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Study Guide—PBS Documentary “Untold Stories” Mount Rushmore: Telling America’s Stories These questions are provided to help you focus on highlights for the next exam. You don’t have to turn in the answers. From the PBS “Untold Stories” view the following: Mount Rushmore: Telling America’s Stories AND read the PDF file. These video segments are approximately 1015 minutes in length. The “Untold Stories” Project focuses on engaging stories about the role of African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and the education of inner city youth to bring to light the contributions of individuals from these diverse groups and to address new and traditionally underserved audiences regarding the educational richness of the national parks. video: http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watchvideo/#642 Mount Rushmore: Telling America’s Stories—Video The land surrounding Mount Rushmore is sacred to millions of Native Americans. Who is the first Native American to serve as Superintendent of Mount Rushmore? In 1874 George Custer arrived as part of a scientific expedition to this area. What did the expedition find? What did the Superintendent feel was missing from the overall cultural story at Mount Rushmore? The Hoop Dance symbolizes the circle of ________. The Black ______ are considered a sacred land. The first year that the Superintendent arrived he added the Indian _____________. He noted that this was “extremely popular.” Interpreting all cultures in our National Parks is important, ultimately, to heal our nation and get rid of prejudice and ________________. The ultimate goal would be to have kids tell their parents they want to go to a national park. This could lead to people talking more about who they are and maybe in the future who they’re going to _____. Mount Rushmore: Telling America’s Stories—PDF File What famous battle took place (who was the General) on June 25, 1876? Why did the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians fight that day? What was the name of the treaty of 1868 and what Reservation did it establish? For how long had American Indians traveled through and hunted in the Black Hills? What happened in the fall of 1877 to the Lakotas and most of the Cheyennes? Who was the sculptor of Mount Rushmore? What men are portrayed on this colossal monument? What is something Borglum did in carving George Washington to extend the life of his sculpture? The National Park Service guarantees “the integrity of the sculpture for ________ years.” Why do American Indians not like the carvings on Mount Rushmore?
“At the same time, it is a monument to the best principals of our nation—democracy, _____________, enterprise—and each year millions of Americans are moved to tears when they visit.” Superintendent Gerard Baker brought more natives into the park—as visitors and __________. In what year did the park open its “Heritage Village” that helped visitors to learn more about Sioux culture? “The new interpretive policy at Mount Rushmore encourages programs reflective of _____ cultures in America.” “Pride in who we are, no matter what our _______________, is what Gerard believes Mount Rushmore is all about, and is the message he wants visitors to leave with.” Study Guide—PBS Documentary “Untold Stories” Yosemite’s Buffalo Soldiers These questions are provided to help you focus on highlights for the next exam. You don’t have to turn in the answers. From the PBS “Untold Stories” view the following: Yosemite’s Buffalo Soldiers AND read the PDF file. These video segments are approximately 1015 minutes in length. The “Untold Stories” Project focuses on engaging stories about the role of African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and the education of inner city youth to bring to light the contributions of individuals from these diverse groups and to address new and traditionally underserved audiences regarding the educational richness of the national parks. video: http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watchvideo/#642 Yosemite’s Buffalo Soldiers—Video Ranger Shelton Johnson introduces this story by noting that most people’s experiences of a park is a city park. What does Yosemite offer in contrast? How many African American soldiers were there? In what year did the African American soldiers get called to work in Yosemite? What were they called? Why? Today, African Americans make up less than __% of the total visitation to Yosemite. The California Black Oak produces what crop that helps sustain wildlife and the Native Americans that lived in Yosemite Valley? In 1903, the Buffalo Soldiers in Sequoia built a trail to the top of Mount ______________. Ranger Johnson said that going into a national park is like going into a wonderland; a different world. He asks, “Why should only part of the population have that sense of wonder and that experience of discovery?” He said, “That is part of the experience of being an _____________. Yosemite’s Buffalo Soldiers—PDF File Shelton Johnson grew up in a working class, innercity neighborhood in the city of ___________.
