ERIC/EECE. Publications. Digests. Teaching Young Children About Native Americans Teaching Young Children about native americans Young children's conceptions of native americans often develop out of media portrayals and classroom role playing of the events of the First Thanksgiving. native americans negatively, as uncivilized, simple, superstitious, bloodthirsty savages, or positively, as romanticized heroes living in harmony with nature http://ericeece.org/pubs/digests/1996/reese96.html
Extractions: May 1996 Young children's conceptions of Native Americans often develop out of media portrayals and classroom role playing of the events of the First Thanksgiving. The conception of Native Americans gained from such early exposure is both inaccurate and potentially damaging to others. For example, a visitor to a child care center heard a four-year-old saying, "Indians aren't people. They're all dead." This child had already acquired an inaccurate view of Native Americans, even though her classmates were children of many cultures, including a Native American child. Derman-Sparks ( ) asserts that by failing to challenge existing biases we allow children to adopt attitudes based on inaccuracies. Her book is a guide for developing curriculum materials that reflect cultural diversity. This digest seeks to build on this effort by focusing on teaching children in early childhood classrooms about Native Americans. Note that this digest, though it uses the term "Native American," recognizes and respects the common use of the term "American Indian" to describe the indigenous people of North America. While it is most accurate to use the tribal name when speaking of a specific tribe, there is no definitive preference for the use of "Native American" or "American Indian" among tribes or in the general literature.
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Extractions: Explore the fascinating ruins of a mysterious prehistoric Indian people while visiting five national monuments: Montezuma Castle, Wupatki, Tuzigoot, Walnut Canyon and Sunset Crater. Learn how the ancient Indian civilizations of the Sinagua and Anasazi developed, survived and expired in this hostile environment. The mysteriously rich heritage of an ancient civilization. Pottery making the old way is demonstrated in Hano village on First Mesa. Rare views over Hopi mesas, villages and Hopi ruins. This program covers the Anasazi, Spaniards, Nampeyo civilizations and pottery designs. Included is a segment on the evolution of Hopi pottery.
Extractions: This is Meelai A. Chows second year teaching third grade in P.S. 124 since completing her masters degree. Wei Yee Chan, the Multimedia Lab teacher, assisted with the technical aspects of the program. After seeing how excited students got in computer class, the need became apparent for the creation of an authentic opportunity for them to apply technology to what was being taught in class. The individual programs complemented and enriched each other. WHAT YOU NEED Trade books with ample illustrations and of various levels are necessary. To make the learning more concrete, a film strip or video and a trip to the Smithsonian Museum of Native Americans are encouraged. A multimedia Lab equipped with computer, KidPix, HyperStudio, and word-processing software is needed for the second part of the program.
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education Urbana IL. Teaching Young Children about Native Americans. ERIC Digest. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC STEREOTYPES CHILDREN SEE 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. TEACHING SUGGESTIONS POSITIVE STRATEGIES A number of positive strategies can be used in classrooms, regardless of whether Native American children are members of the class.
Extractions: The Native Americans live very close to Nature, in fact they consider themselves part of Nature. This vision enables them to live harmoniously in peace with Nature. We are one with Nature and can only live in peace when our actions are based on love and compassion for all living beings, including Nature. When we live in harmony with Nature we become more aware of the messages that are there for us. The Universe, or Great Spirit as the Native Americans call it, is here to guide and assist us in our lives. The Native Americans have many rituals to be in touch with their inner guidance. For them the 4 directions are related to a specific level of our being:
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Extractions: Return to Style Guide and Useful Writing Tips Homo Devastans Homo Devastans The grand invented tradition of American nature as a whole is the pristine wilderness, a succession of imagined environments which have been conceived as far more difficult for settlers to conquer than they were in reality... The ignoble savage... was invented to justify dispossession... and to prove that the Indian had no part in transforming America from Wilderness to Garden. Despite a plethora of evidence to the contrary (Kidder 1998), indigenous peoples are rarely recognized as active, determinant agents of environmental change or transformation. Usually, historical narratives present Native Americans as bystanders in the great colonial effort to recast the landscape in a suitable fashion for their continental tastes. References Cited 1998a Historical Ecology: Premises and Postulates. In Advances in Historical Ecology Advances in Historical Ecology . Columbia University Press, New York.
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Extractions: The Native Americans live very close to Nature, in fact they consider themselves part of Nature. This vision enables them to live harmoniously in peace with Nature. We are one with Nature and can only live in peace when our actions are based on love and compassion for all living beings, including Nature. When we live in harmony with Nature we become more aware of the messages that are there for us. The Universe, or Great Spirit as the Native Americans call it, is here to guide and assist us in our lives. The Native Americans have many rituals to be in touch with their inner guidance. For them the 4 directions are related to a specific level of our being:
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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.
