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A KIDSNET GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS

i want to tell you a story as it was told to me."

With a gentle beat on the drum, Old Pete Chasing Horse, known A grandfather as Grandpa, begins the legend who believes in tradition of Eagle Boy. Grandpa (August Schellenberg) is the storyteller A teenager of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Now, late in who believes in today. his life, he must pass on the tradition of storytelling to the A journey next generation. Someone must that transcends time. learn the legends and tell them to others, or the stories will lose their power. One who could benefit from the wisdom in these stories is his 17-year- old grandson, Shane Chasing Horse (Eddie Spears).

Shane belongs to a Native American street gang, and he's in trouble. He owes the gang money, and to pay it back, he steals a boom box. But after he pawns the box, he impulsively buys a ring for his girlfriend, Mae Little Wounded. With threats from the gang heating up, Shane agrees to drive Grandpa to the All Nations Powwow in New Mexico. Grandpa promises to give Shane his "best pony," the truck, after the trip. Shane thinks he can get enough money for the truck to repay the debt. During the long journey, Grandpa uses their time together to tell the legends to Shane, one last time. SYNOPSIS: NIGHT ONE

Their journey continues. In the unrelenting heat, a mosquito lands on Each legend comes from a specific Native American culture, Shane's arm. He brushes it away and then surprises Grandpa by telling the story of how mosquitoes came to be. Shane had heard this which is indicated in parentheses. The meaning of each legend from his father, Sam, before Sam left the family because of a story, as defined by screenwriter John Fusco, is in italics. drinking problem. Shane and Grandpa meet a redheaded stranger, an See Dreamkeeper Dramatic Provenance, page 6. Indian "wannabe," who asks for a lift to the powwow. Shane refuses. Disappointed, Grandpa tells the ...

Legend of EAGLE BOY'S VISION QUEST (Lakota) Legend of TEHAN, THE RED-HAIRED, WHITE KIOWA (Kiowa)

No one can demand a vision. A man's heart and spirit are more important Eagle Boy sits on the mountain, hoping to have a than what blood he comes from. vision. Impatient, he complains to the heavens, Tehan (tey-han) is captured and adopted by the and the Spirit world answers.. .with a huge Kiowa tribe. Broken Lance, suspicious of the rockslide. A buffalo prevents a tree from crushing boy's color, wants him gone. Tehan sets out to Eagle Boy, thus making him feel important. He prove his worth by trying to rescue horses stolen demands that the Spirits provide him with a by white soldiers. Captured by the U.S. Army, he vision. For his insolence, a terrible storm is forced to work at Fort Sill. His sister, Talks A descends, causing Eagle Boy to run for his life. Lot, leads a group to rescue him.

Grandpa interrupts the story, promising to finish it at the All Nations Out on the highway, Shane stops to pick up the hitchhiking Powwow in New Mexico. When they discover the gang following redheaded stranger. The drive is long and tiring. To help Shane stay them, Grandpa directs Shane to turn onto a dirt road. Shane tells awake, Grandpa tells the... Grandpa about his girl problems. In response, Grandpa tells the...

Coyote and Iktome are two tricksters in Lakota legend. They teach the people High Horse is in love with what not to do. Bluebird Woman, but her Lakota father forbids marriage. Coyote and his companion In despair, High Horse, Iktome (ik-toe-me), a spider disguised as a dark spirit, person, are hungry. In makes a suicide ride into an order to find something to eat, Coyote offers Grandfather Stone a special enemy Crow camp, certain he will be killed. But the frightened Crows run knife as a gift. Grandfather Stone then helps them find food, but Coyote away. High Horse returns home a hero with the enemy's horses, and realizes he will need his knife to eat it, so he steals it back. The outraged weds Bluebird Woman. Stone crushes Coyote.

