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December 2, 2000 Issue 24. native americans teach Students About Ways of Life.By Chris Bender Gazette staff writer. photos of actual Catawba pottery.
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Native Americans Teaching Theme
our own minds and in those of the children we teach. Not long ago I was working with Put photographs and prints of Native Americans today and yesterday on the
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Extractions: Language Arts ... Native Americans Native Americans Teaching Theme Bulletin Board Set Border Set Boy (Native American Dress) Boy (w/arrow) Chief ... Village Resource Materials Jim Thorpe:Legendary Athlete (Native American Biographies Series Northwest Indians We Are All America's Children Downloads Ancient Pictographs Screen Saver Indian Waterfall Theme Native American Screen Saver Spirits On The Wind Sites For Background Information Fighting For Our Lives First Nations Histories Looking Back Native American Conquest Hands On Activities By the Numbers Dramatizing Folktales, Legends, and Myths
LOGOS AND MASCOTS
That is what these team logos and mascots of native americans teach them~ that it is acceptable to demean a race or a group of people.
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Extractions: "When I first landed in Cincinnati, I thought there weren't any Indians living here. But since noon, I have seen a Cherokee, Navajo, Winnebago, Dakota, Mohawk and a Comanche ~ And those were just the RV's, trucks, cars and small aircraft!" Dennis Banks At a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, these remarks were quite humorous, yet point out the fascination that America has with imagery in promoting products. This promotion focuses on symbols that reflect either the product or the belief behind the image. For example Wings shoes uses a show with wings, NBC uses a peacock, Gibraltar Insurance uses a rock, etc. But what about when that symbol is a caricature of a human being or of a race of people? How does that imagery promote forms of racism? The Cleveland Indians baseball franchise has as its logo a caricature of an Indian head smiling with huge glaring buckteeth. The Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Redskins are all professional sport businesses which promote their teams with similar logos and mascots which demean and degrade Native peoples. The Atlanta Braves "tomahawk chop" is now a national gesture with baseball fans. Native people have demonstrated season after season in an attempt to halt the degrading chop. The sports fans who claim that the chop isn't offensive do not understand the deep pain which they inflict on Native people, especially Native children. Headdresses made of chicken feathers and the "war paint" they have adopted from Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans add to the wound of racism. Traditionally, eagle feathers are only given to or worn by those who have received them for some action of great honor. Not everyone is so awarded during their lifetime. To see fake feathers worn by painted, often drunken fans at a sports game is a mockery of something Native people hold sacred. It would be the same as a crowd of fans dressed up as the Pope at a New Orleans Saints game and doing the "crucifix chop". What would be the reaction of Catholics around the country?
All Recipes | Thank Heaven For Cranberries
Not only did native americans teach European settlers to enjoy the wild turkey meat,they also showed them that the cranberry's tart nature could be sweetened
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Extractions: Page 1 (of 1) The holiday season fast approaches, bringing with it thoughts and dreams of the traditional holiday meal. What would Thanksgiving and Christmas 'bird' dinners be without our tart, shiny little friend, the cranberry?! We all know that it is this bright red, tasty wee fruit that brightens and spices up the flavor of that turkey! We also have the cranberry to thank for adding that cheery, colorful touch to the decorated holiday dinner table, piled high with the foods we enjoy at this time of year. How did the scarlet cranberry become such a distinguished member of the American culinary culture and an intrinsic part of the traditional holiday meal?! History This small, impertinent fruit made its way from its humble origins in the swamps and bogs of North America to the tables of our most festive feasts. How? With a great deal of luck and pluck! Vaccinium macrocarpon (macro - large, carpon - fruit), the Large or American Cranberry, is indigenous to North America and was probably first used as a food by the Native Americans.
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native americans. 1. As a class, discuss important events, places and people in nativeAmerican history and 3. teach children a native American game called Rain
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Extractions: About Search Forums Newsletter ... Tell-A-Friend Printable Version for your convenience! Native Americans I. Geography 1. Make a map showing the migration routes of various Indian tribes in North and Central America 2. Children identify the different regions where the Indians lived in North and Central America. Each child identifies a tribe on the map and places a push pin in the appropriate region. Each child researches the tribe and writes 5 interesting facts about it. 3. Locate on a map of Mesoamerica: Yucatan Peninsula, Maya Lowlands? Maya Highlands, Copan, Palenque, and Tikal. II. History 1. As a class, discuss important events, places and people in Native American history and have the children draw a picture of a certain event. 2. Construct a timeline of Mayan dominance and note some of their accomplishments.
