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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 2018 - Volume
16 Number 6
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Favorite
Web Sites
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collected
by Paul and Vicki
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The
Next Horizon
For three decades, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic
Development has worked for and with American Indian tribes in
the United States and Indigenous communities around the world
to maximize their abilities to strengthen their economies, social
fabrics, and governance systems. The role of the Project has
been to document and disseminate the efforts and achievements
of Indigenous peoples’ contemporary struggles for self-determination,
and the lessons learned are acknowledged as key foundations
of the “nation building” movement that now defines
the worldwide Indigenous renaissance.
https://sites.google.com/view/thenexthorizon/home |
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The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Sports Award
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Sports Award recognizes
sports teams, athletes, and community-based organizations that
use sports to catalyze and sustain changes to make communities
healthier places to live, learn, work, and play.
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/features/sportsaward.html |
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The
Gordon Foundation
While the Foundation has evolved with the times, our guiding
principles are steadfast – the values of independent thought,
protecting the environment, and the full participation of Indigenous
Peoples in decisions affecting their communities form the foundations
of all we do.
http://gordonfoundation.ca |
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First
Nations Films
Groups, educators and individuals all over the world have purchased
and are using our films in their classrooms, schools and libraries.
First Nations Films educates and entertains as we teach. For,
By and About First Nations People.
http://www.firstnationsfilms.com |
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Flag
Day
With roots in the nineteenth century, June 14th wasn’t
officially established as Flag Day until May 30, 1916, when
President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation. It’s
celebration continued in various communities for many years,
but it didn’t really take off until August 3, 1949 when
President Harry Truman signed an Act of Congress designating
it National Flag Day.
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Apples
4 the Teacher: Flag Day Activities for Kids
Along with a short history of the holiday, Apples 4 Teachers
Flag Day Activities include interactive flag coloring, printable
patriotic poems, printable short stories, and articles about
flag etiquette and how to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
For additional activity ideas, visit related patriotic holidays
Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Veterans' Day.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/flag-day/
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Enchanted
Learning: US Flag Day Crafts
For Flag Day, Enchanted Learning offers dozens of patriotic
crafts for preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary ages.
All can be made with common craft supplies, such as paper,
scissors, glue, string, pencils and Popsicle sticks. Projects
that caught my eye include a flag-themed wind sock, a patriotic
pinwheel, and a flag pebble. Some of the printable activities
are only available for paid members.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/flagday/
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Library
of Congress: Today in History: June 14
"To date, there have been twenty-seven official versions
of the flag, but the arrangement of the stars varied according
to the flag-makers' preferences until 1912 when President
Taft standardized the then-new flag's forty-eight stars into
six rows of eight." Visit the Library of Congress to
learn about the history of Flag Day, and the history of the
American flag.
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-14/
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National
Flag Day Foundation
"On June 14th, 1885, Bernard J. Cigrand, a 19 year old
teacher at Stony Hill School, placed a 10 inch, 38-star flag
in a bottle on his desk then assigned essays on the flag and
its significance. This observance commemorated Congresses
adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United
States on June 14, 1777." The National Flag Day Foundation
serves to keep flag history and flag traditions alive.
http://www.nationalflagday.com/default.asp
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USFlag.org:
History of Flag Day
"Inspired by these three decades of state and local celebrations,
Flag Day – the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of
1777 – was officially established by the Proclamation
of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30th, 1916." USFlag.org
is dedicated to the history of the American flag, and has
an excellent article about the history of Flag Day, along
with a gallery of of historic U.S. flags, answers to questions
about flag etiquette, and a discussion of flag desecration.
Do you think the Constitution should be amended to make it
illegal to burn an American Flag?
http://www.usflag.org/history/flagday.html
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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.
https://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.
https://letsmove.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov |
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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/en/kids/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.
https://fit.webmd.com/default.htm
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Flowers
"April showers bring May flowers." Perhaps this is why May
is National Flower Month. Indulge your green thumb with this
week's website picks about flowers.
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Cornell
University: Flower Growing Guides
This home gardening guide is not written specifically for students;
it's for anyone interested in learning more about any of the
269 featured flowers. Flowers are listed alphabetically by botanical
name (such as achillea millefolium) and common name (yarrow.)
Each entry includes a picture, a description, and a brief guide
to growing it. Yarrow, by the way, needs full sun and prefers
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PBS
Parents: Exploring Flowers
Help your kids learn about flowers with these parent-child activities
(for ages three to six) from PBS. Ideas include watching a video
clip from "Flower Power," drawing flowers, collecting
flowers, and/or pressing flowers. "As you collect and press
individual flowers, encourage your child to describe them. Take
her dictation, writing down her words on the paper next to the
flower. Encourage your child to use words to describe the shapes,
colors, and textures of the flower parts."
http://www.pbs.org/parents/catinthehat/activity_exploring_flowers.html
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Thompson
& Morgan: Top 10 Easy to Grow Flowers
British seed company Thompson & Morgan offers advice on
improving your garden with these ten easy-to-grow flowers. Sunflowers,
for example, can reach heights of fourteen feet and are quite
kid friendly. "Just sow the seeds straight into the ground
in a sunny, sheltered spot and watch them grow and grow and
grow! Be sure to provide the stems with supports to grow the
tallest sunflowers around."
https://www.thompson-morgan.com/top-10-easy-to-grow-flowers?source=aw&affid=85386&awc=2283_1525968730_8a8665fe05c1a2372d77132bdfacec36
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US
Forest Service: Celebrating Wildflowers: Just for Kids
The kid section of this US Forest Service wildflower site features
coloring pages, activities, a dozen printable word search puzzles,
and a glossary of vocabulary words from "adapt" to
"threatened." Activities include How to Make a Butterfly
Garden, Make Your Own Perfume, and Preserving Wildflowers. "Most
wild flowers soon wither if you pick them, but you can preserve
them for a long time by pressing or drying them. Choose only
flowers that you know are common, and do not pick them unless
there are lots of them."