Grandpa points out that High Horse won his woman with honor. As Shane stops at a gas station and discovers that the gang has caught up thunderclouds appear, Grandpa tells the ... to them. He drives through the night to get away from them. The dawn inspires Grandpa to continue the story of Eagle Boy... Legend of SHE CROSSES THE WATER AND THE THUNDER SPIRIT (Mohawk) Legend of EAGLE BOY'S VISION QUEST, PART 2 (Lakota)*

We must always honor and Only through perseverance respect the power of nature. does a vision come. Thunder Spirit, from the land After three days and nights with no food of the sky, falls in love with or water, Eagle Boy is visited by an elk a Mohawk woman named who tells him how to defeat the She Crosses the Water. They serpentlike Uncegila (oo-chay-gee-la). wed and live in the celestial Eagle Boy must obtain four magic world of Sky Woman. When arrows and instructions on how to use She Crosses the Water returns them from a beautiful cave woman. He • shoots the arrows, but three of them miss the mark. Then Uncegila pulls to earth to bear and raise her son, Thunder Boy, she tells her mother that him into the water. Will Eagle Boy be drowned? no one may ever strike the child. One day, Clan Mother strikes him and he vanishes into the mist forever The gang is back.. .this time with guns. Shane makes a wild U-turn, and the gang's car goes over the edge and plunges into the Rio Grande. END OF NIGHT ONE

*Please refer to the Content Advisory on page 8.

The car sinks, trapping the gang. Shane dives in and rescues them. In Grandpa and Shane talk about Shane's father, Sam. His drinking has the parallel story, Eagle Boy, also submerged, kills the monster. Both led him away from the "Good Red Road." At night, Shane dreams of boys are now men, even heroes. Grandpa invites the gang members Eagle Boy, and the legend continues... to come along with them on the trip. Farther down the road, they pass a dead coyote. Grandpa sprinkles a bit of tobacco on the animal, a Legend of EAGLE BOY'S VISION QUEST, PART 4 (Lakota) traditional way to "honor" the coyote. Then Grandpa tells the... Walking with power is not the same as having a vision. Legend of COYOTE, IKTOME, AND IKTOME'S WIFE (Lakota) Now Eagle Boy's arrows never miss. But every day the crystal heart demands that he perform new ceremonies. Eagle Boy grows weary of Another traditional Lakota trickster tale having everything and earning nothing. One power, his vision to see into illustrating how not to behave. the future, disturbs him. Iktome invites Coyote to dinner, telling his wife to cook two livers. While Iktome is out hunting, his Along the highway, a man with a horse trailer offers to give Shane, wife eats both livers and fears her husband's wrath. Grandpa, and the pony a lift. Grandpa refuses, and Shane explodes. Coyote arrives and tries to seduce her. She pretends The old man complains that his grandson is too concerned with to be wooed, but unsheathes a knife. She must himself. Grandpa says there is no word for "I" or "me" in the have two of something cooking when her husband language of their people, just "we" and "us." He then tells the... returns. Coyote, understanding her intent, flees. Legend of RAVEN (Chinook)