Native Americans - Lesson Plans For Elementary
Collaborative Thematic Unit. Theme native americans. by Barbara Guzior and Mary Huffstetler 10. Understanding temperature. teach the children how to read a thermometer in 5 degree
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Extractions: 1. Know that there are many tribes of Native Americans and that they differ from each other 2. Understand Indian legends and why they were important 3. Experience the arts and crafts of some Native American tribes 4. Know why plants and animals were important to Native Americans and be able to identify some of the common ones. Materials and Resources: 1. Student copies of the following books: The Gift of the Sacred Dog, Annie and the Old One, The Desert is Theirs, Dancing Teepees,The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, and First Came the Indians 2. Collection of books related to Native Americans (see list) Internet resources National Museum of the American Indian - Smithsonian Institute
Native Americans Theme - Thematic Units, Lesson Plans And Resources For Teaching
Research the traditions and histories, oral and written, of native americans before attempting to teach these.
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Hardships On The Oregon-Trail
Col. Patrick Conner, stationed in Salt Lake City, was among those who wanted to teach the native americans a lesson.
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Extractions: The first section of the Oregon Trail bisected two major Native American tribesthe Cheyenne to the north and the Pawnee to the south. The emigrants worried about both. But the expected attacks did not come. In fact, there were many instances of Native American kindnesshelping pull out stuck wagons; rescuing drowning emigrants; even rounding up lost cattle Most of the encounters with Native Americans were simple business transactions. The emigrants offered clothes, tobacco or rifles, in exchange for Native American horses or food. Within a few years, the emigrants had overgrazed the prairie grasses, burned all the available firewood, and depleted the buffalo . Soon many tribes along the Platte were impoverished. The emigrants worried a great deal about possible Native American attacks, but very few were ever actually killed by the native tribes.
Dos And Donts
little . Research the traditions and histories, oral and written,of native americans before attempting to teach these. Avoid
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Extractions: Please visit the Ableza Home Page by clicking the logo above! Understand the term "Native American" includes all peoples indigenous to the Western Hemisphere. Present Native American Peoples as appropriate role models to children. Native American students should not be singled out and asked to describe their families' traditions or their peoples' culture(s). Avoid the assumption there are no Native American students in your class. Use books and materials which are written and illustrated by Native American people as primary source materials: speeches, songs, poems, and writings, which show the linguistic skill of a people who have come from an oral tradition. When teaching ABC's, avoid "I is for Indian" and "E is for Eskimo." Avoid rhymes or songs that use Native Americans as counting devices, i.e. "One little, two little, three little..." Research the traditions and histories, oral and written, of Native Americans before attempting to teach these.
Why Do I Need To Teach About Native Americans?
Cultural Understanding and Multicultural Education are Important to Reaching Mynative American Students, But Why Do I Need To teach About native americans?
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Extractions: This page is Bobby Approved Okay, Cultural Understanding and Multicultural Education are Important to Reaching My Native American Students, But Why Do I Need To Teach About Native Americans? 1. First of all, North Carolina has the largest Native American Population east of the Mississippi River, so more than likely there are Native American students in your classroom! For more facts visit the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs North Carolina Indians Facts Sheet Page 2. To Begin to Address the Miseducation of Your Students and as the First Level of Multicultural Education Multicultural Education is a process and the contributions level is one of the lower levels of the process of multicultural education. At the contributions level there is a focus on teaching about the contributions of all diverse populations of this society so we can listen, appreciate, and analyze the diverse voices that comprise our society. E Pluribus Unum- Out of Many, One, our nation was founded on the interaction of many diverse populations and Native Americans are one of our many diverse populations that our students have been miseducated about. Remember the Contributions Level is JUST ONE step of the Multicultural Education Process IT IS NOT Multicultural Education itself. It is an important part of the process, but it is not the process itself. Do not think that if you teach about Native Americans along with all the other aspects of your curriculum that you have done multicultural education.
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What Not to teach About native americans. June Sark Heinrich recently directedan alternative school for native American children in Chicago.
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Extractions: What Not to Teach About Native Americans June Sark Heinrich recently directed an alternative school for Native American children in Chicago. Through her experiences she revealed many inadequacies in the way teachers present the history and heritage of the Native American people. As a result, she offers the following ideas to assist elementary school teachers in correcting the most common errors made in presenting Native American subject matter: Don't use alphabet cards that say A is for apple, B is for ball, and I is for Indian. This idea may seem small and trivial, but if you want your students to develop respect for Native Americans, don't start them out equating Indians with things like apples and balls. Don't talk about Indians as though they belong in the past. The fact is that about 800,000 Native Americans live in the United States, many on reservations and many in cities and towns. Don't talk about "them" and "us". Doing this reflects extreme insensitivity, as well as a misconception of historical facts. Actually, "they" are more truly "us" than anyone else.
