Teacher Resources for 2009

Native American Arts | Mexican Masks | Civil Rights | World Percussion | Nanticoke Storytellers and Dance

Native American Arts

Museum Websites of Native American Cultures

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, the gallery dedicated to the display of Native American art.
• You can search the Smithsonian collection of photographs and the Library of Congress with special attention to Edward S. Curtis and at Northwestern University.
• Photos can be searched by topic.
• University of Wyoming also has a photo archive of the Crow Indians by Richard Throssel (Your browser must allow pop-ups.)
• The National Museum of the American Indian, a Smithsonian web site allows you to search for items.
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History has succinct descriptions of aspects of life in four distinct tribal areas - In the northwest, the Tlingit; in the southwest, the Pueblo people (including the Hopi); in the northeast, the Iroquois; in the west, the Lakota.
• California Native American Baskets on the Mark Sublette website
• Native American arts and technology: Indigenous ethno-technology

Web resources: a search for stories

• Indian Legends website has stories shared by multiple nations.
• Native American Links has an index of additional resources. At this site you can view Joe Zeller’s Native American images. You can search the Native American gallery, research groups and visit the River Trading Post to hear an artist/maker of Kachinas talk about their meaning.
• The Indigenous People website tells a Hopi story about the courting of a maiden and the children of the noisy mockingbird who won with the contest to make the dawn appear with the help of his friend the great Thunderbird.
• Coyote Brings Fire: Native American - Karok, retold by Oban
• Native American poetry and stories
  

Inuit Stories

• The Hunter and the Polar Bear
• Crow Brings the Daylight
• Online texts of Inuit folktales lists many stories which can be linked to including
• The Maid of the Mist: a tale of the maiden who lived behind Niagara Falls, and
• The First Tears: an Inuit tale about the origins of tears. (Alaska)

Apache (related to Navajo linguistically)

• The Apache Tribal Nation site
• Remembering the Great Chiefs on Native Radio website.
• Histories of Cochise and Geronimo on the Desert USA website.

Cherokee and Sioux

• Cherokee Museum Collection of historical information and links on the tribe
• Cherokee History: Trail of Tears
• Cherokee History in North Georgia Before being betrayed by Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia, the sovereign Cherokee Nation controlled almost all of North Georgia.
• Cherokee and Sioux Nations
• Lakota Sioux

Iroquois

• Iroquois: History and culture of the Seneca, one of five tribes of the Iroquois Nation.
• Iroquois History
• Iroquois Museum: official Seneca website
• New York State Museum: Iroquois Village
• All About the Iroquois Nation: Artifacts
• Seneca Nation Website
• Seneca-Iroqouis National Museum
• Oneida Nation Museum in Wisconsin: Iroquois Basketry

Navajo

• Explore the Navajo Nation
• Navajo Website
• Navajo Code Talkers

Pueblo People [Including the Hopi]

• Explore the Hopi people.
• Northern Arizona University website: images of the Colorado plateau with many Hopi images.
• Indian Pueblo Cultural Center represents 19 Pueblos of New Mexico: Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, Pojoaque, Sandia, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesque, Zia, Zuni.
• Kachina images collected by Joseph Kriss and donated to the museum in flagstaff Arizona
• Carnegie Mellon Hopi Website: Katsinas
• New Mexico Tourism Board

Other Native Americans

• The Delaware, the Lenni Lenape
• Making Penobscot corn husk dolls
• Nanticoke Indians
• Pow-Wow Dances
• Narragansett Tribe
• Paiute
• Northwest Coast Native Art
• West Coast Tribal Masks
• Northwest Coast Native Art

Native American Lessons

• Native American Activities - Online Indian Games, Indian Names, etc.
• Free Native American activities for kids. A collection of online Indian games, Lessons, Poetry, for first through fifth graders.
• KidsKonnect has homework and educational help - a safe Internet gateway for kids created and maintained by educators to search for Native Americans
• EDSITEment - Lesson Plan: The term 'Native American' includes over 500 different groups and reflects great diversity of geographic location, language, socioeconomic conditions, and retention of traditional spiritual and cultural practices. Offers links to access Web pages and a list of appropriate books.
• Native American Lessons With membership you can search listings at lessonplanet.com
• Native American Symbols - researching meaning of symbols at the American Indian Store -- Futures for Children
• Native American Designs

TV, Films, Books

• The American Experience and the web companion to the PBS history series includes features on a range of Native Americans and events in American history.
• The American Experience archives also have biographies of important Native American Leaders such as Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and historic events such as Custer’s defeat: The Last Stand At Little Big Horn.
• The Turner-Pictures movie "Tecumseh, The Last Warrior" is based on James Alexander Thom's book, Panther in the Sky.
  
