American Indians

1. American Indians Teaching Implications

2. Perry Castañeda Library Map collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html#exploration.html • Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stock -Eastern UShttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states/early_indian_east.jpg • Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stock -Western US http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states/early_indian_west.jpg • Early Indian Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stock -Alaska http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states/early_indian_alaska.jpg

3. Key Concepts for the Inclusion of Native American content in the Multicultural curriculum • A mainstream-centric curriculum design ignores the ethnic, cultural, and racial groups, their languages and religions, highlighting stereotypes and negative attitudes towards groups. Thus an approach to the study of native America must • include a native view stressing the grandeur of aboriginal civilizations • highlight the diversity and cultural traditions of modern native Americans;

4. A major goal of cross-curricular content is to develop critical thinking and gain a different perspective to the study of native Americans by • helping students understand key events, concepts, and issued from the native American perspective • Including thematic units on cultural traditions, cultural diversities and similarities (food, housing, government, family, religion, traditions, economy) • Integrating native American literature and the study of literary works by representative Native Americans to obtain a trustful understanding of the culture and traditions of this group.

5. Resources for inclusion of Native American culture in the classsroom • Center for World Indigenous Studies http://www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html#namerica • Native American Collaborative Unit:http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Native.htm • The trail on which they went: http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade5/Trail_Wept.html