Shortly thereafter, the truck breaks down. A van of Native American One must always think of the community first in girls stops and offers them all a ride to the powwow. Everyone gets times of hardship. in, except for a frustrated Shane, and Grandpa, who has more stories ia to tell. Grandpa returns to the... Raven warns the people that their great sickness is caused by man's greed. To end the plague, a chief's Legend of EAGLE BOY'S VISION QUEST, PART 3 (Lakota) daughter must throw herself from the cliffs to the rocks below. Against the chief's wishes, his own Only through perseverance and faith does a vision come. daughter leaps to her death to cure her people. In Following instructions, Eagle Boy cuts out Uncegila's heart. He then takes memory of her sacrifice, a waterfall now flows the glowing red crystal to his lodge. The heart gives him great power. Grandpa knows they are getting closer to their destination. Seeing a Grandpa wants to ride into the powwow on his dun pony. He explains familiar trail leads him to tell the... that this pony is good medicine in the... Legend of EKUSKJNI AND THE GHOST HUNTER (Blackfoot) Legend of DIRTY BELLY AND THE DUN PONY (Pawnee) We must all let go of our parents, while This legend has a message of faith keeping their love deep within our hearts. during hard times. The hunter Ekuskini (ee-koos-skin-ee) wants to search Dirty Belly and his grandmother are poor for his dead father. When Ekuskini rides towards the scavengers living on the outskirts of the ghost hunter (his father), the ghost disappears, Pawnee camp. When Dirty Belly finds leaving a stone in its place. He keeps the stone close an abandoned dun pony, he fearlessly to his heart, and becomes a successful buffalo hunter. rides it into battle. The pony is killed, but, as a reward for his bravery, its spirit tells Dirty Belly how to find 20 more horses. The two come to a trailer belonging to Shane's father, Sam. That night, while Grandpa sleeps in the trailer, Shane and his father sleep outdoors Shane and Grandpa stop for the night, camping out under the stars. and reconnect with one another. In the morning, they discover that Grandpa tells the... Grandpa has died. Driving toward Pine Ridge with Grandpa's body, together they finish the... Legend of QUILLWORK GIRL AND HER SEVEN STAR BROTHERS (Cheyenne) Legend of EAGLE BOY'S VISION QUEST, FINAL SECTION (Lakota) This is a creation story about the Big Dipper, showing us how dreams can guide us. A vision is a gift from the Creator. Quillwork Girl dreams of having Seven Brothers and Angry, Eagle Boy returns to the Medicine Man's camp—it had all been a becoming their Cheyenne sister in spirit. But Buffalo dream. The Medicine Man explains that searching for a vision, Calf wants to marry her and take her away. To demanding a vision, even suffering to find one, cannot create what he escape, Quillwork Girl and the brothers climb a desires. Wisdom is a gift, which comes from within. cottonwood tree. With each arrow they fire upward, the tree grows, until they reach the safety of the Shane goes alone to the All Nations Powwow and sees the faces of clouds. The last arrow transforms them into the characters from Grandpa's stories, alive in this age, all on the "Good stars of the Big Dipper. Red Road." He sits down and beats his drum. Children gather, and he begins to tell a story. Now Shane, too, is on the "Good Red Road." "Please refer to the Content Advisory on page 8.

Middle/Junior High School ^^^^^-3 y^^^*x l 1 « m\' ' ^^ CURRICULUM AREAS: English/Language Arts, Social Studies/History, Media Literacy each tribal nation's history and culture. Treat the legends with EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: respect and use respectful language in class discussions. The • To encourage the study of Native American history and culture. following terms are acceptable to most first Americans: Native • To understand and appreciate figurative language. Americans, Indians, Indian Peoples, and American Indians. To explore the oral tradition as the first medium, and examine how legends can be translated in a dramatic way through film. Vocabulary RES: A clipped word for reservation, an area of land set aside by Tips for Using the KIDSNET the U.S. government for the exclusive use of Native Americans. Dreamkeeper Guide for Educators SHAMAN: A person who has powers of prophecy and/or healing • Assign Dreamkeeperior vacation viewing. Copy and distribute and may act as a messenger between the temporal world and the the one-page take-home sheet, Dreamkeeper Family Viewing spiritual realms. Guide, at www.kidsnet.org, to facilitate viewing and family SWEAT LODGE: A lean-to, dugout, or cave heated by steam discussion. from water poured over rocks, used for therapeutic or ritual • Videotape the miniseries to show in class. See Fair Use Taping cleansing. Guidelines on page 8 for more information. • Plan to show the film in segments. Use the Discussion Questions Terms and Student Activities in this guide to connect the content to curriculum. COUNTCOUP Legend of Dirty Belly and the Dun Pony, Night 7Vvo.The coup is a special stick with a curved top like a long shepherd's crook. Grandpa explains: "To strike an enemy with a Background coup stick and leave him unharmed but humiliated was a war A LEGEND is a story set in a specific time in the past about honor of the highest rank." heroic or important figures. It is different from a myth, because the GOOD RED ROAD: This is a Lakota expression meaning a path hero is human rather than a god. Students should be advised that, that runs north and south and is the good or straight way. For the to Native Americans, these legends are more than mere stories; Lakota, the north represents purity and the south is the source of they are meaningful and sometimes even sacred narratives about life. To walk the "Good Red Road" is to follow the Indian way of the sacred Pipe and to walk closely with LOCATIONS Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit. HAMBLECEYA (HUM-BLAY-CHAY-YA) Legend of Eagle Boy, Nights One and Two: 0 Blackfoo Traditionally, a young Lakota Plains boy whose © voice is changing at the approach of puberty Chinook Mohawk Cheyenne O tries to "find direction in his life." The seeker O Lakota Bear Butte C\Ci often begins the quest with an inipi, a sweat, Lakota followed by a period of isolation and fasting. POWWOW A traditional gathering of Native Americans to share their heritage and culture. The modern powwow is both social and o o cultural, much like a family reunion. Kiowa Pawnee ORAL TRADITION The preservation of a community or people's cultural and historical background by passing on from generation to generation spoken stories and songs that are not written down. A comprehensive list of terms and of tribal i-Eagle Boy's Vision Quest. 2-Bluebird Woman and High Horse. J-She Crosses the Water and the Thunder Spirit. lands and names, with Native American 4-Legend of Tehan, the Red-Haired, White Kiowa. b-Coyote and Iktome. 6-Dirty Belly and the Dun Pony. -Quillwork Girl and Her Seven Star Brothers. S-Raven. —Coyote, Iktome, and Iktome's Wife. 10—Ekuskini and pronunciations, is available at http://abc.com the Ghost Hunter. (keyword: Dreamkeeper}.

