- Our next unit explores the Native American Identity. Some questions to guide us through the unit: Who are they as people? How has their identity been formed? What was it in the past and what is it now?
- We will read some contemporary fiction from Sherman Alexie, a humorous, poetic writer, and these stories from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven all revolve around one reservation, and the way of life there.
- As for history, well, essentially our mistreatment and near eradication of Native Americans will be looked at, and how that has also formed the Native American Identity.
- A nice introduction to contemporary reservation life is a 20/20 special, "Children of the Plains."
- Sherman Alexie is charming on the Colbert Report...And again.
- From the Atlantic: How the Legacy of Native American's Force assimilation Lingers Today
Friday, October 7, 2016
Native American Identity/Resistance
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