Opportunity to Improve Indian Curriculum Standards in Public School
OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE INDIAN CURRICULUM STANDARDS IN PUBLIC SCHOOL
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Dallas Public Schools is revising its curriculum standards. The American Indian Education Program is getting a chance to provide more information into the Social Studies content which will include government, economics, and few more areas. We are also proposing a new resource handbook for teachers to supplement the standards and we have received an okay. I am listing various topics that will be included at the elementary level, middle level, and high level. We already have lots of the usual materials on many of the topics. But we wanted to offer you the opportunity to add - if you happened to have articles, photos, sketches, etc that could add to the topics. If we use your materials, we will listed you as a contributor. If you happened to see a topic(s) that should be included and we have overlooked it, please give us the opportunity to consider it.
Elementary School:
Thanksgiving - contribution by American Indians;
Tribal chiefs - duties Wilma Mankiller;
American Indian legends - moral, coyote,turtle, rabbit;
Squanto - Thanksgiving, Massasoit - Thanksgiving, Sacajawea, Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull;
Land Ownership - concept among American Indians and Europeans; Sam
Houston and American Indians> Decline of populations - graphs; > Joseph Brant; > Trail of Tears; > Fighting tactics - British v American Indians; > Five Civilized Tribes - Civil War effects
> Sequoya> Osceola; > John Ross; > Tecumseh; > Black Hawk; > Red Cloud; > Boarding School - American Indian children
> Sarah 'Winnemucca; > Issues - encroachment on sacred sites, pollution, health, logging, > etc.; > Demands on natural resources, minerals, timber--it effects on tribal > lands; Runways enslaved Africans - Florida Effects on railroad on Plains > Indians Ben Nighthorse Campbell Paintings by early Europeans, Catlin, >
Remington, etc.; Early, early American Indian women leaders
Middle School: > Mission System in Texas - Goals and effects on Texas Indians; > Sam Houston/Mirabeau B. Lamar - Indian policies in Republic of Texas; > Relocation to Indian Terrioty Treaty of Medicine Lodge (1867); > Resolutions of the Indian Peace Commission Quanah Parker - life and reactionto Treaty of Medicine Lodge (1867) ;Sovereignty> Sovereignty; > Tigua John Harrinton - NASA Barb wire - effects on Texas Indians Land Ownership; Joseph Brant Cornplanter American Resolution - effects on > American Indians War of 1812 - effects on American Indians Legal actions before Five Civilized Tribes are removed to Oklahoma Elias Boudinot John Ross Civil War - effects while war in progress, warfare in the West Texas American; Iroquois League - government Cherokee Nation v. Georgia; Worcester v. Georgia Tecumseh European technology - products and effects; Black Seminole.
High School: Reservation - conditions created by Indian policies passed by Federal Government; Current Issues - sovereignty, gaming, environmental concerns, unemployment. etc. American Indian Movement - effectes on reservation (those who live on or off the reservation); Civil Rights Act (1969) - Bill of Rights Alcatraz Island - takeover Bureau of Indian Affairs - > takeover by AIM Wounded Knee - takeover by AIM Map of tribal lands 1860 v. today U.S. borders - migratory routes between two countries e.g.,> U.S. V Canada, U.S. v Mexico Sacred Sites - encroachment Navajo Code talkers - World War II; Code Talkers - World War I Ira Hayes; Will Rogers.We haven't listed all of the topics. Any materials we receive will be used in a supplement resource handbook which will accompany the revised > standards to be given to all social studies teachers in the district after they have received a training. Of course, if we use your materials, we will list you as a contributors. Not all topics have been listed. If you happened to see that we have overlooked important topics, please let us know. We are running on a short deadline - June 1, 2000. We are always saying there isn't enough information about American Indians in history, social studies, etc. Dallas has given us a chance - you can help me out. I want good information, accurate information to be included. Thanks.
Peggy Larney, Full Blood Choctaw, Program Manager;
American Indian Education Program
Dallas Public Schools
5000 South Malcolm X Blvd., Rm 203
Dallas, Texas 75215; 972-749-2611
(phone) > 972-749-2592 (fax)
plarney@dallasisd.org
