Shamanism It Ain T Native American Religion! As a result, many native americans see the use of the word shamanism as the The same goes for teaching. Often they did not want to teach but the class http://www.angelfire.com/journal/cathbodua/Shamanism.html
Extractions: When you hear the word "shamanism," what images jiffy-pop into your mind's eye? Most folks picture feather headdresses, buffalo hides, medicine wheels and dream-catchers—all images associated with Native American cultures. But contrary to popular opinion, a "shaman" is not an Indian medicine man, and "shamanism" is not a Native American religion. In fact, many Native Americans find the terms "shaman" and "shamanism" offensive. The word "shaman" actually originates among the natives of Siberia, where it describes a specialized type of holy person. The shamans of Siberia interact with deities and spirits not only with prayer, ritual and offerings, but also through direct contact with the spirits themselves. With the aid of rhythmic drumming and chanting, the shaman enters a very deep or "ecstatic" trance. (In discussions of shamanism, the word "ecstasy" is used in its original sense, from the Greek roots
The Culture History Of Native North America As A Whole teaching native American Religions By Ronald L. Grimes, 29 January 1995.Anguishes over whether European americans teach cources on native American http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/index-jf.html
Extractions: Native North America as a whole Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives The history in general of Native Americans in the U.S. as a whole A dialog on the NATCHAT list, February 1995. Native beliefs are as opposite from the New age beliefs as any one can get. There is no way that there can be any merging of the two without one group giving up their basic fundamental beliefs and adopting the other's beliefs. What the new agers do to our beliefs is another form of genocide that my people have had to endure.
Native American Resources the lessons presented here explore native American qualities and teach The First americans Study the five major native American cultures that are http://members.tripod.com/exworthy/nativ.htm
Extractions: Native American Resources S taff Dev. Lessons Links Teach Res ... Native Links - Wow! This is the place to go for links to information about any and all Native American Tribes, Nations, literature, education, art and tons more. This is a great resource! Native Tech - The Eastern Woodland tribes and their beadwork, pottery, games, clothes, metal, treets, stonework, weavings, poetry, food, and more is explored in detail here. Campfire Stories with George Catlin - Meeting middle and high school standards, the lessons presented here explore Native American qualities and teach American history, geography, art appreciation, environmental conservation, and multicultural studies. The Northeast Wigwam - The northeast tribes and their gardening, history, legends, pow wows, calendar, and more are described here. Institute of Native American Studies - This student developed site provides easy-to-read information, as well as photos of the class engaged in some projects that could easily be modified for any classroom. History Globe- Anglo Apache Conflicts The Mississippian Moundbuilders - At a time when Europe was plunged into the Dark Ages and crusaders fought holy wars to gain Jerusalem for the Church, a Native American culture thrived in what is now the Midwest and Southeast United States. These Native Americans are known today as the Mississippian Moundbuilders. Find lots of artifacts here.
Stereotyping Of Native Americans This section provides teachers with ways that native americans are stereotyped.It also gives ideas on how to teach more effectively about native americans. http://www.unr.edu/nnap/NT/i-8_9.htm
Extractions: Stereotyping of Native Americans Native Americans have long been the subject of educators, particularly at Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, the study of Native Americans has been stereotypical and has contributed to children not understanding about diverse cultures. This section provides teachers with ways that Native Americans are stereotyped. It also gives ideas on how to teach more effectively about native Americans. Many children hear the words "Indian" or "Native American" and picture a stereotypical image: These images do not present children with an accurate portrayal of Native people. Their diversity would take years to study and, even then would not be covered entirely. For this reason, it is important that teachers study about Native Americans in a way that allows children to see the diversity and uniqueness of the individual tribes. The following checklist was developed by the Council on Interracial Books for Children. It is included to provide teachers with some helpful suggestions when teaching about Native Americans.
