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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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