Expanding the American Literary Canon: A Comparative Analysis of the Navajo Nightway and Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
English Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Texas at Arlington, 2000.
English Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Texas at Arlington, 2000.
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Lesson plan involves students looking at primary source documents about people (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) who participated in the schools and then assuming their identity and writing a journal.
Examines the factors that effect the high school graduation success of Ute Mountain Ute students.
Brief descriptions of the potlatch, first salmon ceremony and first root festival.
Students analyze Winter in the Blood by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,
Retelling of traditional Cherokee story which illustrates to importance of respect. Recommended for preschool and Kindergarten.