Tolerance.org Teaching Tolerance Study Native Americans Make Feb. 9, 2005 Researchers with the Harvard Project on American Indian EconomicDevelopment conclude that native americans have secured key socioeconomic http://www.tolerance.org/teach/current/event.jsp?cid=586
TALK Activities | Native Americans Students will research native American Tribes as part of a Social Studies unit.They will research the following topics about their tribe http://teach.fcps.net/talk/lesson_display.asp?lessonID=79
Reaching Native Americans However, to have the opportunity to teach native americans, Extension must firstreach them. This article describes several strategies that Extension http://www.joe.org/joe/1993spring/a7.html
Extractions: Extension agents often feel frustrated when Native American clientele don't respond as other clientele to their programming efforts. Some believe programming must be approached differently, while others claim regular types of programming can be done. My experiences on the Navajo reservation suggest it's difficult to generalize because Native Americans are unique as individuals and in their tribal cultural heritage. So, educational programming should differ from tribe to tribe and from community to community. However, to have the opportunity to teach Native Americans, Extension must first reach them. This article describes several strategies that Extension faculty can use to achieve success in teaching and programming for Native American clientele. Some of these strategies may also apply to Extension programming with other diverse groups. Building Trust Adamcin said of her work with low-income, culturally diverse people in South Tucson that, "Prevention programs and those that target low income must rely on acceptance by the community we wish to serve. Trust must exist between agencies and clientele."1 The same attitude applies to working with Native Americans and probably many other culturally diverse groups. Recognizing contributions of clientele, being willing to become part of their lives, and working with them are ways to develop trust. Agents may initially have to be "unproductive" in terms of traditional programming to nurture a trusting relationship.
Native Americans And Children's Literature Teaching PreK8 Magazine. Subscribe now for only $12.00 (US rate). Put photographsand prints of native americans today and yesterday on the bulletin http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/nativeamericans.html
Extractions: The Next Harry Potter!! 43% off!! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Order today from Amazon.com!! The Next Harry Potter!! 43% off!! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Order today from Amazon.com!! You can help fund this site at no cost to you! If you shop at Amazon.com bookstore use This Page each time you enter Amazon.com. More information Teaching PreK-8 Magazine Subscribe now for only $12.00 (US rate). Any editions listed to the right (such as "paperback") will link you to Amazon.com Bookstore where you can purchase the title. Search Amazon.com The study of Native American people and their cultures is a challenge because of the stereotypes that exist, not only in the literature, but in our own minds and in those of the children we teach. Not long ago I was working with children in a school on the east coast and told them I had just come from working with Indian children in North Dakota. They were sure I was telling another story since, they said, "There aren't any more Indians. We killed them all." Hard to believe such things in today's world of television and world wide communication, but I'm sure these children were not unique in their ignorance. Many studies of Indians leave students convinced that all Indians lived in tepees then and still do or that they were all wiped out, not that our ancestors didn't try.
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education Urbana IL. Teaching Young Children about Native Americans. ERIC Digest. STEREOTYPES CHILDREN SEE Many popular children's authors unwittingly perpetuate stereotypes. Richard Scarry's books frequently contain illustrations of animals dressed in buckskin and feathers, while Mercer Mayer's alphabet book includes an alligator dressed as an Indian. Both authors present a dehumanized image, in which anyone or anything can become Native American simply by putting on certain clothes. TEN LITTLE RABBITS, although beautifully illustrated, dehumanizes Native Americans by turning them into objects for counting. BROTHER EAGLE, SISTER SKY (Harris, 1993) contains a speech delivered by Chief Seattle of the Squamish tribe in the northwestern United States. However, Susan Jeffers' illustrations are of the Plains Indians, and include fringed buckskin clothes and teepees, rather than Squamish clothing and homes. AN ACCURATE PICTURE OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE 1990s Native Americans make up less than one percent of the total U.S. population but represent half the languages and cultures in the nation. The term "Native American" includes over 500 different groups and reflects great diversity of geographic location, language, socioeconomic conditions, school experience, and retention of traditional spiritual and cultural practices. However, most of the commercially prepared teaching materials available present a generalized image of Native American people with little or no regard for differences that exist from tribe to tribe.