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1 Some of the legends begin by showing an Indian posing for a 1804-06: Lewis & Clark Expedition. U.S. photographer, or "shadowcatcher." A real-life shadowcatcher Army officers set out from St. Louis to was Edward S. Curtis, who devoted 30 years to documenting the find a "Northwest Passage" linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Though no lives and traditions of Native Americans, beginning around 1900. water link is found, the explorers make View some of his work on the Library of Congress website: peaceful contact with many Native http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html American tribes. How do the actual Curtis photographs compare with the ones presented in Dreamkeeper! What impact did the photos have 1830: Indian Removal Act. Entire tribes on those who saw his work in the early 20th century? How is his are compelled to move west of the work regarded today? Mississippi River. 2 Each legend comes from a specific tribe and location (see map 1838-39: The Trail of Tears. The on page 4). Look at each region and consider how its physical Cherokee are forcibly removed from characteristics—weather, soil, vegetation, and animal life— Georgia to Indian Territory, now affect the lives of the characters in the legend. Oklahoma. Many become ill en route, and thousands die. Legend of Eagle Boy's Vision Quest: Lakota; Bear Butte, South Dakota. 1876: Battle of Little Big Horn. Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and the Sioux wipe out George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry on Legend of Bluebird Woman and High Horse: Lakota; June 25. Cheyenne River, South Dakota, 1800s. 1886: Geronimo Surrenders. The final resistance band of Legend of She Crosses the Water and the Thunder Spirit: Chiricahua Apaches, under the leadership of Naich'e and the Akwasasne Mohawk; Haudenosaune/New York State. shaman Geronimo, surrenders to U.S. Army forces. Legend of Tehan, the Red-Haired, White Kiowa: Kiowa; 1887: General Allotment, or Dawes Act. Property owned by the American Southwest. tribe is redistributed to individual Native Americans, with the Legend of Coyote and Iktome: Lakota; Great Plains. remaining acreage sold at bargain prices to land-hungry U.S. Legend of Dirty Belly and the Dun Pony: Pawnee; citizens. Great Plains. 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee. Some 300 Sioux men, women Legend of Quillwork Girl and Her Seven Star Brothers: and children are killed by U.S. Army troops. Cheyenne (Tsistsista); Montana. 1924 Native American Citizenship. Congress grants citizenship Legend of Raven Chinook Pacific Northwest. to all Native Americans; most receive the right to vote from their states, although some cannot vote until 1948. Legend of Coyote, Iktome, andlktome's Wife: Lakota; Great Plains. 1927 Mount Rushmore Project. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum begins work on the Mount Rushmore National Monument, using land in Legend of Ekuskini and the Ghost Hunter: Blackfoot; the Black Hills considered sacred by the Sioux. Mountain Plains. 1934: The Wheeler-Howard Act. This legislation makes it 3 Pick a legend, and compare and contrast the roles and possible for Native Americans to reestablish aspects of responsibilities of men, women, and (if appropriate) children. traditional cultures and governments, including tribal lands. 1942: Navajo Code Talker Project Begins. Navajo, an unwritten Student Activities language of code words, was used during World War II for I Using a road map, try to determine the distance traveled on the secret communications. trip Grandpa takes with Shane, from the Pine Ridge Reservation 1947: Crazy Horse Monument. Work begins on a monument to in South Dakota to the All Nations Powwow in Albuquerque, Crazy Horse, chief of the Oglala Sioux. The site, still under New Mexico. Draw your own map, and find other locales construction, is, like Mount Rushmore, also carved in the Black important to Native Americans. Hills of South Dakota. 2. In Dreamkeeper, Shane's father, Sam, is described as having a 1954 Special Relationships End. U.S. Acts of Congress terminate drinking problem, his mother works at a casino, and Shane the relationship between the federal government and several belongs to a Native American gang. Do you think the portrayal Indian nations. of this Native American family is accurate? Explain. What other 1975: Indian Self-Determination Act. This law and others enable information might you need to answer this question, and where Native American groups to assume control over the federal could you find it? programs created to help them. 3 After watching Dreamkeeper, ask students to discuss if their For a more comprehensive timeline, please see Teaching About perceptions of Native Americans changed. Then ask them to Native Americans (NCSS Bulletin 84,1997), available at the choose an issue from the miniseries—political, social, NCSS website, environmental, generational—and create an ad campaign about http://www.socialstudies.org/publications/bulletins.shtml that topic (create a poster, film a video, write an essay, etc.).

