Teaching Sioux Culture to College Students through the Analysis of Ella Cara Deloria's Sioux Novel Waterlily and Kevin Costner's Movie Dances With Wolves
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to create a curriculum guide that instructors could
use for teaching the complexity of Sioux culture. The guide will provide instructors with
ideas and techniques for teaching Native American culture through the analysis of a
Sioux novel and a Hollywood western movie. Though this curriculum guide describes a
number of activities that can be applied to any literature class, it was particularly
developed to teach a multicultural literature class to English language learners in a
Spanish college. This study begins with an overview of teaching guides and literary
analyses of Native American texts and contains historical information about how white
Americans perceived their indigenous counterparts. The second half of this study will
focus on practical activities for teaching Deloria's novel Waterlily and Kevin Costner's
movie Dances with Wolves through the Communicative Approach.
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