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Extractions: During the past seven years, the number of Native American sites on the World Wide Web has grown as use of the Internet becomes more common. Many believe that the Internet is a logical step in the development of Indian communication. According to Zimmerman, Bruguier and Zimmerman, Native Americans have always relied on synthetic forms of communication, such as the smoke signals of some Plains groups, which offer a means to "preserve identity rather than break it down" (1997). Mark Trahant writes that the Internet is "like traditional oral and pictographic forms of communication" and therefore potentially indispensible to the Indian community (Arnold and Plymire 2000). In an effort to form a presence on the web, legitimate Native Americans have employed online technologies such as web sites, listserves and message boards, to provide valid information primarily to the Native American community, secondarily to the public at large. Before discussing Native American uses of the Internet, I would like to examine briefly the history behind the construction of modern Native American identity. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States adopted a "melting-pot" philosophy in response to the rapid rate of ethnic immigration. As a means to establish a singular national identity, one of the goals of the "melting pot" was the assimilation of the ethnic Other, a breaking down of "cultural and social diversity to develop 'patriot citizens'" (Hanson, 1997, p.196).
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Extractions: http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca/score/river/riversg2.html CyberGuide by Shirely List Today you will visit a Native American hamlet called Hobbamock's Homesite. Click on all of the links below, look at the pictures and read the information. Take notes on interesting facts about how these Native Americans lived so that they would not harm the animals, the river or the land around them. (Note: to return to your Student Guide from your internet site, just click on the box in the upper left side of your window)
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Extractions: Return to Style Guide and Useful Writing Tips Homo Devastans Homo Devastans The grand invented tradition of American nature as a whole is the pristine wilderness, a succession of imagined environments which have been conceived as far more difficult for settlers to conquer than they were in reality... The ignoble savage... was invented to justify dispossession... and to prove that the Indian had no part in transforming America from Wilderness to Garden. Despite a plethora of evidence to the contrary (Kidder 1998), indigenous peoples are rarely recognized as active, determinant agents of environmental change or transformation. Usually, historical narratives present Native Americans as bystanders in the great colonial effort to recast the landscape in a suitable fashion for their continental tastes. References Cited 1998a Historical Ecology: Premises and Postulates. In Advances in Historical Ecology Advances in Historical Ecology . Columbia University Press, New York.
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Extractions: people." NATIVE AMERICANS: WHAT WE WANT OTHERS TO KNOW ABOUT US by Sysop Liz Pollard While I was at the 64th annual American Indian Exposition this past week, I tried to reach as many individuals as I could to get their answers to one specific question to bring back for all of us. The question was this: What one special thing would you, as a Native American, like for the world community at large to know about you and your people? What is the most important thing you can tell them, in your opinion? I talked with children, adults, elders, people from all roles in life. Some were very acculturated and assimilated to modern American society, while others were very traditional in outlook. Some of the adults had college educations, some had not even gone to school. Most of the answers were very similar, regardless of the person's station in life, and they boiled down to the areas I will discuss below. FAMILY To Native Americans of any tribe, family is very important, not just the nuclear family most of us immediately think of, father, mother, and children, but all of one's relatives. This family is known to sociologists, ethnologists, and other scholars as the extended family, and among Native Americans it is very closely knit. Everything revolves around the extended family unit, and cousins are as close as brothers and sisters. For this reason, adoption is almost unheard of in Indian tribes. When a child is orphaned, someone in the extended family raises it as their own. Perhaps this stems from the fact that in aboriginal times, survival of the tribe as a group was all-important, and the family was the basic unit of the tribe. Perhaps it arises from other factors, but whatever the answer to this, it is a strong influence on their lives. RELIGION Native Americans are very religious people, whether they practice their own original religions or have been converted to Christianity or some other faith. It is very important to them to acknowledge and revere a higher power and follow its guidance. What that power is called is less important, but most tribes originally worshipped a single "god" and still do so. Although the practice of their religions varies widely, that one thread is present for all tribes, an all-powerful creator, a power that oversees all our actions, is our guardian and our guide. NATURE Nature was perhaps the single most important factor in the aboriginal life of Native Americans. They depended on the natural universe for every item they ate, wore, or used. Much of their religion is centered on the effort to explain the seemingly inexplicable in the natural universe. They lived in harmony with nature whenever possible, preserving its beauty and its wholeness. They killed no more than they had to have to survive, and in many tribes they even begged an animal's forgiveness before they killed it. Most felt that Earth was their mother, and they treated her with gentleness and still do. The earth nourished them, the air gave them breath, and the sun and rain encouraged life, so all four were sacred. The Creator provided all of nature for the good of all