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Women in the Work Force: A
Web Quest by the Kentucky Department of Education's Division of Equity The
first task students will need to complete is to decide from which
perspective they will approach the problem. They may decide to approach
the board of the Development Company or to involve the school and
community and approach the issue of the mascot, this would allow them to
sidestep approaching the board of directors.
The perspective of the approach will determine which of the
questions in the Task section will be completed.
You
are the lead Architect for the Easy Street Development Company in Shady
Acres, Kentucky. You have
only recently been hired and you are the only woman in a company of all
men. In addition, you are a
Cherokee Native American. When
you came to Shady Acres, you noticed that the high school mascot for the
local football and basketball team was the Shady Acres Redskins.
This emblem was offensive to you but you have kept silent about
it. As your company began
the excavation project and after the field office had been set up, a
gravesite was discovered. It
turns out that the site is that of a Creek Indian Woman who died in
1835. The company has
decided to relocate the grave to a local cemetery.
You are very aware that native burial sites are sacred and that a
re-location would require a detailed process which includes a native
ceremony and could be costly. It would mean bringing people in to do the re-location.
If you do not say anything, the company would be liable for grave
desecration violations with the State and Federal Government and the
Creek Nation. Your position may be a very unpopular one with the
Development company and one that could cost you your job if it is not
approached carefully. You
must make a decision and prepare a presentation to your company's board
of directors or get the school and community involved and let them
develop a presentation. The
Task Students
will determine which of the following questions must be answered in
order to present accurate information to the board of directors or the
school board before they can proceed. ·
What are the Creek Indian re-location requirements? ·
What are the key issues you will face in your challenge? ·
What women of Native American decent come from Kentucky? ·
How does being a woman affect your position? ·
How does being a minority affect your position? ·
Why is the term redskins offensive to you? ·
What are the laws in the state of Kentucky, when it relates to
Native American burial re-locations? ·
What was the role of a Creek woman in1835? ·
What art forms did the Creek practice and what art might be
buried with the woman? ·
What would a Native American Burial Ceremony have been like and
what art forms would have been present? ·
How would the death be registered? ·
What does the Bureau of Indian Affairs do? ·
Who is the National Native American Inter-Tribal Association? ·
How might your presenting the information to the board be
detrimental to your job? ·
How would involving the community and school be difficult to
organize? ·
What factors must the school weigh when joining in the effort to
help? ·
Why would they need to change their mascot? ·
Why might the school and school board not want to change their
mascot? ·
What are the ethical issues involved? ·
What were the attitudes of Native American men toward Native
American women, and how were they different from the white population. ·
What happened to the Native American tribes in Kentucky? ·
Where was the main location of Creek Indians1835? ·
How would a Creek woman come to be buried in Kentucky in 1835? ·
What would be the pros and con's of drawing it to the attention
of the legislature? ·
How would you react to someone digging up your ancestors? ·
How would you feel about someone using a symbol of the
destruction of your family as a school sports mascot? Research
and answer the above questions that pertain to your prospective using
the resources listed in the resource section.
Form teams of researchers to bring the information together and
discuss how each of the questions relates to your basis for a decision.
Put a presentation together that takes a stand and defend your
position using the information that has been gathered.
Kentucky Women and ReformKentucky
Women in Public Service Kentucky
Women in Business and Industry Books Authentic
Voices of Native Americans Indians
of North America The
Trail of Tears: The Story of the American Indian Removals, 1813-1855 American
Indian Women American
Indian Authors Mountain
Wolf Woman : 1884 - 1960 Remember
the Ladies The
Peopling of America Native
North America Reference Library Vol. I, II, III, & IV Women's
Curriculum Tool Box Videos
The
Native Americans In
Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports America's
Great Indian Leaders Winds
of Change : A matter of Choice Winds
of Change : A matter of Promise Indians
: Between Two Cultures Her
Mother Before Her : Winnebago Women's Stories of their Mothers and
Grandmothers Winnebago
Women : Songs and Stories Women
and the Future:
http://www.women.com/womenfuture/index2.html http://www.nwhp.org/index.html Kentucky
Law http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/search.htm Federal
Law http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/ethnic.html http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html http://www.usbr.gov/laws/antique.html http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/ http://www.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nagpra/nagpra.dat/lgm003.html http://boulder.noaa.gov/updates/tribes.html http://www.cidh.oas.org/basic.htm Native
American Resources http://home.earthlink.net/~rosebud9/mascotpet.htm http://home.earthlink.net/~rosebud9/mascot.html http://home.earthlink.net/~rosebud9/mascotform.htm http://www.ryal.k12.ok.us/ryalframe1.html
http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html http://www.powersource.com/nation/ www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/creek.htm http://www.usbr.gov/laws/antique.html http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/kennewick/ http://www.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nagpra/nagpra.dat/lgm003.html http://www.indart.com/oiag/tatelife.htm http://www.conexus.si.edu/dine2/?pos=99999 http://www.sequoyahmuseum.org/ http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/amerind/amerind.htm http://www.rhus.com/Creeks.html http://rosecity.net/tears/trail/timeline.html http://cherokee.hypermart.net/?about.x=13&about.y=17 http://www.wco.com/~berryhp/creek.html http://sites.gulf.net/perdidobay-indian/saga.html Native
American Women of the Americas http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~pjohnson/mock.html http://www.cherokee.org/Obit_XXIII_10_11_12.asp http://www.cherokee.org/D5_Shoutpouch.asp http://www.cherokee.org/press_release/2000/jun/2.htm http://kennedy-center.org/honors/years/maria.html http://home.earthlink.net/~rosebud9/index.html#squaw Kentucky
Office of Native American Inter-Tribal Association David
Two Bears National
Native American Inter-Tribal Association 702
North Mulberry Street Elizabethtown,
Kentucky 40427 270-765-2085 FAX
503-2181742 The
Process (divide class into
learning teams) Determine which of the following steps will pertain to your particular perspective. Divide the steps up among your team and determine who will do what. After completing your assignments, come back together to present your
findings to the group. Discuss
the information your team has found. Discuss any ethical issues involved. (Doing what is right vs. what is easiest)
Discuss the implications of being a woman and presenting your
case to an all male board of directors or to a board of education.
