Lesson Plan: Blackfoot Winter Counts and their Stories
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for Grade 2 language arts, but can be adapted to other levels.
Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Lesson Plan: Creative Writing and Drama
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for high school students.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 2005, pp. 56-83
Description
Article examines the work of Fred Gone and Mark “Rex” Flying and their use of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) to collect and share the stories of the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine communities in Montana in order to tell the histories of their peoples.
Virtual exhibition divided into six sections: how we lived with the buffalo; how we lived with the land; how we lived with other people; our world; and traditional stories.
Includes link to teacher toolkit.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 3, Indigenizing Education, Spring, 2005
Description
Discusses the creation of an on-line newspaper at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Montana and how one journalism instructor, David Spear, explained the importance of community centered storytelling.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2019, pp. 84-115
Description
Author disagrees with the prior critical readings of the text and argues that the novel presents a more nuanced depiction of the Salish – Jesuit relationship than the invader – invaded dichotomy that critics tend to read.
Transmotion, vol. 5, no. 1, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, July 11, 2019, pp. 56-75
Description
Literary criticism article in which the author suggests that Welch’s use of Indigenous understandings of time as a narrative device in the novel Fools Crow works to both dismantle Western histories and to disrupt the mainstream perception of Western ontologies as universal and self-evident.