people, and it belonged to all of us in common. Most of them are still conservationists and environmentalists. Their present attitude towards nature is perhaps best represented by the bumper sticker displayed in many places: "Walk softly on Mother Earth." PRIDE OF ORIGIN This attitude is a little more difficult to explain, but Native Americans are proud to be what they are, even though they acknowledge that in some ways they are very different from other people. At the same time, they are proud of being human like everyone else. They value their heritage and traditions, but they also value what makes them part of the human race. One man said it this way, "We are a peculiar people, distinct to ourselves, but we are people." This man is a Christian, a minister in the Methodist church, yet he finds it important also to be an Indian. He values both parts of his heritage similarly, and he cares deeply about people of all races, creeds, and colors. An elderly woman told me, "We're just like you, but with skin of a different color." Perhaps that says it best. We are all human, and we all have differences we are proud of. The Native Americans are no different in this than we are! CONCLUSION Drawing on what these people told me last week as well as on my own experiences with Native Americans, I have to agree with everything I heard. Indians are people, just like we are, and most are fascinating and wonderful to know. They believe deeply in a higher power, in nature, and in family, and they care greatly about others. Their religions, ceremonies, and traditions are different from ours but no less meaningful. I think Elaine Miles put it in a nutshell very nicely in the conference on Tuesday, August 8, when she said, "We are a caring, giving, spiritual
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Extractions: I visited with Mr. Gil at his 12-acre nursery and wildlife sanctuary, Blisscapes, last spring to learn more about landscaping in harmony with nature. Located off the beaten path at 751 Potomska Road in South Dartmouth, the setting is marked by woodland, fields and ponds and embellishments that include a barn, stonework and a variety of bird houses and feeders.
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Extractions: The Superior Culture Nonetheless, native American culture was also wiped out at the same time and not until recent years, it had a chance to revive. Native American culture is not inferior to any other cultures, including Judeo-Christian white culture. There are indeed many differences between the two cultures, but one can never claim the other is inferior. Native American culture can be traced back into the Ice Age. It has a complete system of beliefs, languages, some races even have their own characters and written languages. In this paper we will discuss the differences between native American culture and Judeo-Christian white culture in three different aspects, nature, belief, and community. Native Americans believed that all creatures were equal while white Christians believed that mankind, especially white man, was superior to other nature. Also in the movie "Dance with Wolves,"(Costner) the wolf "two-socks" was a spiritual companion of Lieutenant Dunbar for a long time. As a white Christian solider, when he saw the wolf the first time, his intuition was to pick up the gun and shoot the wolf, but he didn’t. After several weeks together, they became "good friends," that’s how Lieutenant Dunbar was named "Dance with Wolves." Later in the movie, when the white soldiers captured him and shot at "two-socks," he risked his own life to protect the wolf. He had turned himself into a real Indian "Dance with Wolves." Even today, many white people still believe that they are superior to other races. Racism is still one of the biggest problems facing America.
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Extractions: At the time of French settlement in 1700, many Indian groups lived in Louisiana, which then encompassed the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast region. These groups ranged from small clans of hunters to large communities of farmers. Several Louisiana societies established extensive cultural and economic exchange networks and traded material goods, belief systems, language patterns, technology, and recreational practices with other native groups in North America and probably even in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, and later with European settlers. As in most Indian societies, Louisiana Indians carried out tasks defined along gender lines. Men ruled and defended the tribal communities and hunted and constructed buildings and canoes with tools they made. Women cared for children and the elderly, planted crops, and made clothes and utensils, which they used to prepare foods and decorate their homes and religious centers. One early French settler, Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz, observed that "most of the labour and fatigue falls to the share of the women," while Indian men had "a great deal of more spare time than the women."
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Extractions: Native Child has gathered helpful information to give you the tools for evaluating books, curriculum material and videos that are currently published and offered covering the topic. These resources can be used as guidelines in selecting culturally appropriate material. Stories about Contemporary Native Americans for Preschool and Kindergarten Classrooms by Debbie Reese Debbie is a doctoral student in early childhood education at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on multicultural literature. She is Pueblo Indian, from Nambe Pueblo in northern New Mexico. Links l ast update: 8.07.2000 Teaching Young Children about Native Americans Debbie Reese,May 1996 Debbie Reese is a Pueblo Indian who studies and works in the field of early childhood education.
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Extractions: Page 1 When I was ten years of age I looked at the and the rivers, the sky above, and the animals around me and could not fail to realize that they were made by some great power. Brave Buffalo, Sioux The fish and the game are the essence of my life. I was not brought here from a foreign country and did not come here. I was put here by the creator. Meninock, Yakima