Table Of Contents Teaching and Learning with native americans. Understanding native americans and Strategies for Teaching native americans. Contrasting Values http://literacynet.org/lp/namericans/contents.html
Extractions: Introduction Teaching and Learning with Native Americans Understanding Native Americans and Acculturation Culturally Relevant Curriculum Strategies for Teaching Native Americans Contrasting Values A Model for Understanding Cultural Group Identity and Behavior Patterns Healing Process A Model for Understanding Navajo Attitudes Cultural Concepts and Lessons Cultural Awareness Enrollment and Census Populations of Arizona Indian Reservations Tribal Service Delivery Area
Native American Lesson Plans and not the real life of the native American, I teach this unit.. nativeAmericans Students select a native american nation and research its culture. http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/history/native/
Extractions: 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 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 - "Students will learn that many years ago there were many different Indian tribes who lived in America, and depended on the land for food, shelter and clothing." Native Americans - "To introduce children to the culture of a variety of Native American tribes through literature and related activities."
Wiget Essay: Teaching The American Literatures In addressing the issue of teaching native American literature, I want to focus my When we teach native American (or Japanese or Yoruba) literature, http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/essays/native_am.html
Extractions: In addressing the issue of teaching Native American literature, I want to focus my attention on a single text, one that most teachers and students find very difficult: the Zuni Talk Concerning the First Beginning. [1, 26-40] This is a key text for a number of reasons: as a mythological text, it opens the entire question of worldview; as a transcription of an oral text, it raises all the aesthetic questions associated with oral performance and transcription; and as a foundational text, it establishes a framework for a subsequent exploration of another Zuni text, Sayatasha's Night Chant, [1, 2644-63] and for useful comparisons with foundational European texts of encounter. I would also like to call the reader's attention to a stimulating article by Jeanne Holland in a recent issue of the CEA Critic and respond to some of the issues she confronted in her attempts at teaching Native American literature from the Heath Anthology.
Extractions: Native Americans My second graders also study Native Americans. We focus mainly on Eastern Woodlands Indians (since were from NJ), and I break the kids up according to their interests. The groups come up with questions according to their interests, and then do modified "research" by reading books. The students write down a few facts that help in answering their questions, and then they ... source
Lesson Plans For Teaching About Native Americans Lesson plans and books for teaching about Southwest, Northwest, Plains, Northeast,Southeast, and Alaska native americans. http://www.americanpentimento.com/KornerUS.htm
NATIVE AMERICANS - A RESOURCE LIST native americans in Books for the Young. In V. Harris (Ed.) Teaching MulticulturalLiterature in (1996) Teaching Young Children about native americans. http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ChildrenLit/nalist.html
Extractions: Developed by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza Children's Literature Page RF - Realistic Fiction; HF - Historical Fiction; NF - Nonfiction; P - Poetry; TL - Traditional Literature; B - Biography; AB - Autobiography; E - Elementary; M - Middle School; YA - Young Adult Alexie, Sherman. (1994) Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven . New York: Harperperennial. (RF - YA) Allen, Paula Gunn. (2001) As Long As the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans . New York: Scholastic (B - E/M) Ancona, George. (1993) Powwow . San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. (NF - All ages) Ancona, George. (1995). Earth Daughter: Alicia of Acoma Pueblo . Macmillan. (NF - All ages) Andrews, Jan. (1998). Very Last First Time . Aladdin (NF - All ages). Archuleta, Margaret L., Brenda J. Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. (2000) Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences . Phoenix: The Heard Museum. (NF - YA) Braine, Susan. (1995).
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 American Cultures - Main Page THE site for links and informationexploring native American Cultures; A listof howand how notto teach about native peoples in the classroom. http://www.ewebtribe.com/NACulture/
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