TPS Online Newsletter We celebrate two holidays in the month of November: Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. The Veterans History Project, a project of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, is a repository of first-hand accounts of American veterans and wartime civilian stories. Your students can listen to the many recordings read the many letters and view the many photos of American veterans beginning with WWI to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.
The Thanksgiving teaching materials include a Thanksgiving Teaching Guide, primary source analysis worksheets, and primary source set of resources, lesson plans, documents and photographs. The resources show scenes from the first Thanksgiving, fun trivia, what a typical Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving looked like in the 1940s.
The Native American resources include photographs, Omaha Indian music, lesson plan and even a web casts that demonstrates Native American life.
Please use the URL links below to access these resources Primary Source Set: Thanksgiving "First Thanksgivings" The Parade Marches On Pioneer Life in Sacramento Lesson Plan Today in History: November 25 - Thanksgiving Day Following the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress recognized
the need to give thanks for delivering the country from war and
into independence. Congress issued a proclamation on October 11,
1782: Why do turkeys have dark and white meat? How did the squash get its name? The following are some photographs depicting typical meals for
Thanksgiving throughout the history of the United States The Thanksgiving turkey at the home of Timothy Levy Crouch. Ledyard,
Connecticut. Neffsville, Pennsylvania. Thanksgiving dinner at the house of Earle
Landis. The family of Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerine Quaker, at their
annual Thanksgiving Day dinner. A twenty-pound turkey was dispensed
with in short order. Ledyard, Connecticut. The Thanksgiving turkey A butcher shop window at Thanksgiving time. Norwich, Connecticut Ledyard, Connecticut. Mr. T.L. Crouch, a Rogerine Quaker, preparing
to carve the Thanksgiving turkey Mrs. T. M. Crouch, of Ledyard. Connecticut pouring some water over
her twenty-pound turkey on Thanksgiving Day Pumpkin pies and Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Mr. Timothy
Levy Crouch, a Rogerine Quaker living in Ledyard, Connecticut Native American The following are LOC collections have documents, photographs and sound recordings that look at Native American life in the United States. Students can use these resources to better appreciate and view what Native Americans life may have been like during the 1900s. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration,
National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art,
National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry
and traditions of Native Americans The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most
significant and controversial representations of traditional American
Indian culture ever produced. Issued in a limited edition from 1907-1930,
the publication continues to exert a major influence on the image
of Indians in popular culture. Curtis said he wanted to document
"the old time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and
manners." In over 2000 photogravure plates and narrative, Curtis
portrayed the traditional customs and life ways of eighty Indian
tribes. The twenty volumes, each with an accompanying portfolio,
are organized by tribes and culture areas encompassing the Great
Plains, Great Basin, Plateau Region, Southwest, California, Pacific
Northwest, and Alaska. Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s
and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains
44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice
Cunningham Fletcher between 1895 and 1897, 323 songs and speeches
from the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, and 25 songs and
speeches from the 1985 Hethu'shka Society concert at the Library
of Congress. Segments from interviews with members of the Omaha
tribe conducted in 1983 and 1999 provide contextual information
for the songs and speeches included in the collection. Supplementing
the collection are black-and-white and color photographs taken during
the 1983 pow-wow and the 1985 concert, as well as research materials
that include fieldnotes and tape logs pertaining to the pow-wow. This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700
pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas
of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These
resources illustrate many aspects of life and work, including housing,
clothing, crafts, transportation, education, and employment. American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published
narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels
in the colonies and the United States and their observations and
opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about
1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript
sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between
1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian
and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites.
The narratives in American Notes therefore range from the unjustly
neglected to the justly famous, and from classics of the genre to
undiscovered gems. Together, they build a mosaic portrait of a young
nation. Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western
History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate
many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs
were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns
and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado
and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than
forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. The following are web casts that look at and discuss Native American
life in the United States. Founded in 1993, the Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers promote the understanding
of the rich cultural traditions of the Navajo "Dineh"
people. Their performances include dances and songs such as the
Corn Grinding Act, the Basket Dance, the Bow and Arrow Dance and
the Social Song and Dance. The group is made up of young dancers
from throughout the Four Corners region of the Southwest that comprises
the Navajo nation. Virgina Driving Hawk Sneve was born and raised on the Rosebud Reservation
in South Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe.
For 25 years, she was a teacher and counselor in public schools
in South Dakota. Since 1972, she has published 20 books, numerous
short stories, articles and poems. Her most recent book is "Granpa
Was a Cowboy and an Indian and Other Stories." Luci Tapahonso was born in Shiprock, N.M., where she grew upon
a farm within the Navajo culture. She is the author of several books
of poetry including "Saanii Dahataa/The Women Are Singing:
Poems and Stories" and "Blue Horses Rush In." Winner
of the 1999 Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers "Storyteller
of the Year" Award, Tapahonso is a professor of American Indian
Studies and English at the University of Arizona in Tuscon. MariJo Moore, of Cherokee, Irish and Dutch ancestry, is an author,
artist, poet and journalist. The author of several books and editor
of a collection of writings by North Carolina American Indians,
her essays, poetry, short stories and commentaries have appeared
in numerous magazines, newspapers, anthologies and journals. Her
most recent novel is "The Diamond Door Knob."
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