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This is an educational site for English As A Second Language (ESL) teachers, students, and people who are interested in learning about American Indians. This website provides this information and includes completed lesson plans, covering the language skills.
Each lesson plan provides historical and cultural information about a given tribe together with a myth from that tribe. In addition, numerous exercises are presented covering all of the material, including tasks for reading, group or class discussions, writing and research.
This section provides origninal material provided by American Indians from different colleges, universities, and other areas in the U.S. The material comes in the forms of essays, poems and art work. The Project Gutenberg Collection of American Indian essays were written by Charles Eastman (1858-1939) who was a great American Indian author and medical doctor.
There are direct links to each tribe’s home page, and related links for additional information pertaining to Native Peoples. There are also links to other sites containing ESL content other than American Indians.
RSS feeds for American Indian newspapers, currently, Indian Country Today, and American Indian magazines.
The blog is updated on a weekly basis, and provides information on contemporary and historical issues about American Indians, taken from Indian newspapers, books, and original writings by American Indians. Suggestions and ideas for reading comprehension exercises and/or writing tasks are also provided.
