Native America: Understanding the Past through Things

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 06.04.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Unit Rationale
  3. Pedagogical Strategies
  4. Demographic Profile
  5. Unit Objectives
  6. Unit Background
  7. Historical Background
  8. Tribal Social Systems
  9. Functions of Music with Dance in the Indian Culture
  10. Native American Culture Areas
  11. Performance Practices
  12. Survey of Dance Genres
  13. Survey of Music Genres
  14. Northeast Culture Area
  15. Performance Practices
  16. Conclusion
  17. Lesson Plans
  18. Appendix
  19. Power Point Presentation
  20. Field Study Design
  21. Annotated Bibliography
  22. Discography
  23. Music Software Programs
  24. Students Resources

Native American Music and Dance

Enetta Nelson Rose

Published September 2006

Tools for this Unit:

Students Resources

Rich, Ench, and Cravath, Jay. North American Indian Music. New York: Franklin Watts Library, A Division of Scholastic, Inc., 2002

A discussion of the musical traditions of the Apache, Ojibwa, Oglala Sioux and

Kwakiutl Indians. In addition, instruments, melodies, and rhythms are described as

well as performance practices are described.

Randel, Don Michael. Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts:

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

This book is a music dictionary.

Student Field Trips

Alabama Coushatta Reservation (in Polk County, Texas)

Coushatta Reservation (in Kinder, Louisiana)

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