Google Earth: Surui Cultural Map

Use Google Earth to complete one the following options.

Option #1:

Go to Google Earth and search the Earth Gallery for the "Trading Bows and Arrows to Laptops" tour.  Watch the Surui Tribe Tour.  Write two paragraphs that compare and contrast the experience of the Surui people with the experience of the Native Americans in the United States.

The Dakota People near Fort Snelling, Minnesota (1846).

Option #2:

 Follow this link and download the Surui Cultural Map KML file.
Surui KML File

 Go to Google Earth and open the KML file.  Explore the Surui Cultural Map and take notes on these topics; First Contact, History, Battles, Animals and Plants.

Imagine that you have been hired to help the Surui design an ecotourism project.  Write three paragraphs to include in a travel brochure that tells potential tourists what they will see, do and learn during their visit to the Surui tribe's rainforest home.