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Canku
Ota
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(Many
Paths)
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An
Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
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June 2015 - Volume
13 Number 6
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Favorite
Sites
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collected
by Paul and Vicki
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Native
American Veterans Attitudes, Perceptions, and Beliefs about
PTSD
This study is being conducted to explore the perceptions, knowledge,
and attitudes among active and former Native American service-members
of the United States armed services regarding Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD). You are being asked to participate because
we value your opinion, experience, and perceptions as a service-member.
You do not need to have experienced any symptoms of PTSD in
order to participate. The survey will take about 10-15 minutes.
If you choose to participate, you will be asked to answer questions
regarding your perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes of PTSD
and similar combat stress disorders and their treatment.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/nativeveterans |
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Indian
Leadership Education and Development (I LEAD) Project
The purpose of the I LEAD project is to recruit, educate, certify
and place American Indian educators into administrative positions
in schools with high populations of Native American students.
The program will result in the award of a Masters degree in
Educational Leadership and certification as a school principal.
The curriculum focuses instruction on local school improvement
initiatives through problem-based learning assignments.
http://www.montana.edu/education/ilead/ |
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Online
Master's In Teaching Degrees - A Complete Guide
Great teachers will do almost anything to help students succeed.
While some exchange lesson plans for administrative titles to
broaden their reach, others simply wish to find new ways to
support the students sitting in front of them; they love teaching
too much to give it up entirely. How can passionate teachers
reach more students without sacrificing the work they love?
By becoming students themselves.
http://www.gograd.org/online-masters-programs/teaching-degree/ |
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Hoyo
Negro - A Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo
Hoyo Negro is the most important Paleoindian site discovered
in the last decade. The complete, well-preserved skeleton of
a young girl from the Late Pleistocene period rests at the floor
of a large chamber inside an underwater cave in Mexico’s
Yucatan Peninsula. Remains of extinct megafauna are scattered
about the floor and walls of the chamber, some of them commingled
with the skeleton of the girl.
http://hoyonegro.org |
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Physical
Fitness
Attention! Because most kids aren’t getting the recommended
daily amount of exercise, I’ve arranged to shut down
the Internet in twenty minutes. Now you’ll have no more
excuses. Just push yourself away from the computer, and go
outside to play. If you run out of ideas or motivation, the
following physical fitness sites will help. But remember,
you only have twenty minutes to browse them. And then, you
simply must get up from your seat and move!
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CDC:
BAM! Physical Activity
Boldly-colored BAM! Body and Mind is designed for kids nine
to thirteen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). With quizzes and games, BAM! encourages pre-teens to
make healthy lifestyle choices, and also serves teachers with
classroom activities linked to national science education standards.
Highlights of the Physical Activity section are a quiz to determine
which fitness activities best suit your style, and an interactive
activity calendar to help plan your fitness week.
http://www.cdc.gov/bam/activity/ |
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Let's
Move: Get Active
"Children need 60 minutes of play with moderate to vigorous
activity every day to grow up to a healthy weight. If this sounds
like a lot, consider that eight to 18 year old adolescents spend
an average of 7.5 hours a day using entertainment media including
TV, computers, video games, cell phones and movies in a typical
day, and only one-third of high school students get the recommended
levels of physical activity." Let's Move is an initiative
launched by First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Kidnetic
An educational program of the International Food Information
Council (IFIC), Kidnetic.com is built for kids nine to twelve
and their parents. The site is divided into four sections. Move
is the one that focuses on physical activity or what they call
"wet head games," the kind that require you to leave
your computer chair and actually run around and sweat. Kore
is a game center (games such as timed jumping jacks and Chinese
jump rope) and Betchacant is an email challenge to dare friends
to beat you at an activity such as hopping on one foot.
http://www.kidnetic.com |
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KidsHealth:
Staying Healthy
Whether you are a parent, a teen or a kid, KidsHealth has "doctor-approved
health information" just for you. For kids, the fitness
articles can be found under Staying Healthy. For teens, it is
filed under Food & Fitness. Best clicks include the Body
Mass Index calculator (look in Teens / Food & Fitness /
Dieting), and the Related Articles and Related Resources tabs
found on all articles. Although KidsHealth lacks the eye-candy
found on many of the other fitness sites, the information here
is well-written and easy to read.
http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/ |
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WebMD:
Fit
Fit, from WebMD and Sanford Health, is "working to promote
healthy lifestyles in homes, schools, daycares, our clinical
settings and throughout the community by way of technology,
engaging programs and utilizing key role models in a child's
life." Choose your portal (Junior, Kids, or Teen) and
then jump into daily challenges ("Volunteer to sweep
the driveway or wash the car.") and earn points along
the way.
http://fit.webmd.com
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Nazi
Plunder
During World War II, the Nazi party stole thousands of pieces
of European artwork and other items of cultural significance.
Some were destroyed, but after the war, many treasures were
recovered by the Allies’ Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives
program (MFAA). Hundreds, however, remain missing and there
is an international effort to find them and return them to
the heirs of the rightful owners. If you’re a movie buff,
you can learn more about the Nazi plunder with these films:
Woman in Gold (USA, 2015), The Art Dealer (France, 2015),
Monuments Men (USA, 2014), Rape of Europa (USA, 2007).
