Lecture One: World View of Native Americans and how it is reflected in all aspects of life.
Listening: "Flag Song" (Red Hawk Singers), "Mourning Song" (Windamakwi) , and "Nipahuma"
(Jim Beer and the River)
Viewing: Black Elk's Story of the Great Circle
Lecture Two: All our relations, Part 1: Animals
Discussion: The importance of animals/clan symbols. Handouts: Seneca Clan Symbols, Quillwork, Wolf Packet
Listening: “Firefly Song”, “Eagle's Cry”, and “Wolf Song", Humming Bird Song"
Viewing: Artifacts/Photos/Artwork: Our Animal relations; Videos: Eagle Dance, Rabbit Dance, Crow Hop
Photos: Animal themes in arts and crafts/quill work
Reading: Dickon Among the Lenapes Chapters 1 and 2;
Storytelling: Meesink Story
Lecture Three: All Our Relations, Part II: People/Social Structure
Listening: Lakota Lullaby , Love Song , Chumash Song For the Grandmothers , Lakota Grandfather Song
Viewing: Artifacts/Photos/Artwork: Family and Culture; Video: Lakota Culture 103: Cultural Comparisons Parts One & Two
Reading: Ch 3&4: "Dickon"
Lecture Four: All Our Relations, Part III: Plants/Rocks/Elements
Listening: "Passamaquoddy Wind Song" ; "Cherokee Rain Dance Song"; "Navajo Fire Dance" ; "Mother Earth Song - Seven Cedars Drum"
Viewing: Artifacts/Artwork: Medicinal Herbs; "The Elders Speak" Parts 1, 2, 3 ; Navajo Sand paintings by Fred Stevens Jr.
Reading: "Dickon" Ch 5&6
Lenape Creation Story ; Grandfather Thunder
More resources:
Whirling Logs ; The Sky People ; The Four Mountains ; Father Sky and Mother Earth ; Big Thunder
Lecture Five: Ceremonies
The Drum
Name Giving Ceremony
Thanksgiving Address
Marriage Ceremony
Big House Ceremony
Ceremonial Wampum
Listening: "Heartbeat Drum Song" ; "Lakota Pipe-Filling Song" ; "Peyote Healing Song"
"Corn Dance Song"
Viewing: Artifacts/Photos/Artwork 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Ceremonial/Drums; Red Hawk Singers: "Children of the Earth" (VHS)
"The Wisdom Keepers" Part 2 ; 3 ; "Sitting Bull's Sun Dance"
Reading: "Dickon" Ch 7&8
Lecture Six: Sacred Sites/Petroglyphs/Language/Place names "Protection of Native American Sacred Sites"
Listening: "The Circle Stone/Sacred Mountain" ; "Songs of Cante Tenza"
Viewing: Artifacts/Photos: cairns, effigies, geoglyphs, rock art, stone circles, stone huts
Artwork: Sacred Sites/Petroglyphs; "American Indian Rock Art" ; "Petroglyphs of Pennsylvania": Part II
The Cherokee Language ; "Rally to Protect Bear Butte ; "Indian Mound Builders"
Reading: "Dickon" Ch 9&10
Lecture Seven: Games/leisure activities
Listening: "Native American Musical Instruments" ; Bone Game Song ; stick games songs
Viewing: Artifacts/Photos: Leisure Activities; Lahal: Bone Game; "Native Americans in Today's Lacross Game" ; "Choctaw Stickball" ; "Woven by the Grandmothers" ; Native Hands Game ; information on Native Hands Game
Reading: "Dickon" Ch 11&12
Lenape Football(Pahsaheman)
Lecture Eight: Native Americans Today/The Journey From Past to Present
Listening: "The River"
Viewing: Artifacts/Photos/Artwork: Hiding Times; ; "Navajo Code Talkers" ; "Indian Boarding Schools" ; "The Fourth Crow Prophesy";
Poverty USA - Native Americans ; Bad Sugar: Diabeties and Water Rights in Arizona ; Vanguard Series Parts 1 , 2 ,
"We Have Survived: A Native American
Perspective in the 12st Century."
Reading: "Dickon" Ch 13&14 ; Ch 15&16
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