Charlie M #4c

I learned a lot about Indian Education and now understand how important it is. I learned that there are 12 reservations here in Montana, and I also learned about the different tribal dances performed at the Pow-Wows. The War Dance I specifically learned about, and watched a really neat you tube on the actual dance itself. As far as some really cool learning and teaching activities, I went to yahoo kids on Google and typed in war dances. This site gave me several different ideas in which to step by step teach my students the different dances in elementary form. I also liked the idea of watching a movie in class and typing a paper to go with the movie. Having a visual is a very good way for most elementary students to learn.

Chelsea Lehner assign #4C

I thought that Monday’s class was extremely eye-opening. I had no idea how many young Indians were taken from their families to go to boarding schools. The atmosphere that they were put into must have been very difficult to endure. The idea of “killing the Indian to save the man” is such a racist ideology. Another thing I thought was interesting was that the war dance was actually a representation of each mans encounters during their battle. I think it is critical to incorporate technology when we teach children about Native Americans. I know I wouldn’t have had the faintest clue as to what the war dance looked like without the different videos we found on youtube.

Stacy T - Assign #4c

Two important things that i learned from the Indian education for all lesson are 1) that many of the tribes' names were based off of misnomers. In the past the Indians used hand signals to communicate. When doing so, others may have confused their signs for something else. Therefore they would have a name different than what they call themselves. 2) When the boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania was open, it was considered to be a privilege to be admitted into the school. At the time, it was considered to be like our now a days ivy league schools. At these schools they were taught to be more white, which would then allow them to have more jobs in the future.

I am an elementary education major and an art education minor. There are many different ways to go about incorporating IEFA into my classroom. In the art room, we could learn about the art that is created by native Americans. Everything they do is an art. Their clothes, their jewelry, everything that they make has some kind of bead work or painting on it. A great way to teach this lesson is to go to a museum and look at all the works that they have done. Another way to do this in an elementary school classroom is for the students to either work individually or pair up and research different tribes in different areas. They then could write a paper and build a model of what their houses look like. They could use grass, clay, stones or whatever else they may need to create the type of house being built. This would allow the children to actually see the differences in housing in different climates rather than always reading, hearing, or looking at pictures of the houses. This project is also one that uses many different learning techniques for those that learn differently.

Mark P. Assignment #1

This past week was very interesting for me both in this class on Thursday morning, as well as in Dr. Carjuzaa's Multicultural Education class. On Tuesday in EDCI240 we discussed the boarding schools that were established around the nation in the late 1800's, and basically looked at the negative side of all of it. I thought it was very strange at first, when one of the groups in EDCI320 began their presentation on the boarding schools because they gave the positive side first. I was just about ready to raise my hand and ask "What about all of the de-culturalization and physical abuse that occurred at the schools?" But before I could muster up the courage to, the other member of the group presented the negative side and our class fell fairly silent.

It has been great learning about IEFA though, and I hope that I can help to successfully and positively incorporate it into my classrooms.