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Google
Cultural Institute: World War II Looted Art
"The Third Reich's Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, or ERR,
was the main agency involved in the systematic looting of cultural
treasures in Nazi-occupied countries." In cooperation with the
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Google has
created an excellent annotated slide show telling the story
of the retrieval of many cultural artifacts. "Perhaps the most
unlikely heroes to emerge from World War II, the Monuments Men
(and women) were a multinational group of curators, art historians,
and museum directors who saved artistic and cultural treasures
from destruction."
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/exhibit/world-war-ii-looted-art-turning-history-into-justice/2QLytIcpKuJmJw
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Monuments
Men Foundation for the Preseveration of Art
"These monuments, works of art and cultural objects belong to
all of us; they define our human identity." Visit to peruse
the list of artworks still missing from World War II (including
paintings by Botticelli, Caravaggio, and Cézanne), read
up on recent recoveries, and learn about the Monuments Men.
"Many had expertise as museum directors, curators, art historians,
artists, architects, and educators. Their job description was
simple: to protect cultural treasures so far as war allowed."
http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/join-the-movement
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Rape
of Europa
The official site of the 2007 movie of the same name, Rape of
Europa includes The Story in Pictures, Historical Timeline,
Recent Restitutions, and the story of the Monuments Men. "The
men and women associated with the MFAA remained in Europe well
after the end of hostilities in 1945. They established central
collecting points which received and sorted the enormous amount
of treasures recovered from war areas and more than a thousand
hiding places to enable these objects to be restituted to their
rightful owners. These efforts continued until 1951."
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Vanity
Fair: The Devil and the Art Dealer
The stories are still unfolding. Here's one from the headlines
of 2014. "It was the greatest art theft in history: 650,000
works looted from Europe by the Nazis, many of which were never
recovered. But last November the world learned that German authorities
had found a trove of 1,280 paintings, drawings, and prints worth
more than a billion dollars in the Munich apartment of a haunted
white-haired recluse."
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/degenerate-art-cornelius-gurlitt-munich-apartment
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Smithsonian
Archives of American Art: Monuments Men
"Among the holdings of the Archives of American Art are the
papers of Monuments Men George Leslie Stout, James J. Rorimer,
Walker Hancock, Thomas Carr Howe, S. Lane Faison, Walter Horn,
and Otto Wittman. These personal archives tell a fascinating
story." Best clicks are the audio interviews, and the photo
slideshow of items from the exhibition.
http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibitions/monuments-men
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Safe
Search for Kids
This batch of kid-friendly search engines includes both librarian-curated
search engines, and those built using a custom version of
Google SafeSearch. In addition to these tools, I recommend
learning how to turn on safe search filters in each of the
big three search engines: Google, Bing, and Yahoo!
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ipl2:
For Kids and For Teens
ipl2 is the current iteration of what used to be the Internet
Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index. It is maintained
by volunteer librarians and a consortium of colleges. All search
results are curated (not pulled from somewhere else), and there
are no ads. You can search all resources, or restrict your query
to For Kids, For Teens, or "Newspapers & Magazines."
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KidRex
KidRex is a Google Custom Search with an additional black
list of sites that have been manually banned by the KidRex staff.
If you find an inappropriate site in KidRex search results,
fill out their Webpage Removal Request and not only will KidRex
ban it from their results, but they will also submit it to Google
SafeSearch for possible filtering there as well.
http://www.kidrex.org |
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KidsClick!
"KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians
– with kid-friendly results!" Created by the School of
Library and Information Science at Kent State University, it
grew from a search engine created by the Ramapo Catskill Library
System. KidsClick includes only curated results, and accepts
no advertising. Their website selection criteria focuses on
sites "kids (grades K-7) will find entertaining or enlightening."
For more specifics, look for the Selection Criteria link at
the bottom of any page.
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KidzSearch.com
KidzSearch filters all search terms (for profanity and other
inappropriate words) before sending them to Google SafeSearch.
KidzSearch also hosts games, Ask a Question, and Boolify, an
interactive learning tool that visually demonstrates the effect
of boolean operators and other Google search operators. The
site does have advertisements, although their search results
are ad-free.
http://www.kidzsearch.com |
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Primary
School ICT: Safe Search
Safe Search is published by Primary Technology, a British
firm that specializes in school technology. It is powered
by Google SafeSearch and has no advertising. It is easy to
specifically search for websites, images, or games, by selecting
your choice at the top of the search box. The games search,
however, is fairly limited because it only searches a game
site operated by Primary Technology.
http://primaryschoolict.com
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STAR
Students And Teachers Against Racism
announces their new website that offers insight into the Native
American perspective to teachers and educators.
http://www.racismagainstindians.org/
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Changing
Winds Advocacy Center
Through presentations, classroom sessions, curriculum, fund
raising, charitable works, and multi-media efforts, we seek
to raise public awareness of the stereotyping, discrimination,
racism and other unique situations facing Native Americans.
http://changingwinds.org/
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