Archive for November, 2008
What a Wonderful World
Posted in 2008 November, tagged Louis Armstrong, peace, peacekeeping, What a Wonderful World on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Song of the Wolf
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, Native American, Song of the Wolf, wolf on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Where is the love?
Posted in 2008 November, tagged Blackeyed Peas, music, peace, peacekeepers on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We believe it’s in all of us.
The True History of Thanksgiving
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, Native American, Thanksgiving on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’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:
…Over the centuries, Thanksgiving has become a special day to join with loved ones in an offering of thanks for our blessings. Some [...]
A Different Perspective on Thanksgiving
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, Native American, Thanksgiving on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If 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 Food
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, food, Indian Education, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Foods 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 [...]
Making Connections to Myth and Folktale… Lesson Plan
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, folktales, Indian Education, Kiowa, lesson plan, N. Scott Momaday, Native American, The Way to Rainy Mountain on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
www.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 [...]
Native Americans Today – Lesson Plan
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, lesson plan, Native Americans on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
www.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.
Chant to the Sun
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Chant to the Sun, Indian Education, Native American, native american music on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A letter to parents about Thanksgiving
Posted in 2008 November, tagged American Indian Heritage Month, Indian Education, Native American, parenting, prejudice, Thanksgiving on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
www.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 [...]
