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by Heidi Schmidt Emberling
Spirit of the Dawn explores the dramatic changes in Indian education from
the boarding schools of the past, where children were beaten for speaking
their language in school, to the more culturally-sensitive classrooms of
today. On the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana, we meet two sixth
graders, Bruce Big Hail and Heywood Big Day III, as they participate
in an innovative poetry class that encourages them to create beautiful poems
celebrating Crow culture and history. Through the children, their parents
and their teachers we see the strength and resiliency of a community
fighting the constraints of the past to secure a future for its children.
Appropriate for:
Elementary School•Middle School•High
School•College/University
29 minutes • VHS
ORDER CODE: ND537V
VIDEO
ORDER CODE: ND537DVD
DVD
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