, and for those children who are on their side."

(click the link below)

http://www.excite.sfu.ca/projects/exwork/best/bearden/cubden.htm

Bear Skull

Among the Plains and Southwestern tribes, the bear is respected as the symbol of invulnerability and healing. Bears were once considered so powerful that bullets, weapons, and other animals couldn’t hurt them, and it was believed that if a bear was injured, it could find the herbs required to heal itself. Bears also could heal and sometimes restore life to a human they considered a friend.

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watching for falling rocks
A visitor setting up camp at Lake Eleanor in Yosemite National Park hit herself on the head with a rock while trying to string up her food to protect it from bears.

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PolarBear ScreenSaver: http://www.aaascreensavers.com/screensavers/7art-clumsy-bears-screensaver-screensavers.phtml

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Panda bear Playhouse!!!!!!<o:p></o:p>

http://www.pandabearsplayhouse.com/<o:p></o:p>

Panda Central<o:p></o:p>

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandas/index.html

See A Live Cam Picture Of A Panda Bear!!!>>>>>

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandas/pandacam/index.html

p>http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/polarcam.html

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