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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1974)
' t ii Teachers apply skills of outdoors to classes - .5 . ( 1 ;l i V-""' f 'V 'V 4v I 1 1 I "V vii By Jeff Hamilton Participants in this summer's Outdoor Education Workshop are learning you don't have to study math, art and social studies in the classroom. The Outdoor Education Workshop involves "taking the people outside and letting them experience education," says Doug McCallum, director of the workshop and instructor in physical education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "What we want to give is first-hand experience," he said, "We want to take the basic curriculum and teach the same thing outdoors." The workshop, being held at the University of Nebraska Lincoln through June 28, demonstrates to participants how almost any subject can be taught using the outdoors, McCallum said. The workshop also demon strates techniques in archery, angling, rifle shooting, mech anical engineering, backpack ing, and camping. McCallum said the workshop first concentrates on the child and what he will need to know. Then, said McCallum, "We let the participants dir ectly experience the same thing we want the child to ex perience. The workshop Camp Hitchcock, will meet at in Crescent, Jjjjjl 5Pr customer dafly Not honored foMtake out orders JISl vft t - .' ffJf (pi ; if v) ( 1 1 1 PAV (H I Lji0 xa.,.,.,,..,,..,.,,.., , y 1 GASH IN M ; mmm school mm . ALL Summor SfGc!( f ' mi sale mis vmiii 'pSaaf ooooor ; "3 i 1 isrr ooooor : & UW KyU U . f';H? I ' gw ffo ibis to cssns fa ChsafLVg Open D!y 10 to 5;33 Iowa, the final two days. Here, said McCallum, the students will directly apply art, cooking, math, and social studies to the environment. "We show them you can do things outdoors without a volleyball or basketball," he said. The workshop helps develop skills that could help children understand the concepts and structure of what they learn in nearly all academic areas, he said. The workshop could enable the teachers to practice the methods used by the scientist and apply them to nearly every field of education, he added. The workshop includes the history, development, and nature of outdoor education. It presents approaches to plan ning, staffing, and funding such a program in the public schools. The workshop usually meets from 1:30-4:20 Monday through Friday in the women's physical education buiiding. It can be taken for graduate credit as Outdoor Education 890B, Mc Callum said. McCallum said 25 students are enrolled in the workshop. Four are graduate students and the rest are elementary and secondary school teachers. Other instructors for the course are Dr. Julian Smith, Michigan State University; Dr. Fred Shuette, C.S. Mott Community College in Flint, Mich.; Stan Anderson, Omaha YMCA; and Billy Chapman, National Rifle Association field representative. McCallum said the workshop has been successful "way beyond expectations." He add ed that probably 20 of the participants had told him they enjoyed the workshop and that it had been valuable to them. He said he hoped the workshop would be offered next summer, and that it might be taught to undergraduates as Outdoor Education 416. The Outdoor Education Workshop was one of four summer workshops held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in conjunction with the Physical Education Department. Headers Volunteer Services needs readers for the blind. If interested, call 472-2484, or visit room 200 in the student union. j . I In the outdoor education workshop students feel and smell their , environment to learn what can be perceived without eyes. Media center offers new films on Indians The UN-L Instructional Media Center, University Extension Division, announces the availability of a recent 16mm film series "The North American Indian." This color series, a trilogy, is narrated by Marlon Brando and produced by an English documentary team. It takes a look, from the Indian point-of-view, at the events leading to the defeat of the Indian natives and their removal to barren reservations. Through two examples, the film shows the plight of the Indian today in contemporary America. Nearly 600,000 native Americans now live within the boundaries of the United States. Each of the series' three parts stands alone and is complete in itself. One part looks at history, the other two parts examine the disputed treaty rights of the Indians in Washington State and the abject poverty of the South Dakota Sioux. The film series has been awarded the Best Social Docu mentary Award of the Ameri can Film Festival. The follow ing paragraphs annotate each of the film series parts: PART I TREATIES MADE, TREATIES BROKEN - 18 minutes In 1854 the Indians of Washington State signed the Treaty of Medicine Creek. This treaty assigned them to reser vations but guaranteed for as long as "the grass grows and the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west" the right "of taking fish at ail usual and accustomed places, together with the privilege of hunting, gathering roots and berries and pasturing their horses on open and unclaimed lands." Today this treaty is in dispute. The reason most often given by the State of Washing ton is "conservation." This film CcntS-fiS COm?T!?n'.B v ntrnhers of Indian tribes who depend upon fishing for their livelihood concerning their harassment by the State, as well as documen tary footage of the demonstra tion at Frank's Landing, where in a group of Indians, adults and children, were encountered by a force of Game and Fisheries wardens in the dispute over their r ight to fish. The State contends that no weapons were used in the arrest of the Indians; the film provides evidence that billy clubs and blackjacks were carried into the affray. To many Indians, this dispute exemplifies in part the con tinuing abrogation of treaties on the part of white America in its dealings with the Indians. The legal battle has ho far lasted nearly fifteen years and the question remains: will justice prevail? The film ends -v. ! ! A ! with Duffy Ste. Marie singing "Now That The Buffalo's (s jone. PART II -HOW THE WEST WAS WON. . .AND HONOR LOST - 25 minutes This film is history the landing of Columbus in the New Worldthe signing of treaties by George Washington, and others, in the name of the United States of America the breaking of these treaties and the removal of the Indians to the West the Trail of Tears, in which one-fourth of the Cherokee nation died in a forced winter march to their new "home" in Oklahoma the destruction of the buffalo the emergence of the "Ghost Dance Religion," which promised rebirth of the Indian nations if only they had faith but led instead to the "victory" of the U.S.. Seventh Cavalry , in the Battle of Wounded Knee where, it is said, Indian women fled as far as three miles before ' being shot and killed. Then, the final wars, ending in the defeat of Geronimo in lSftfi. Contemporary paintings, etchings, newspaper accounts, st ill photographs and original motion picture footage show the story. The inevitable question: where is the honor in this history? PART HI-LAMENT OF THE RESERVATION - 24 minutes The Sioux of South Dakota were pushed onto reservations in the Bad Lands, a territory so barren it was generally re garded as worthless. The arable land that is availnble was often divided into small parcels and distributed in such a way that, as this film illustrates, a man might own 800 acres and not be able to farm it. Much of this land is now under lease to non-Indians. Only a few Sioux are fortunate 'P'H'gh to rjwraf thpil own farms. For the remainder, life consists of poverty and unemployment. Halfway across the nation, in a reservation in Washington State, the picture is much the same. The infant mortality rate for the Indian js twice that of all Americans. The despair of the adolescents and adults leads them in alarmingly large numbers to the 'no-solutions' of suicide. Behind these inhuman stat istics, are revealed the poign ant faces and stories of personal despair. The question is: what price for the right of an Indian to remain an Indian? Over 8,000 film titles are available on a rental basis from tho UN-L Instructional Media ('enter. This film library is located in 421 Nebraska Hall. UN-L city campus. tuesday, june 25, 1974 summer nebraskan Ad 0 04. i S-0. 1 - A 4 Jt. A A, A,r.J-', -f . At ,f pags 4