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=Group 1: Nadine, Tamara & Nick=

Additional Resources Link to a PBS special ... only 4 minutes 24 seconds long. ||
 * **Resource** || Comments ||
 * http://www.2020tech.com/thanks/temp.html || This document seeks to address both the facts and myths of the first Thanksgiving from the perspective of a Native American teacher. ||
 * http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/share.html?s=news01nf42q52 || Native American Students concerned over funding.
 * http://www.racismagainstindians.org/ || An entire webpage dedicated to addressing and combating racism against Native Americans. ||
 * NCLB and Indian students ||  ||
 * U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on NCLB and Indian Education.[|Senate Hearing webcast] || I don't recommend watching the entire thing. There are valuable soundbites throughout. I can develop a transcript for class. I recommend watching Charles Rose, who begins at 33:30 and the young 18 year old girl who begins at 96:00. I also recommend including some of this video into our class. ||
 * [|Today's NY Times article about Suspension] || The article itself barely mentions Native Americans. However, when you click on "the study" hyperlink, you see the entire study. I very quickly scanned it. It appears that the authors stray from Native Americans as a focus group - which is noteworthy. However, in the first graph, Native Americans appear to have been the second most frequently suspended racial/ethnic group in 2006. The entire study relates to the content of our class. ||
 * Tribe approves of gay marriage || I included this piece because it illustrates the intersection of tribal people and other marginalized communities. Gay rights has been a hot-button issue at the forefront of the media for many years. ||
 * U.N. conference to support marginalized peoples || I found this article interesting because this just happened two weeks ago, but I haven't heard anything about it at all in mainstream U.S. media. How come U.N. Millennial Goals, including those related to indigenous peoples not more in the forefront of U.S. public conversations? ||
 * Tribal Law and Order Act Signed || This article highlights a new bill that was just signed into law at the end of July-- I googled it, and not one major mainstream media outlet featured this story. ||
 * Six-Nations passports not recognized by British gov't
 * Six-Nations passports not recognized by British gov't

Up-date, Iriquois Lacrosse || Perhaps the biggest challenge of native tribes is maintaining sovereignty as their own nations. This is clearly still an issue in 2010, not just domestically, but internationally as well. In this case, the U.S. government could have intervened on their behalf, but didn't. This article was from July, not August, but I included it because I felt it was important. The second link is a follow-up article to the first. ||
 * AZ immigration laws impact native tribe members || This article is interesting because it highlights the injustice of racial profiling, and the overall blindness of the Arizona anti-immigration laws. Specifically, it illustrates the impact of this law on native peoples. Some of the issues that come up are documentation, first-language, skin color. All of these things are taken as unequivocal by Arizona law makers, but clearly these are complex, culturally situated issues. ||