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DIRECTIONS FOR ACTIVITY #7

For this activity, please complete all four parts in order and then upload to the drop box.

PART I: Watch the video on Indian boarding schools. The link is in Angel and also here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOe-x1aUP2o

Then, answer the following questions in at least 3-4 sentences for each bulleted point.

Consider what you have just viewed from the Native American perspective, respond to the following:

· How is the information about boarding schools connected to what you already knew?

· What information did you learn that that extended or broadened your thinking in new directions?

· What are at least TWO specific challenges did the Native American children have from having to attend these schools?

· Discuss the concept of “assimilation” of the Native American from the perspective of the American government.

· Explain the concept of “Survivors’ Syndrome” and how it affected students who attended the boarding schools.

PART II: Compare and contrast the following two photos below by responding to each prompt.

Pictures copied from: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/gallery.htm

PICTURE #1

· What do you see?

· What do you think is going on?

· What does it make you wonder?

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Apache children on arrival at the Carlisle Indian School (Pennsylvania) wearing traditional clothing.

PICTURE #2

· What do you see?

· What do you think is going on?

· What does it make you wonder?

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Apache children at the school four months later.

PART III: INDIAN EDUCATION TODAY

Go to the following website at: http://www.bia.gov/WhatWeDo/ServiceOverview/IndianEducation/index.htm

Explain three major policy changes in Native American education since 1921.

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2.

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PART IV: SEMINOLES IN FLORIDA (the only tribe in America that never signed a peace treaty)

Go to the following website at: http://www.semtribe.com/SeminoleTribune/Archive/40anniversary/interviews.html

Choose one person to read and learn more about.

Who did you choose?

What are three interesting facts you learned?