This is our hope for all children everywhere.
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I hope you danceWhat a Wonderful Worldhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5IIXeR5OUI… Song of the Wolfhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVYskJire8… Where is the love?We believe it’s in all of us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRjN_WRAM6c… >> Continue reading: Where is the love? The True History of ThanksgivingHere’s a link to an article on the true history of Thanksgiving. It is likely this is not the story you’ve been told. www.aaanativearts.com/article937.html Here’s the most important thing we took from this article: A Different Perspective on ThanksgivingIf you are an educator or parent who teaches children about Thanksgiving, here is a MUST READ article offering a differing perspective and resources on the puritan/Indian mythology surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday. www.ewebtribe.com/NACulture/articles/thanksgiving.html Authentic Thanksgiving FoodFoods Available to the Pilgrims for their 1621 Thanksgiving from www.nativeamericans.com/Thanksgiving.htm FISH: cod, bass, herring, shad, bluefish, and lots of eel. SEAFOOD: clams, lobsters, mussels, and very small quantities of oysters BIRDS: wild turkey, goose, duck, crane, swan, partridge, and other miscellaneous waterfowl; they were also known to have occasionally eaten eagles (which “tasted like mutton” according to Winslow in 1623.) OTHER MEAT: venison (deer), possibly some salt pork or chicken. GRAIN: wheat flour… >> Continue reading: Authentic Thanksgiving Food Making Connections to Myth and Folktale… Lesson Planwww.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=281 In The Way to Rainy Mountain, N. Scott Momaday links the survival of the Kiowa people to their ability to remember, preserve, and pass on stories. Taking the idea one step further, Momaday models the necessity of personal involvement in the stories. For Momaday, to make sense of and find a place in the contemporary world, one must connect on a personal level with the stories of one’s past. In… >> Continue reading: Making Connections to Myth and Folktale... Lesson Plan Native Americans Today – Lesson Planwww.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=324 Many people think that Native Americans are a vanished people—that they do not exist in the present day. Using this lesson plan, teachers can use photo essays and other texts to introduce students to Native children and their families, thereby countering the idea that Native people no longer exist… >> Continue reading: Native Americans Today - Lesson Plan Chant to the Sunhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_baloCb-nM… A letter to parents about Thanksgivingwww.understandingprejudice.org/teach/thanksgiv.htm Thanksgiving presents a special challenge to school teachers who want to discuss the holiday without resorting to biased information about Native American history and culture. To prepare parents for an anti-bias curricular approach, educators may wish to use or adapt the letter below. Dear Parents: As a part of our anti-bias curriculum, we are taking a careful look at how we discuss and celebrate Thanksgiving with students. As you may know… >> Continue reading: A letter to parents about Thanksgiving Yeha-Noha Native American chanthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9frmZcFUgdA… Native American Pourquoi Tales – Lesson PlanEngage your students in an exploration of Native American heritage through a study of Native American pourquoi tales. Pourquoi tales explain why something or someone, usually in nature, is the way it is. Have your students read a variety of Native American pourquoi tales, explore the cultural origins and signficance of these stories, and share similar stories from their own cultures. For more info and resources click www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=324 Somewhere Over the Rainbowhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMLoAtC9RY… Battling for Liberty… Lesson Planwww.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=72 Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death!” has become such a part of American culture that students may not know where the phrase came from, though many will have heard it before. Yet how many know Tecumseh’s equally persuasive “Sell a country? Why not sell the air?” This lesson extends the study of Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech to demonstrate the ways Native… >> Continue reading: Battling for Liberty... Lesson Plan National Museum of the American IndianThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is a museum dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. It was established in 1989 through an Act of Congress. Operating under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, it has three facilities: the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which opened on… >> Continue reading: National Museum of the American Indian Teaching About Thanksgivingwww.learnnc.org/lp/pages/623 - Great resource for teaching about Thanksgiving! Wisdom of the EldersThis radio series, available in audio and text, features elders, historians, storytellers, artists, and leaders from thirteen American Indian Nations along the Lewis and Clark trail. These elders share their history, stories, culture, and music in a series of hour-long radio broadcasts… >> Continue reading: Wisdom of the Elders Moon of the Freezing Over
It is a time for us to take and gather, making sure that we will survive the long winter. It is the time to tell the stories of our People, around the fires within our lodges. A time to speak to the children about the old ways…our love of life and the land we live upon. Native American Booklist from the National Education Associationwww.nea.org/readacross/resources/nabooklist.html Native American BooklistNEA has released a recommended reading list that includes titles ranging from such pre-K classics as Mama, Do You Love Me to Tony Hillerman’s Joe Leaphorn Series that has been thrilling young (and older) adults for more than a decade. The following titles are listed by grade level and include fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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Please click here for a list of Native… >> Continue reading: Veteran's Day National Day of MourningThe National Day of Mourning www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/mourn.htm
On Thanksgiving Day, many Native Americans and their supporters gather at the top of Coles Hill, overlooking Plymouth Rock, for the “National Day of Mourning.”
The first National Day of Mourning was held in 1970. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts invited Wampanoag leader Frank James to deliver a speech. When the text of Mr. James’… >> Continue reading: National Day of Mourning Navajo Code Talkers AssociationThe Navajo Code Talkers, whose ranks exceed 400 during the course of World War II in the Pacific Theater. Have been credited with saving countless lives and hastening the end of the war. The Code Talker’s served in all six Marine divisions from 1942 to 1945. The Code Talker’s primary job was to talk and transmit information on tactics, troop movements, orders and other vital battlefield information via telegraphs and… >> Continue reading: Navajo Code Talkers Association Native American Stereotypestaken from this article – www.bluecorncomics.com/stbasics.htm Some non-Native stereotypes of Natives:
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Today we pay tribute to the Ogitchida, the “warriors” – the men and women in our armed forces and all who have gone before them. Many Americans are not aware that historically as a people Native Americans provide more members of the Armed Forces on a per capita basis than any other ethnic group in the United States.