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Activity Two:
- Using the model for analysis, have groups critically
read their assigned documents. Ask the students to
use their models to read the accounts and to evaluate
information found. Each group should compile the information
gleaned from the assigned document.
- Using the "jigsaw" approach to group work,
shift the members of the groups so that each new group
has a representative from each of the original groups.
The task for these groups is to share information
from the documents.
- Ask the whole class to consider all the information
that has been discussed in the individual groups.
Identify the elements of experience that define the
lives of Native American and white women in the West.
Develop historical questions about Native American
and white women in the West—for example—
questions concerning change over time, compare/contrast
and cause and effect. Students can be assigned an
essay based on their questions.
Activity Three:
- Plan a Native American Women’s Rights Convention
with students as delegates. Research the issues appropriate
for activists who support Native American women’s
rights.
- Write resolutions for consideration at the convention.
- Develop a process such as parliamentary procedure
for passing resolutions.
- Elect a chairperson and other officers needed to
carry out the convention in an orderly and effective
manner.
- Hold the convention.
Activity Four:
- Plan a campaign to win the vote for women.
- Select a Western state and research the issues that
women would use in such a campaign. Remember that
the campaign must appeal to women as well as to men
who vote and hold office.
- Plan the activities for state campaign. These might
include parades with placards, rallies with speakers,
petitions, and dinners.
Activity Five:
- Explain to the students that quilts often were created
to tell the story of an individual, family, or culture
and that the class is going to create a quilt that
focuses on the life of a Native American or white
woman.
- Select the life of one woman from the documents.
List the major events of her life. Or ask students
to combine information on several women to get a complete
or composite picture of the typical life of women
of a particular background.
- Ask students to design a quilt that creates a lasting
image of a Native American or white woman’s
life.
Extension Activities:
Research art of the West.
Essay:
To what extent do the images of the West portrayed in
art accurately portray life in the West for Native American
and/or white women?
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