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During our research we stumbled upon some wonderful ideas relating to how tocorrectly teach young children about native americans in an article titled
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Extractions: Some Teaching Ideas About How to Positively Present the Native American People Teaching students about Native Americans will be a task that will require a little bit of work on our part. We will have to go out and do some research, and come up with some authentic lessons and activities, rather than relying on materials that are already out there. It is probably recommened NOT to use most of those commercially prepared teaching materials that are currently out there, because several present a very generalized image of Native American people totally disregarding any individuality. During our research we stumbled upon some wonderful ideas relating to how to correctly teach young children about Native Americans in an article titled, "Teaching Young Children about Native Americans" by Debbie Reese (ERIC DIGEST, 1996). Here are some of the suggestions that she made: Make sure to provide present-day knowledge about Native Americans to balace the historical information. If you teach from only a historical point of view the children may come up with the idea that they only existed in the past.
Native American Lesson Plans
and television is make believe and Hollywood scenarios and not the real life ofthe native American, I teach this unit.. ; native americans Students select a
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Extractions: Free Sites ... Professional Development Enter your email address for FREE weekly teaching tips! Home Teacher Resources Lesson Plans Social Studies ... Native American Culture Continues to Change - As students prepare to learn about the monumental events of the late eighteenth century that created the cultural framework for our country as we know it today, it seems appropriate to reflect on what has happened to Indians in North America up to this point. Native Americans in a Box - This lesson will help students recognize and critically analyze the influence nature/environment had on how Native Americans lived and survived. Native American Interdisciplinary Unit - "The Native American has for hundreds of years been stereotyped. To help children understand that what they see in movies and television is make believe and Hollywood scenarios and not the real life of the Native American, I teach this unit.." Native Americans - Students select a native american nation and research its culture. Students then complete a variety of on-line and off-line activities using the results of their research.
Native Americans Web Sites
tribute to the contributions of native americans in 20th Council and presented byHuntington native, Dan Cutler. teachnology - The Art and Science of teaching
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Extractions: Free Sites ... Professional Development Enter your email address for FREE weekly teaching tips! Home Teacher Resources Subject Matter Social Studies ... American Indian History and Art - Biographies and portraits of several historic Native Americans including Sitting Bull, Quanah Parker, Chief Joseph. The American Indian in Tennessee - Traces the last 15,000 years of Native American occupation of Tennessee, using artifacts from the McClung Museum's extensive collections. Includes the Duck River Cache, considered the greatest find in Tennessee archaeology, dating from the Late Mississippian period (ca. AD 1450). American Indian Kids - Historical look at Native Americans for kids, ages 6-10. Emphasizes Indian family and community life. American Indian Policy Center - Provides government leaders, policy makers, and the public with accurate information about the legal and political history of American Indian nations, and the contemporary situation for American Indians. Anadarko Festival - Historical photographs taken by John C. Chapman during the 1947 Anadarko, Oklahoma, Indian Festival.
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Mini-Unit Topic: Native Americans
The lessons do not specifically teach about native americans, such asthe history and involvement with Columbus. The theme of native
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Extractions: Fall 1994 My mini-unit theme was decided after discussions with my cooperating teacher. She was going to be teaching the students about Native Americans and we decided that my mini-unit could be on the same theme so it would coordinate with her lessons. My lessons were developed for a second grade class and were designed to be an introductory unit to Native Americans. The lessons do not specifically teach about Native Americans, such as the history and involvement with Columbus. The theme of Native Americans was used as a guide to teach subject content and to give the students a general idea of what is important to Native Americans. Each lesson begins by reading a book about Native Americans, discussing the book with the focus on Native Americans, and then completing a related activity that covers content of various subjects. The unit is introduced with the book A,B,C's The American Indian Way
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You are here teach Thematic Units native americans. Lesson Plansfor native americans, native American Ways (K) Through a variety
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Extractions: Through a variety of disciplines, students will discover how Native Americans live, as well as their legacy and impact on our everyday lives. Some of the activities in this unit include reading Native American legends and examining the significance of different artifacts, such as a drum and totem pole.
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Although the goal of these materials is to teach about other cultures in positiveways, most of the materials group native americans too broadly.
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