Native America: Understanding the Past through Things

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 06.04.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Context
  4. Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Teacher Resources

The Circle of Life

Jayme H. Hicks

Published September 2006

Tools for this Unit:

Teacher Resources

Sunshine State Standards Florida Language Arts http://www.firn.edu/doe/curric/prek12/pdf/langart9.pdf

Sunshine State Standards Florida Visual Arts

http://www.firn.edu/doe/curric/prek12/pdf/visarts9.pdf

Alexie, Sherman. "White Men Can't Drum." The New York Times 4 Oct. 1992, The New

York Times Magazine: 30-31.

Alexie, Sherman. "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay." Callaloo 17.1 (1994) : 21.

Cooper, Desiree. "Wasn't that a Party? No, a Glitzy Funeral." Detroit Free Press. 2 May

2006, Metro Final: 1B.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

Mihelich, John. "Smoke or Signals? American Popular Culture and the Challenge to

Hegemonic Images of American Indians in Native American Film." Wicazo Sa Review 16.2 (2001) : 129-137.

Smoke Signals. Dir. Chris Eyre, prod. Larry Estes and Scott Rosenfelt, writ. Sherman

Alexie. DVD. Miramax, 1998.

Hair. Dir. Milos Forman, prod. Michael Butler, writ. Gerome Ragne and James Rado.

VHS. MGM/UA Home Entertainment, 1996.

Ft. George Island

http://www.floridastateparks.org/fortgeorgeisland/default.cfm

Resources for artifact images:

http://www.mississippian-artifacts.com/

http://www.cahokiamounds.com/cahokia.html

http://www.nps.gov/efmo/home.htm

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/knol/hd_knol.htm

Westward the Course of the Empire Takes its Way

http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1lw/index-noframe.html?/t2go/1lw/1931.6.1.html

Sherman Alexie's official website and biography

http://www.fallsapart.com/biography.html

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