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/kids/ |
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My
First Garden
This program is designed for students to explore the fundamental
knowledge needed to grow a successful garden. As students
go through the basics, the FUNdamentals, and the process of
planning a garden, they will be acquiring skills that will
last a lifetime.
http://extension.illinois.edu/firstgarden/
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Metric
System
Here in the states, we’re stuck between two measurement
systems: the U.S. standard of inches, feet, yards, miles,
ounces and pounds, and the decimal-based metric system used
nearly everywhere else. How big is the bottle of soda you’re
bringing to the class party? It’s two liters. But that
can of soda you drink after school? It’s twelve ounces!
Learn more about metrification at the following sites.
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AAA
Math: Measurements: Metric System
Visit the AAA Math measurements page for K-8 lessons and interactive
quizzes on metric prefixes (such as "deca" and "deci"),
and additional sections on metric mass, length, volume and temperature.
"Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius and boils at 100 degrees
Celsius which is a difference of 100 degrees. Water freezes
at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit
which is a difference of 180 degrees."
http://www.aaamath.com/mea.html#topic50 |
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Convert
Me: Metric Conversions
Convert Me provides interactive metric conversion calculators
for over a thousand units and measurements. For example, to
convert five ounces to metric, begin by navigating to the weight
page. Then scroll down until you see the unit you know (ounces)
and enter "5" into the calculator field. On the Metric
Conversions home page, you'll find a handy chart of twenty-one
metric prefixes, and a brief history of the metric system.
https://www.convert-me.com/en/metric_conversions.html
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Math
is Fun: Metric System
"The metric system is a system of measuring. It has three
main units: the meter for length, the kilogram for mass, and
the second for time. With these three simple measurements, we
can measure nearly everything in the world." Learn about
metric prefixes, and explore numbers big and small.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/metric-system.html
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NIST:
SI Units
"The International System of Units (SI), commonly known
as the metric system, is the international standard for measurement."
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has many
metric resources, most of them for high school and older. For
middle-school students, take a look at the animated super heroes,
The Measurement Leagues: Guardians of the S.I.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si/si-units
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Southeastern
Louisiana Univeristy: Metric Units
"The metric prefixes can be employed to scale the base
units so that they can represent anything from a very large
numeric value (for example by using prefixes such as Exa,
Tera, or Mega) to a very small numeric value (for example
by using prefixes such as Atto, Femto, or Pico)." Learn
how scientists and mathematicians use scientific notation
and the metric system.
https://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/wparkinson/help/metric_units/lesson_index.html
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Freedom
Riders
The Freedom Riders were approximately 400 black and white
Americans who (at great personal risk) traveled on buses through
the Deep South in violation of Jim Crow segregation laws,
for six months starting May 4, 1961. Along the way, they were
met with violence and hatred. Eventually the country woke
up to the injustice of these laws. On September 22, 1961,
the Interstate Commerce Commission issued a federal order
to end segregation in bus and train stations.
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History:
Freedom Riders
"Freedom Riders tried to use 'whites-only' restrooms and
lunch counters at bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina and
other Southern states. The groups were confronted by arresting
police officers – as well as horrific violence from white
protestors – along their routes, but also drew international
attention to their cause." Visit History.com for a video
of historian Yohuro Williams describing the Freedom Rides and
the Supreme Court decision that inspired them.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides |
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Mississippi
Department of Archives and History: Freedom Rides Revisited
"How Far Would You Go?" is an interactive lesson that
takes you step-by-step on a virtual Freedom Ride. "Your
goal is to integrate the stations and terminals throughout the
South, although you know you will face major resistance ahead."
For example, after being attacked by an angry mob in the Rock
Hill Greyhound station, will you continue the journey, or take
the next bus home?
https://www.mdah.ms.gov/freedom/ |
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PBS:
Freedom Riders
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the bus rides,
the PBS film Freedom Riders premiers on May 16, 2011. The
film tells the "inspirational story of six months in
1961 that changed America forever." Visit for short bios
of the "Players" which include the Freedom Riders,
civic rights leaders, and key government figures and a timeline
of important events. "Explore the Issues" explains
Jim Crow laws, discusses the role of the Cold War, and why
this particular nonviolent dissent was so effective.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomriders/
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Smithsonian:
The Freedom Riders, Then and Now
A photographic look at the Freedom Riders fifty years later.
Visit for the five-minute video "Riding to Freedom"
(embedded in the story just after the opening paragraph) and
the photo gallery of then and now shots of the Freedom Riders.
Eric Etheridge tracked the riders down, and created a tribute
to them in a book titled "Breach of Peace: Portraits of
the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-freedom-riders-then-and-now-45351758/ |
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SNCC
Digital: Nashville Students and SNCC Pick Up Freedom Rides
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began
in 1960 when student leaders from all over the South got together
to dedicate themselves to racial justice. This digital archive
tells the story of their participation in the Freedom Rides.
In addition to the main article, be sure to explore the primary
sources displayed in the right-hand column. "Over three
hundred student activists were jailed mostly in Mississippi,
but the one of the major effects of the Freedom Rides was
to inspire and shape the consciousness of young people, which
led to a great expansion of SNCC's work."
https://snccdigital.org/events/freedom-rides/
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