In respect to Native American Heritage Month (every November since 1990) the Humanities Department have themed the lessons around Thanksgiving Week to allow us to think more deeply about Native American Heritage, and conduct some creative and collaborative learning.
This Weebly page will guide you through an investigation into Native American Civil Rights, and allow you to guide you and your group through some key historical questions.
This Weebly page will guide you through an investigation into Native American Civil Rights, and allow you to guide you and your group through some key historical questions.
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A few things to get you started.
Before you start your investigations, get familiar with some of the key terms and phrases that might help you understand the story of Native American Civil Rights, and give you an overview of the journey. |
FILL IN THE GAPS
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MIX AND MATCH
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Your task:
Using the media of your choosing (verbal presentation, video, PowerPoint, Web page), amd working in small groups (of your teachers choosing)! explore one or more of the key questions below. Using the information in the source packages that follow. Be prepared to explain your chosen route to a member of staff or peer at any time during the lesson(s). The three key questions are detailed below - maybe use the Padlet to note down some ideas, or read some of the ideas from other classes. |
DESCRIBE THE JOURNEY OF NATIVE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE PAST 50 YEARS
HAVE NATIVE AMERICANS HAD TO FIGHT HARDER FOR CIVIL RIGHTS THAN OTHER GROUPS?
DO NATIVE AMERICANS ENJOY FULL CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE USA TODAY?
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Your investigation:
Using the 5 packages of information found here, lead yourself and your group on a voyage of discovery across the sources. use them as your guide, but try and go further, and find out more than is held in these pages. |
NATIVE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS
A PRO-SEGREGATION RALLY AT LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. THEY ARE PROTESTING AGAINST THE INTEGRATION OF SCHOOLS, LIKE LITTLE ROCK HIGH SCHOOL
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT FROM THE BBC
LIST OF ALL NATIVE AMERICAN SENATORS SINCE 1789
THE CEREMONIAL SIGNING OF THE 1968 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
THE SEIGE AT WOUNDED KNEE
POSTER PUBLICISING THE EVENTS AT WOUNDED KNEE
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/occupy-wounded-knee-a-71-day-siege-and-a-forgotten-civil-rights-movement/263998/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY FROM WOUNDED KNEE 1
EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY FROM WOUNDED KNEE 2
A SCENE FROM THE SEIGE AT WOUNDED KNEE
THE OCCUPATION OF ALCATRAZ
THE PROCLAMATION, DETAILING THE OCCUPIERS DEMANDS FROM ALCATRAZ
MY FAMILY’S STORY BY JOE D. HORSE CAPTURE
THE OCCUPIERS' GRAFFITI ON ALCATRAZ SIGNAGE
A NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED BY THE FIRST GROUP OF NATIVE AMERICANS THAT OCCUPIED ALCATRAZ
THE REPRESENTATION OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN US SCHOOL HISTORY BOOKS
| history_in_the_making_1844.pdf |
1916. AS WAR RAGES IN EUROPE, THE TEXT BOOKS STILL GIVE A STEREOTYPED VIEW OF THE ‘NOBLE SAVAGE’.
| history_in_the_making_1916.pdf |
1927. A MORE BALANCED VIEW IS EMERGING, WITH AN IMPROVED REPRESENTATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN
| history_in_the_making_1927.pdf |
1961. THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OPENED THE EYES TO MANY IN THE US ABOUT THEIR MULTICULTURAL POPULATION
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1986. TRADITIONAL USE OF WORDS LIKE ‘SQUAW’, ‘SAVAGE’, AND ‘INDIAN’ ARE NOW NO LONGER USED. WOMEN ARE NOW REPRESENTED MORE FAIRLY, AND HISTORICAL HEARSAY HAS GIVEN WAY TO ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
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SUPPORTIVE HISTORICAL RESOURCES
LIST OF DEMANDS TO THE US GOVERNMENT
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PAMPHLET PUBLICISING THE JULY 1978 TRANSCONTINENTAL TREK FROM ALCATRAZ TO WASHINGTON DC
US DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR POSTER FROM 1911
AN IMAGE FROM THE END OF THE LONGEST WALK IN WASHINGTON DC, 1971