Discussion Questions Student Activities

1 Shane is a complex character, with 1 Write a short story about your family that might be told to your positive and negative qualities. Describe grandchildren. Think about the stories told by or about your them, and then compare him with Eagle grandparents, parents, or other relatives. Consider family and Boy. Grandpa, too, has positive and cultural traditions—how your family celebrates a holiday or negative traits. Think about each festival, or how a family recipe or activity has been handed down character's point of view. How would from one generation to the next. Shane and Grandpa describe each other? 2 Legend of Quillwork Girl and Her Seven Star Brothers is a 2 In Legend of Tehan, the Bed-Haired, Cheyenne creation story that explains the Big Dipper. Research White Kiowa, Tehan is always the other Native American legends about constellations, the sun, and outsider, even when captured by white the moon, and then create your own. soldiers. Compare and contrast Tehan, the 3 Select two characters from Dreamkeeper, one from the hitchhiking redheaded stranger, and contemporary story and one from a legend. Make character Shane. In what ways are they outcasts? webs for each. Then work in small groups to share and compare 3 List the events in the contemporary story character webs. that are the springboards for each legend 4 How do you think the rescue from the Rio Grande and the All Grandpa narrates. Nations Powwow change the relationship between Shane and 4 There is rich, imaginative language in Dreamkeeper. Ask students the gang? Write a scene showing what you think might happen to to write down as many similes as they remember. (A simile is a the young men after the miniseries ends. figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are 5 Grandpa often talks about the "Good Red Road." Write a compared in a phrase introduced by like or as.) Explain the definition, an explanation, or a poem. Then read the meaning of: screenwriter's definition on page 4. Other options: draw or paint a "High Horse and Bluebird Woman, like two fingers crossed." picture, create a dance, compose music, or find and record "But your spirit chases a girl up the Cheyenne River, music that exemplifies what the "Good Red Road" means to you. like a man chasing a ghost pony, never to be caught." 6 Pick one of these Native American nations mentioned in the film. "I will not stay here to be killed like a dog." Find out more about its history, culture, or legends: Abenaki, Akesasne, Apache, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chinook, Clackama, 5 Grandpa tells his son, Sam, that Shane needs his father. Clatsop, Crow, Kiowa, Lakota, Mohawk, Oglala, Ojibwa, Pawnee, "One twig might bend, but the bundle will always remain strong." Salish, Skilloot What does Grandpa mean? 6 After viewing Night One of Dreamkeeper, make predictions about what will happen to Eagle Boy, Shane, and his grandfather.

