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.
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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: 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: Karen Rasmussen is Associate Professor and Craig R. Smith is Professor of Speech Communication and Director of the Center for First Amendment Studies at California State University, Long Beach. This article is based on a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association in San Antonio in November, 1995. The article has been published in the 1997 Free Speech Yearbook (SCA: Washington, D.C., 1998) Native Americans and Religious Freedom: The Supreme Court's Prioritizing of Free Exercise In a string of rulings starting in 1977 with Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip , the Supreme Court has denied First Amendment protection to Native American religious practices established long before the colonization of the United States. Similar rulings have allowed infringement on sacred sites. For example, in Sequoyah v. Tennessee Valley Authority
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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: 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: Profile Beliefs Groups Native Americans and Christianity ... Bibliography The diversity of American Indian tribes precludes a comprehensive examination of their religions and their belief systems. Anthropologists have compiled a huge trove of information detailing practices and beliefs of many different groups; this information remains isolated from popular culture. While there is a proliferation of popularized versions of Native American spirituality, these are often not the products of the tribes or their members. The beliefs and practices of many groups are sectarian derivatives of other native groups, and there is also a significant infusion of Christianity, and more recently, New Age beliefs and practices permeating these traditional beliefs. The origins of contemporary Native American religion, and that of their recent ancestors, can be traced back 30,000 to 60,000 years with the arrival of the first groups of people from northeast Asia. The religion of Native Americans has developed from the hunting taboos, animal ceremonialism, beliefs in spirits, and shamanism embraced by those early ancestors (Hultkrantz, 3, 12). Since these peoples settled in America slowly and in small groups over several thousand years, we still lack precise immigration knowledge. Beyond the directly inherited traditional Native American religions, a wide body of modified sects abounds. The Native American Church claims a membership of 250,000, which would constitute the largest of the Native American religious organizations. Though the church traces the sacramental use of the peyote cactus back ten thousand years, the Native American Church was only founded in 1918. Well into the reservation era, this organization was achieved with the help of a Smithsonian Institute anthropologist. The church incorporates generic Native American religious rites, Christianity, and the use of the peyote plant. The modern peyote ritual is comprised of four parts: praying, singing, eating peyote, and quietly contemplating (Smith, 167-173; Anderson, 41).