Each member of the group will present their information.
Each member will take notes and formulate ideas on a project or
presentation. Members will
then decide how to develop their project to demonstrate their
conclusions and justification for those conclusions. The team will
present their project to the review committee. (Teacher and other
classmates). STEPS 1.
Come up with a list of issues involved in the situation. 2.
Go to the Federal Laws Resources and look up burial and
relocation laws. 3.
Go to the State Laws and look up burial and relocation
requirements. 4.
Go to the Women and Reform resources and determine what women are
of Native American decent and from what tribe or tribes they come. 5.
Research and determine how being a woman will affect your task. 6.
Research various resources and determine how being a minority
might effect your task. 7.
Research the term redskins to determine it's origin. 8.
Go to the Native American resources and research Native American
Women. 9.
Look at various Native American art forms. 10.
Go to the Native American Resources and research Creek Indian
funerals 11.
Go to the Native American Resources and focus in on the women and
their roles. 12.
Go to the Federal sites and find out what the Bureau of Indian
Affairs does 13.
E-mail or write organizations to get the answers to questions you
may not be able to find on line. 14.
View videos and look at written publications to determine more
background information. 15.
Research what the purpose of a mascot is and what would be
involved in changing a mascot 16.
Interview someone in the office and the athletic office to
determine why it would be difficult to change a mascot 17.
Determine how you would proceed toward changing the mascot 18.
Research the time line of the Creek and Cherokee 19.
Determine where the Creek and Cherokee were originally located
and where they ended up 20.
Research how many Native Americans exist in the State of Kentucky
and determine how we know this. 21.
Research how many Native American children are in Kentucky
classrooms and determine how we know this. 22.
Identify the barriers to finding this information 23.
Research how one would get the legislature involved in the
identified barriers. Review
committee will discuss the issues.
Following the presentation and discussion, all students will
write a proposal to the school board or to the company's board of
directors, depending on their team's choice of perspective. The
proposals will be presented to the class in the form of a power point
presentation, work of art or a paper. The
group should come back together and discuss all of the various issues.
A lively discussion of ethical choices will be facilitated by the
teacher and will include information on how this activity relates to the
video, Women of Kentucky: Our
Legacy, Our Future and what students learned from the activities. Learning
Advice As
you begin to develop your ideas use concept mapping to organize your
thoughts and document your findings.
As a group you will want to put together the facts that each
member has discovered. Be
sure to listen carefully to each of the researchers.
If some researchers have had a more difficult time developing
their thoughts, other members of the team may want to work through the
information with them to develop it further.
The group should have a meaningful discussion about the issues
involved. If additional
issues come up that the group has no direct experience with, a plan to
speak with someone who has experience in the area should be developed.
Any facts that are not provided in the original web quest can be
determined through group consensus. (For instance, the woman in the
burial site may be given a name and may be an ancestor to someone
involved in the legislature.) Each
member of the group will listen to all of the information provided
before determining the next step. Discussion
may get very lively and at times heated, maintain an unbiased point of
view and respect others opinions. Make
choices on what you feel strongly about and what you feel you can give
in to. (Choose your
battles, you can't get everything you want). A Powerpoint presentation,
work of art, video, written paper or speech may be developed to get your
points across. Your
conclusions should be obvious. Remember,
in any of these presentations, justifications and rationale for your
stand will need to be presented. Everyone
will write their own proposal at the end of the project. Conclusion At
the end of the projects students will have researched issues of ethics,
community responsibility, Native American culture, women's issues,
public service and legal rights and responsibilities. They will have analyzed the information presented,
organized it into a workable body of knowledge and developed conclusions
and projects that demonstrate multiple ways of knowing that stem from
creative critical thinking and problem solving.
They will have a more in depth understanding of the issues that
face Native American Women in Kentucky and will have experienced a
historical perspective of the issues involved. Additionally, students
will have experienced two separate perspectives
and made choices that have different conclusions.
Students will experience the possibilities of two separate
options for solving one difficult problem, each option creating
different and equally challenging consequences. This
web quest was designed by Jean McComb, Kentucky Department of Education,
Division of Equity
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