DREAMKEEPER DRAMATIC PROVENANCE

Hallmark Entertainment has distinguished itself as a producer of dramas involving myths and legends, including Arabian Nights, The Odyssey and Merlin. For Executive Producer Robert Halmi, Sr., the last unexplored territory was right here at home. "The only mythology we have is the Native American one, and nobody really bothered telling these stories." Halmi wanted to present these stories honestly, so he asked screenwriter John Fuscoto create a tapestry of Native American legends. Fusco, though not a Native American himself, has spent five years living on the Pine Ridge Director Steve Barron (left) and screenwriter John Fusco. Reservation in South Dakota, doing research for the film Thunderheart. "I became immersed in the Lakota culture and the spirituality of the culture," he says. "I learned so much about the 'Red Road.'" Dreamkeeper managed to move the oral tradition immediately into film, bypassing the need for a full written text. Nothing was lost in translation, though, because technical advisors from the relevant Native American nations were on the set at all times. Halmi says that transforming these legends into film required state-of-the-art special effects. In fact, he says, some of the 450 effects have been developed only in the past year. That technology helped Steve Barron, the director, to create many different "looks" for the legends. (See Barron's interview comments, page 7.) Hallmark Entertainment also gave KIDSNET exclusive access to their storyboards, which are the planning pages of any good film. Executive Producer Robert Halmi, Sr.

Dreamkeeper Storyboarding

Storyboarding is the visual equivalent of outlining an essay or novel. Legend of Eagle Boy's Vision Quest. A hallucinogenic story, induced by hunger It is the process of producing sketches of scenes, and then attaching and thirst; the effects are therefore quite them to a wall or compiling them in a book to view the pieces as a "groggy." As it is a very ancient story, we whole. Filmmakers use this technique to plan elaborate shots or shot with a special 'reversal' film that work out special effects. In the late 1920s, Walt Disney began using deepens the black areas of the picture and storyboards to manage the thousands of drawings needed to fully crushes and sharpens the sky. This makes animate a cartoon. Looking at each scene before the film was shot it feel more like it is from another time. allowed the Disney team to track the progress of the project and to Legend of Bluebird Woman and High Horse. A shallow depth add or discard scenes as needed. Storyboarding is also a popular of field, a tum-of-the-century photographic look with sepia tool in education and in business, because it allows everyone to see tones. I had asked John Fusco to incorporate the photographer interconnections between different ideas. (shadowcatcher) into the myth to justify the look. Dreamkeeperwas shot using extensive storyboards, in part to Legend of She Crosses the Water and the Thunder Spirit. The organize the numerous visual effects. Hallmark Entertainment has opposite look from the warmth of "High Horse." This is cool and thundery, bluey tones with the green of the corn, like some of generously provided KIDSNET with the actual sketches used to plan the old Mohawk etchings that show rolling green hills. I wanted the Eagle Boy story and the Shane story. (See below.) dark clouds, and I lucked out. The snow was a mad bonus—it was August 2! Student Activities

Legend of Tehan, the Red-Haired, White Kiowa. As this 1 Native American culture is defined by its oral tradition, which might well have been the most factual legend, we went for a passes on knowledge, skills, beliefs, and ideas through speaking subtle, searching, documentary look. Hand-held cameras and "front-lit" scenes, which goes against the cinematic and direct teaching. John Fusco, the screenwriter for convention of keeping the sun behind—or three-quarters Dreamkeeper, had to translate legends he had heard into a written behind—the subject. script, which could then be used in filming. Reproduce this creative Legend of Coyote and Iktome. I wanted to shoot the first story challenge for yourself. Begin by telling a story, then write it down as if the whole thing had been caught in the headlights of the word for word, then construct a scene from the written document truck. This would make for an extraordinary look and keep the 2. West Side Story updated Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. sense of the road journey at the same time. These Lakota Clueless is a modern take on Jane Austen's Emma. Write a characters are quirky, and I wanted their movement to also be 21st-century version of one of the legends told in Dreamkeeper. a bit superhuman, so we prerecorded their dialogue and had them mime to it in slow motion, then sped it up again to create 3 Have students pick their favorite scene from the miniseries and the eccentric movements. plan it out on paper. Then have them write the dialogue in the Legend of Dirty Belly and the Dun Pony. I felt I had seen too scene and act it out, using the boards as their prompts. Ask many talking horses, so I decided that, because the legend them why storyboarding has been called "acting with a pencil." was wonderfully spiritual, we would go for an inner voice and use "in camera" organic effects to depict him. We found some 80-year-old hand-cranked cameras, and we would run the film forward and backward in the camera, creating a buttery multiple image of the horse and its magical powers. Legend of Quillwork Girl and Her Seven Star Brothers. As this Cheyenne creation story seemed the most storybook of the legends, not least because we found quite a number of books that told it, I decided to soften the image, like a painting, and compose it quite theatrically, like a book. Legend of Raven. This legend comes from a time of great waves of sickness affecting the land and the people. The river was a strange turquoise blue, so we kept that cold feeling through the story. Legend of Coyote, Iktome, andlktome's Wife. Again we used the quirky movement. We also mixed the cultures a bit, giving the characters a Southwestern house, even though they are Lakota. They are wanderers, tricksters. There are hundreds of stories about them, which are usually funny. Making them timeless also added to the comedy. , Legend of Ekuskini and the Ghost Hunter. Winter hunting was very tough for the Blackfoot tribe. Murky, black areas of the frame contrast with the brilliant white snow to present a bleakness, like hunger. The story's idea that this hunter thinks he finds a buffalo, which is only a mouse, gave me the idea to Legend of Eagle Boy's Story of Shane and Grandpa, Night One. Vision Quest, Part 3. play with scale. Hence the tree that is only a twig, the rock a The director's vision of the gang's car as it runs Eagle Boy raising the off the road and plunges into the Rio Grande, and stone, etc. heart of Uncegila the scene as depicted in the miniseries.

