Every time I come across an interesting article or resource, I copy the URL and put it in a file to share some day. Today's the day, at least for articles on the topic of Indian history, culture, and law.
Note: these are NOT lesson plans--but they could be the basis for lessons and they certainly give food for thought. For actual lessons, I encourage you to check out the classroom resources created by OPI's Indian Education division, the National Museum of the American Indian, or MHS's own IEFA lesson plan web page.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes has produced a remarkable 28 minute video called In the Spirit of Atatice: The Untold Story of the National Bison Range, which tells how the bison returned to the Flathead reservation (and discusses the tribes' conflicts the National Bison Range).
PBS broadcast the 27 minute video, Before There Were Parks: Yellowstone and Glacier through Native Eyes in 2009, so I don't know why I just learned about it, but luckily for me it is still available to stream. "This program explores modern indigenous perspectives on these great wilderness areas," Yellowstone and Glacier, which for "more than 12,000 years, the intermountain West's native peoples have called ... home."
The Native American Rights Fund has a rich website dedicated to Indian law and contemporary tribal legal issues. I found their website when I was looking for information on the voting rights case in North Dakota and discovered a blog that included articles and videos on topics including civil rights (voting rights, juries, census), development of Indian law (legislative actions), environmental protection (climate change), federal recognition of tribal status, human rights (violence against women, mascots, boarding school healing), hunting and fishing rights, religious rights (religious freedom, sacred places, repatriation), and tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction. This is not a neutral site; the material has a defined point of view--but it's a point of view worth exploring.
A landmark case recently decided by the Supreme Court is Herrera v. Wyoming. The ruling found that finding that the Crow Tribe’s right to hunt, as set out in the 1898 Fort Laramie Treaty, survived Wyoming’s statehood. there's been a lot written on this, but one place to start is this article published in Mountain West News, not least because it has links to more detailed stories.Note: these are NOT lesson plans--but they could be the basis for lessons and they certainly give food for thought. For actual lessons, I encourage you to check out the classroom resources created by OPI's Indian Education division, the National Museum of the American Indian, or MHS's own IEFA lesson plan web page.
Videos Worth Watching and Sharing
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes has produced a remarkable 28 minute video called In the Spirit of Atatice: The Untold Story of the National Bison Range, which tells how the bison returned to the Flathead reservation (and discusses the tribes' conflicts the National Bison Range).
PBS broadcast the 27 minute video, Before There Were Parks: Yellowstone and Glacier through Native Eyes in 2009, so I don't know why I just learned about it, but luckily for me it is still available to stream. "This program explores modern indigenous perspectives on these great wilderness areas," Yellowstone and Glacier, which for "more than 12,000 years, the intermountain West's native peoples have called ... home."
Treaty Rights and Voting Rights (Plus Geography)
The Native American Rights Fund has a rich website dedicated to Indian law and contemporary tribal legal issues. I found their website when I was looking for information on the voting rights case in North Dakota and discovered a blog that included articles and videos on topics including civil rights (voting rights, juries, census), development of Indian law (legislative actions), environmental protection (climate change), federal recognition of tribal status, human rights (violence against women, mascots, boarding school healing), hunting and fishing rights, religious rights (religious freedom, sacred places, repatriation), and tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction. This is not a neutral site; the material has a defined point of view--but it's a point of view worth exploring.
And speaking of the Crow tribe and Wyoming, check out "Before Wyoming: American Indian Geography and Trails," by Greg Nickerson on Wyohistory.org, which includes maps of trails and Crow, Lakota, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Omaha, Otoe, Ute, and Shoshone place names across Wyoming.
Halloween
Halloween is fast approaching--so this is a good time to remind students about the #CultureNotCostume movement, created to discourage students from wearing offensive costumes that make fun of, sexualize, or appropriate other people's cultures. Here's a quick primer. Many other resources exist on the internet.
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