What is the first national park he visited? When Shelton Johnson spoke to inner city kids in Washington DC he told them about his experiences in Yellowstone and Grand Teton, and it was like talking about Mars or __________. After this experience, what was the resolution that Shelton Johnson made? In the years before the creation of the NPS, what was the role of the US Army in the parks? What is Shelton Johnson’s primary audience? He also works with students in what program? What demographic (population) does this program serve? According to Shelton Johnson, who needs beauty? These park experiences, Shelton maintains, are universal, regardless of skin color. National Parks provide a doorway into a ___________ experience. Study Guide—PBS Documentary “Untold Stories” Manzanar: “Never Again” These questions are provided to help you focus on highlights for the next exam. You don’t have to turn in the answers. From the PBS “Untold Stories” view the following: Manzanar: “Never Again” AND read the PDF file. These video segments are approximately 1015 minutes in length. The “Untold Stories” Project focuses on engaging stories about the role of African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and the education of inner city youth to bring to light the contributions of individuals from these diverse groups and to address new and traditionally underserved audiences regarding the educational richness of the national parks. video: http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watchvideo/#642 Manzanar—Video The Japanese Americans dressed their finest, got there early for transfer to camps, and they built the _________ where they were to be housed! The barracks where they lived were made of scrap lumber and tar _______, with no insulation and no privacy. Some of those in camp would sneak out to the local creek to do what outdoor activity? The camp didn’t close until many months after the war was over because a lot of the people had no where else to ____. Camp life was bad because everyone was in captivity, but for some what was even worse? The Japanese Americans had to bury their pain, anger, and frustration in order to survive. For decades it was taboo to talk about the internment experience. Then pilgrimages began in order to remember past injustices and raise awareness of other ________________ struggles. This was all in hopes of something like this (Manzanar) never happening ____________. According to Sue Kunitomi (Embrey), “Although it was a negative place, we want to turn it around to be ____________.” After the war the camp was quickly torn down. It was determined that the infant mortality rate inside the camps was ___ times higher than outside the camps. “One of the neat things about the national park system is that we also preserve _________.” “We have a constitution and we have __________.”
Manzanar—PDF File What happened on December 7, 1941? Sue Kunitomi (Embrey), a Japanese American teenager living in ____________, heard the news on the radio. On February 19, 1942 which president signed Executive Order 9066? What did this order authorize? As a result, Japanese Americans were removed from their homes and relocated to internment centers, known informally as “_________.” They lost their homes, their businesses, their _____, their friends, and most of their belongings. In all, more than ___________ Japanese Americans were incarcerated in ten camps, located throughout the western United States. Manzanar is located 212 miles northeast of what large California city? At its peak, what was the population of Manzanar? The onemilesquare enclosure was surrounded by barbed wire fencing and overlooked by ____ guard towers. Ironically, the young men of Manzanar enlisted in the army, joining an allJapanese regiment, the 242nd, which would become the most highly decorated unit in the _________ of our nation. Following a _________________ decision in December of 1944, detained Japanese Americans were free to return to their West Coast homes. Sue Kunitomi (Embrey) returned with her family to Los Angeles. Many years later, in December 1969, Sue began what would become a lifelong journey to understand what happened at Manzanar and to bring public attention and ________________ to the site. Throughout the ensuing decades Sue and many others fought to have the Manzanar site recognized as a place that should never be forgotten, and a violation of citizens’ __________ that should never be repeated. On February 19, 1992, the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066, the bill for a Manzanar National Historic Site was brought forward in the House of Representatives and got a rollcall vote of 400 to ___. The inclusion of Manzanar in the National Park System was, in the beginning, somewhat controversial. Yale historian Robin Winks posed the question: “Should the national parks commemorate and protect only places and events in which we take pride, or should the parks strive to mark events and places that many agree represent ____________episodes in our national experience?” Winks went on to say: “Education is best done with _________. These examples must include that which we regret, that which is to be avoided, as well as that for which we strive.” A former Superintendent at Manzanar noted, “How the Government treats its citizens—that’s our _________.” At the end of this file Sue indicates that we work at being a democracy. “We work very hard at being a democracy—for all of us, for ____________ who lives here.”