© KIDSNET 2003 NATIONAL CURRICULUM STANDARDS RESOURCES Standards for English/Language Arts Dreamkeeper illuminates the following standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of English Books and by the International Reading Association. Students will: Teaching About Native Americans, by Karen D. Harvey, • Read a wide range of print and non-print texts. Lisa D. Harjo, and Jane K. Jackson; NCSS Bulletin 84, Apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, 1997. Includes in-depth historical and sociological interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. background information, lesson plans for grades 3 through • Employ a variety of writing methods to analyze and high school, teacher and student references, book lists, critique media and literature. suggested Native American authors, timelines, maps, and 1 Use a range of strategies to write and communicate statistics. Published by the National Council for the Social with different audiences for a variety of purposes. Studies, available at • Apply spoken, written, and visual language to express http://www.socialstudies.org/publications/ their ideas and to aid in their development as bulletins.shtml or by calling 1-800-683-0812. knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical Internet members of society. Native American Animal Stories, by Joseph Bruchac; • Conduct research on issues and learn to gather Powwows: Fulcrum,1992. A collection from many different tribes, with information via technological and informational glossary, pronunciation key, and tribal-nation http://www.powwows.com/links/Reference/Pow Wow/ resources. Links to news about dates of powwows and Native descriptions. Bruchac has written many other books about • Develop an understanding of and respect for diversity in Native Americans—novels (such as Sacajawea), oral American festivals. language use, patterns, and dialects across cultures, histories, plays, and others. Indigenous Peoples' Literature: ethnic groups, geographic regions, and social roles. Changing Women of the Apache: Women's Lives in Past http://www.indians.org/welker/legend.htm Visit www.ncte.org/standards for more information. and Present (The American Indian Experience), by Sydele Creation, migration, and origin stories, organized by title, E. Golston; Franklin Watts, 1996. Grade 8 and Up. Describes with a listing of the tribe of origin. Standards for Social Studies the childhood, youth, adulthood, and old age of Apache Native Culture: Dreamkeeper addresses themes developed as standards by the National Council for the Social Studies. women, past and present. http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/nations.html This site has links to the Tribal Nations' home pages. Note Time, Continuity, and Change: Examine the relationship American Indian Myths and Legends, edited by Richard of the past to the present and extrapolate into the future. Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz; Pantheon, 1984. One hundred the distinctions between official website home pages for • Individual Development and Identity: Examine how and sixty tales from 80 tribal groups from across the particular nations and websites about them. personal identity and behaviors are shaped by culture continent, told to the authors by living storytellers with the Tribe Listings: and by institutional influences. best of folklore sources. http://www.dickshovel.com/trbindex.html - Culture and Cultural Diversity: Comprehend multiple Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the Listing of tribes, with addresses, phone numbers, and fax perspectives of diverse cultural groups within society. American West, by Dee Alexander Brown; Henry Holt, numbers for those Native American nations recognized by Power, Authority, and Governance: Explore the ideals 1970. This deeply moving book changed the way the federal and state governments of the United States that form public policy and governance. and Canada. Americans think about Native Americans. Beginning in Production, Distribution, and Consumption: Analyze 1860 with the Long Walk of the Navajo and ending 30 economic issues and apply economic knowledge to years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and Museums societal conditions. children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how National Museum of the American Indian Civic ideals and Practices: Examine civic Ideals and the Indians lost their land and their lives. http://www.nmai.si.edu practices across time and in diverse societies. NMAI in