Hey guys, what great ideas everyone has for classroom activities that have to do with Native Americans! I'm not originally from MT (really from CT) so hearing all about the history of our state last week in class was sooo interesting for me. I had a really hard time swallowing down the topic of boarding schools and 'assimilation', which was my topic on the presentations. I can't beleive we did that to these people! And to the innocent children! Sheesh. I absolutely loved hearing the presentation about the pow-wows and the different types of dancing that goes on. I will definately use that in my classroom someday...what a fun thing for kids to try! I think even bringing your class to an actual pow-wow would be SO great for them.
I also was very interested to learn about the different signs that the Native Americans used to show differing tribes. WOW! What a cool thing. I remember when i used to teach in CT and I had THREE legally deaf children in one of my classes. What a tough class to teach not knowing sign language.....I think that these students would have really enjoyed learning about the native american sign language and would also be sympathetic to the inaccuracies that occure between oral languange and sign language.... well, thats all for me now folks. I look forward to hear this weeks presentation. See you guys tomorrow....:) Katie
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Hi Katie. I liked seeing the signs for the names of Indian tribes, too, and I think it would be worthwhile for students to do the signs. They could work in pairs, with one student making the sign and the other saying what it means (then switch roles). See you Thursday!
Bonnie E.
I don't think that anyone is particularly happy with the way our gov't treated the indians. I think separating the families at such an age was horrible and I hope if they could change what they did they would.
TC Golden
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