• First Nation’s Histories can be searched.
• Oyate Website: books for pre-school and older.
• From Navaho Folk Tales by Franc Johnson Newcomb, Wheelwright Museum, and Karen Strom.
• Index of Native American Resources: A discussion based on the River Junction Curly version of the Blessingway story as found in Blessingway by Leland C. Wyman and Diné bahané by Paul G. Zolbrod copyright 1984 Paul G. Zolbrod, University of New Mexico Press.
• Storytellers: Native American Authors Online: a self-governed listing of poets and authors.
• Full Circle Videos: Native American Art, Cultures, and Music and Written Heritage Books, Magazines, Etc. offers "Into the Circle": an hour-long video introduction to the powwow and dance styles, featuring interviews with elders, dancers, and singers. Includes photographs and "eyewitness accounts" to offer historical perspective. Also a 30-minute DVD, "Jingle Dress" for $19.95 and much more.
• Wacipi Powwow Teacher’s Guide from the Minnesota Centuries Video and Teacher's Guide Series including Jingle Dancing (related to production of Wacipi powwow documentary). Photo with one of the traditional stories and discussion of dance style.

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Mexican Masks

• Mexican Masks from Guerrero. A terrific site with images and information on mask traditions in Guerrero.
• Mask Arts of Mexico. The University of Arizona has a strong collection of masks.
• Images of masks and other arts.
• Dance Masks from Mexico.
• Mexico and Guatemala Masks
• The Mask Monger has terrific illustrations.
• Target has sponsored a terrific site Latino Artistic Expression an educational resource guide for teachers. This is based on a PBS documentary Visiones: Latino Arts and Culture, produced by the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture.
• Dances and their Masks
  • University of Veracruz
  • University of Arizona
  • Folklorico.com
    
  • Alegría - Folklórico Méxicana
  • Aztec Dance
  • Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Nueva York is a non-profit organization that makes available its rehearsals and classes to anyone interested in learning and performing Mexican folkloric dance.
• Books
  • Cordry's Mexican Masks
  • Maschere del Messico
  • Moya's The Other Face of Mexico
  • Esser's Behind the Mask in Mexico
  • Children’s Book: Mexico The Culture, A Bobbie Kalman Book and Mexico from A to Z Bobbie Kalman and Jane Lewis, Crabtree Press.

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Civil Rights

Website Resources

• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute The museum's Complete Collections Guide is a treasure trove of letters, photos, press clippings, and pamphlets: a literal scrapbook of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s. The museum houses the 56 Alabamian oral histories recorded by Duke University's "Behind the Veil" researchers, as well as 300 interviews from its own oral history project that are available in audio, video, and transcript form.
• Behind the Veil - Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
• Civil Rights Documentation Project - The University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage showcases Tougaloo College's collection of approximately 40 oral histories. The site also includes a timeline with audio.
  
• Separate is not Equal, from the Smithsonian, National Museum of American History
  
• PBS Eyes on the Prize - this website complements a seven part DVD
• Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute
• Voices of Civil Rights - This site is a joint project of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress. Lists organizations that maintain oral history collections related to civil rights. Most
  of the collections are available online.
• ThinkQuest offers imagined interviews of important figures in the Civil Right Movement and timelines.
• National Civil Rights Museum - teacher resources

Student Bibliography

• Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. David McKay Company, 1962. This book recounts the struggle of the pioneers in desegregation in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957.
• Beals, Melba. Warriors Don’t Cry. New York: Pocket Books, 1964. This is a soul searching memoir by one of the Little Rock Nine.
• Coles, Robert. Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear. Boston: Little Brown and Company. 1965. This book gives details from a long term study of how children handled the onset of desegregation of schools.
• Friese, Kai. Rosa Parks and The Movement Organize. New Jersey: Simon and Schuster, 1990. This book is a biographical sketch of Ms. Parks. It focuses on that fateful day in Montgomery when she refused to give up her seat on the bus.
• Hampton, Henry and Steve Fayer. Voices of Freedom. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. This book highlights personal accounts of the civil rights movement.
  

Find images

• Smithsonian - with all deliberate speed
• Smithsonian - Eisenhower ordered escort Little Rock
• Smithsonian - Greensboro NC Woolworth lunch counter
• Smithsonian _ SNCC One Man One Vote poster

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World Percussion

• Resources to come soon.

Nanticoke Storytellers and Dance

• Nanticoke Indians

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