Category: Culture
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Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian educator eNewsletter
Here. From the newsletter: As school begins, we are excited to introduce you to our interactive website called American Indian Responses to Environmental Challenges and resources to support bringing Traditional Native American Games into the classroom. American Indian Responses to Environmental Challenges is a website for environmental science, language arts, and social studies classrooms and educators. This…
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ICT: Suicide Chronicles, Part 2 of 5: Transforming the Spirit of Suicide
Part two of this important conversation, here. An excerpt: Ain’t no sense. Death by suicide is senseless, awful, and sorrowful in every way. We’re not here to glorify suicide, we’re here to talk about it. Because it needs to be addressed. To clarify the context of Mr. Alexie’s quote, he wasn’t referring to any personal…
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How An Octogenarian Preserved An Endangered Native American Language
From Native News Network, here. An excerpt: It’s easy to take translations for granted when Google can swap between Albanian and Zulu with the click of a button, but even that tech has real world limitations. Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of 130 different endangered Native American languages in the United States…
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Tune into the Daily Show Tonight to see the 1491’s Discuss the Washington Football Team
Here is an article about tonight’s piece.