Smoke Signals (film) Fair Use 10%
Scenes: Indians watching Indians on television. For example.
Producer Chris Eyre. Screen Play, Sherman Alexie
Analyze the representation of a subject
American Memory. Library of Congress.
Analyze the representation of a subject.
TedXTalks by Youth For Youth
Freely available
Interview NPR available online.
Comments useful, especially the comment in reference to "no homo."
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VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 2002
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Comparison of Two Versions of This Land is Your Land.
BMI records has the copyright to the 1944 version I believe. But it's been over fifty years so I think it should be in public domain by now.
American Experience.
short article on the Mass Exodus from the Plains. american experience
Essay on Dust Bowl Migration
A revised version of this essay appeared as “The Dust Bowl Migration” in Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2004)
Supports Lessons on the dust bowl but also Karen Hesse's book -- Out of the Dust (which has tremendous poetry to pair with Of Mice and Men.)
Resources for Teachers from The Library of Congress.
Teaching the Dust Bowl with Primary Sources.
PDF
WARNING> VIDEO Is a great summary but a TOTAL SPOILER.
To be viewed only after the novel is finished and after class discussion.
Review of PT Indian from New York Times,
Women in Agricultural Labor Study. Long article but teachers could use first 4 pages.
To complimennt Part Time Indian. Study of Drop out rates in Spokane, Washington.
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Supports the reading of Part time Indian. This is the Spokane Tribe School District's site.