Canku Ota - A Newsletter Celebrating Native America March 25, 2000 - Issue 06

Favorite Sites
by Vicki Lockard from various sources

Welcome to LearningPlanet.com. We hope you enjoy our fun, interactive learning activities Welcome to The Learning Planet http://www.learningplanet.com/

Your path for most effective learning is through knowing yourself your capacity to learn the process you have successfully used, and will need interest, and knowledge of, the subject you wish to learn. It may be easy for you to learn physics but impossible to learn tennis, or vice versa. All learning, however, is a process which settles into certain steps. This amazing site is full of study and learning strategies Study Guides and Strategies http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/

Being a kid today is a difficult job. Part of your job of being a kid means learning how to take care of your health. HEALTHwindows for Kids is your guide to the best health and wellness information on the Internet. HEALTHwindows for Kids http://www.healthwindows.org/

Looking at Ourselves and Others, a revision of an earlier World Wise Schools publication of the same title, introduces students to the concepts of perspective, culture, and cross-cultural relations. Specifically, the readings and activities in this guide are designed to help students: Recognize and appreciate differences in perception among individuals and cultures; Define culture and recognize its role in developing perceptions of ourselves and others; Challenge assumptions, promote cross-cultural awareness, and provide opportunities to practice the behaviors that make cross-cultural communication possible. Looking At Ourselves and Others http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/guides/looking/index.html

It is very important to give credit to the sources of information that you use in creating any type of work. The USPTO were prepared using a variety of resources both on the Web and in print. The United States Patent and Trademark Office's Kid's Pages http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/index.html

America's High School Sports Magazine Online! All Stater Sports http://www.all-statersports.com/

Sign an online petition to stop this The FDA cleared yesterday a controversial new pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine with questionable safety and a US government advisory panel is planning to selectively target black children and Native American children for immunization. This plan is being criticized for making children of certain racial minorities "human guinea pigs". It is possible that 1% or more of the children who receive the vaccine may develop insulin dependent diabetes or another autoimmune disease from the vaccine. Pneumococcal Vaccine aka Prevnar http://www.petitiononline.com/Vaccine/petition.html

This is a major treaty site. Has an interesting graph of the results of many of the early treaties US Treaties With Indians http://www.wickiup.com/wickiup/treaty/trty1776.html

To avoid repeating or continuing the tragedies of 'History,' we must realize that today's controversies, confusions, and conflicts are parallel-to, continuations-of, and legacies-from our Common Past. American Truths http://www.americantruths.com/who.html

For Native American women photographers, identity is expressed in many ways Native American Women Photographers As Storytellers http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Jensen/NAW.html

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