Washington, D.C.: this museum on the National Visitwww.socialstudies.org for more information. Multimedia Mall, is scheduled to open in September 2004. Standards for Media Literacy The Lakota Way: Native American Wisdom on Ethics NMAI in New York: The George Gustav Heye Center, and Character (CD-ROM); by Joseph Marshall; Makoche Viewing Dreamkeeper and using this guide can help students Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling understand the two main standards that are for media literacy World, 2002. Selections from the book of the same name, Green, New York 10004; phone: 212-514-3700. and were developed by Mid-continent Research for with musical performances by noted American Indian Education and Learning. musicians. The Newberry Library in Chicago http://www.newberry.org/nl/newberryhome.htmi Viewing: Understand and interpret visual media, and How the West Was Lost, Volumes 1 and 2 (Video), The Newberry Library is an independent research library the variety of conventions used to convey messages. J. C. 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777e Dreamkeeper Guide for Educators was written by Liane B. Onish and edited by Peg Kolm. This guide was produced for Hallmark Entertainment by KIDSNET, a national resource for children's media in Washington, D.C. KIDSNET would like to Dreamkeeper\s rated TV-P6 for Night One thank social studies curriculum consultants Peggy Altoff and Syd Golston, both members of the National Council for the Social Studies, for their guidance on this (L-V) and TV 14 for Night Two. THi CINTiBIOfl 1H1 BDO« iw«Mr or cewsRtsj project. A reproducible one-page Dreamkeeper Family Viewing Guide, with ratings, content Some of the Native American legends advisory, and suggested activities is available at http://www.kidsnet.org. dramatized have occasional violent content, The Dreamkeeper Guide for Educators is available free atwww.kidsnet.org/abc/dreamkeeper and a few refer to sexual situations that are B and at the official Dreamkeeper site atwww.abc.com (keyword: Dreamkeeper). For more implied but not shown. These scenes are information, go to www.hallmarkent.com. consistent with the subject matter, in that EdPress they describe a range of Native American experience. We suggest that teachers and families consider the developmental level of Teachers may videotape Dreamkeeper for educational purposes only, and show it in the classroom no each child when watching this miniseries. more than two times from January 5, 2004 through January 14, 2004. The tape may be kept for review until As a media consultant to educators, February 17, 2004, at which time it must be erased. (These guidelines apply to programs recorded at home KIDSNET believes Dreamkeeper has or in school). Because of the interwoven story lines, educators are urged to carefully log the beginning significant value as a teaching tool when and end of each legend on the tape counter. Hallmark Entertainment will release a DreamkeeperDVQ, used in conjunction with the strategies which will contain the KIDSNET Guide for Educators, in March 2004. Go to http://www.hallmark.com for presented in this Guide for Educators. ordering information.

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Night One: Sunday December 28 9/8c ^ Night Two: Monday December 29 9/8c

The legends of the Native American nations come to life in this epic new miniseries from Hallmark Entertainment as two generations— a century-old storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old— embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery.

The two-part miniseries will complement the curriculum of middle and junior high school social studies, language arts and media literacy classes. A Dreamkeeper study guide is now available from KIDSNET, the national clearinghouse for children's media, at http://www.kidsnet.org. The guide contains a standards-based curriculum for middle school and was developed with the help of curriculum specialists who are members of the National Council for the Social Studies.

As this program airs during the December school holidays, Hallmark Entertainment has extended the off-air taping rights. Please consult the online guide for taping information and for an important content advisory. Teachers can download a Dreamkeeper Family Viewing Guide from http://www.kidsnet.org that contains ratings information, guidance on content, discussion questions and activities to send home prior to the winter break.

A dedicated website on Dreamkeeper can be found at www.abc.com keyword: Dreamkeeper