Additional Information and Resources for Chapter 11
Learn A New Way from the Montana Historical Society. Created by
Salish educator Julie Cajune, this trunk explores the reservation,
allotment, and boarding school periods as experienced by Montana
Websites and Online Lesson Plans
"Picturing the Past: Understanding Cultural Change and
Continuity among Montana's Indians through Historic Photographs"
is a flexible two-day learning activity that challenges students to
examine historical photographs while considering issues of cultural
change and continuity over time.
The Eastman House has an online "Discovery Kit" titled
Beyond the Image: Depicting Native Americans. The kit includes
classroom-ready lesson plans and study materials that can be used in
direct online interaction or as downloadable slide shows and printable
OPI's Indian Education Division has pulled together a list of
resources that "help
to provide insight into the impact the law had on Indian communities
and provide multiple perspectives."
OPI has model
middle school and
high school IEFA lesson plans on allotment.
OPI also has model
middle school and
high school IEFA lesson plans on boarding schools.
Beautiful Tradition: Ingenuity and Adaptation in a Century of Plateau
Women's Art" offers a classroom study unit based on women's
beadwork and tied to Indian Education for All Essential
Archives has digitized all of the Annual Reports of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from
1863 through 1938. Access these full-text, machine searchable
Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit" is a lesson plan
from the Library of Congress that uses primary source material posted
on the American Memory Project website.
"History and Foundation of American Indian Policy" (2001) is a
useful and accessible overview of the ways federal Indian policy has
impacted Montana tribes.
The Indian Land Tenure Foundation has excellent information on
allotment and its consequences, including a
video - a portion of which is posted on OPI's Indian Education
Department's website. At the Indian Land Tenure Foundation you can
also access free lesson plans (registration required).
Marquette University has digitized photographs and articles from
The Indian Sentinel, 1902-1962, fundraising magazine
published by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions that talked about
the church's evangelization efforts (including boarding schools.) If
you direct students to this material, you may wish to use it as an
opportunity to have them analyze bias and intent (since this material
was obviously created from a specific point of view to support a
Videos or DVDs
Chapter 4, "Dislocation/Relocation" (17 minutes) and Chapter 2
"Homesteading" (17 minutes) of
Montana Mosaic: 20th Century People and Events. (Check your
library. OPI donated a copy of this DVD to every public school in
Montana. The DVD is also
available as streaming video.)
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
- 60 minutes
Why Save a Language, Regional Learning Project - 27 minutes
Chief Plenty Coups National Historic Landmark, Pryor. (Related IEFA
lesson plans are available.)
Midwinter Fair, Browning, MT, 1920s, Montana
Historical Society Photo Archives 955-532
Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, PA, 1892, photo
by Choate, Montana Historical Society Photo Archives 956-052
Indian Land for Sale poster, courtesy Library of
Congress, Broadside Portfolio 240, Number 24, Rare Book Collection