American Literature-Native Americans by Briael Chadwell

3. American Passages

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Before class, take notes on timeline

Watch 30 minute video and complete questions.

2. Circle of Stories

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Read first page and take notes.

Click on Launch stories and listen to all stories.

4. Storytellers Then and Now

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After being assigned groups, read the two stories individually while annotating for common themes and types of stories.

Group 1: Luci Tapahonso and Louise Erdrich

Group 2: Leslie Marmon Silko and Simon J. Ortiz

Group 3: Black Elk and Ghost Dance Songs

Group 4: Stories of the Beginning of the World and the narratives of Roger Williams and Thomas Harriot

4. History Channel

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View the 14 videos and take notes

about Native American history.

1. Define Terms - Create a PADLET

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(1) Identify tribes and their regions.

*Shoshone, Iroquois, Cherokee, Ute, Seminole,

Algonquin, Chinook, Navajo, Apache, Chippewa,

Crow, Pueblo

(2) Identify 10 famous Native Americans.

(3) Define oral traditions and what it encompasses.

Helpful Link: http://biblescripture.net/Indians.html

5. Story Prezi Presentations

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Based on your readings, each person in the group must create a slide. Possible topics include tribal culture, heritage, symbolism, oral traditions, magic, survival, nature's cycles, adventures in love.

6. Final Project (individual)

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You must choose one of the three options to write about:

You are a United States congressperson in 1924, speaking in favor of the act to grant citizenship to American Indians. Using texts and cultural artifacts from at least three different communities, prepare a presentation for Congress using images as well as testimony on why American Indians deserve to be full citizens.

You are a spokesperson for a museum that has been asked to return to a local tribe the five-hundred-year-old human bones and burial objects in its collection. What will the museum do with these objects if they aren't returned? How should the museum present information about Native American cultures if it doesn't use the burial objects? Help design a new exhibit for the museum.

You are part of a team charged with composing a new American history textbook for high school students. You have been asked to provide a brief introduction of the effects of European colonialism on Native American culture (for an example see pages 3-4 in the textbook). How would you write such a sketch? Where would you want your reader to feel sympathy, anger, frustration, satisfaction? What is our current responsibility toward evaluating the actions of people in the past? Are the Europeans the bad guys? Are the Indians the good guys? Should our judgments be more complicated? Is there reason to believe any of us would have acted more ethically had we been alive four hundred years ago? Consider, as you write, that your audience will consist of readers from European as well as Indian backgrounds.

Padlet Links

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https://prezi.com/fe8q6upxewow

https://prezi.com/sx11vo2vhvhe/edit/?auth_key=l52319q&follow=cnvvs8sppvvd#19_24309637