Matthew Shepard Foundation - response to 20/20 episode

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The Matthew Shepard Foundation provides links, a viewer's guide and information about the recent 20/20 episode asserting that this crime was not hate-motivated.

Amnesty International Canada

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Amnesty International Canada is an excellent resource for current news and actions surrounding human rights issues. The section on Canada would provide interesting talking points in classrooms. There is Amnesty Youth which includes ways to take action, and a Resource Centre for teachers.

Redefine Whitney McNally -- the proliferation of Asian stereotypes in Details magazine

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This site is a response to a recent (April 2004) Details magazine article "Gay or Asian" (p.52) written by Whitney McNally:

"Help make the name Whitney McNally synonymous with the continuation and proliferation of Asian stereotypes! Help define what Whitney McNally means!!! Link this website on your websites or blogs. Let's make this the No.1 google search for Details magazine and Whitney McNally! "

"Tolerance in Films" (UNESCO)

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Education International and UNESCO have released a directory of films on tolerance for teachers.

A brief guide accompanies the list online.

Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education

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Leslie G. Roman and Linda Eyre, eds. Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education. New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 288.

"This timely collection contributes richly detailed and perceptive analyses of how educational policies and practices have come to be constituted so that questions of effectiveness and efficiency now prevail over “other” concerns, rendering many of the authors and the students to whom they feel accountable are marked as marginal and different. At the same time, many papers offer exemplary illustrations of a range of conceptual strategies and methodologies, useful both for their content and for how their approaches might be modified and applied elsewhere. Most of all, Dangerous Territories raises important and troubling questions for anyone who wishes to practice and promote critical education in contemporary schools and universities."
(from Historical Studies in Education review)

"Two Teenagers in Twenty..."

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Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth

( read an exerpt )

"Twelve years after compiling One Teenager in Ten, the first book ever to allow dozens of teenagers to describe what it’s like to be gay or lesbian, Ann Heron asked for stories from a new generation. She found that their sense of isolation and despair runs every bit as deep as it did a decade earlier. Two Teenagers in Twenty combines these new voices with many essays from her first book. It will greatly ease the way for teenagers just now coming out and the adults who seek to support them."

YouthCO AIDS Society

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Youth Community Outreach (YouthCO) AIDS Society is a youth-driven non-profit organization working to involve youth ages 15-29 from all communities in addressing HIV/AIDS and related issues.

GLSEN's online resources library

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The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, or GLSEN (U.S.), is working to ensure safe and effective schools for all students. Check out their online library of resources.

Oasismag | An online Writing Community for Queer and Questioning Youth.

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Oasismag.com is a U.S.-based site features news, personal journals and a forum for queer and questioning youth.

"Hatred in the Hallways"

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Youth Suicide Problems: Gay/Bisexual Male Focus

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This site has many links to resources and articles surrounding gay and bisexual male suicide problems and related issues.

"The evidence indicates that homosexually oriented males account for more than half of male youth suicide problems, but mainstream suicidologists generally continue to ignore this aspect of the problem. Information about lesbian youth suicide problems is included, as is other generally unrecognized factors possibly associated with youth suicide problems." (quote from site)

Youthquest!

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Youthquest! is Canada's largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth.

They provide:
safe & supportive drop-in sites (link to BC locations and times) which also arrange fun activities,

a toll-free support line ( 1 866 NOT ALONE ),

anti-bullying training (Strengthening the Foundation: Enhancing the Safety of At-Risk Youth, a project "to prevent homophobic bullying, harassment and violence, all of which lead to the increased risk to LGBTQ youth for sexual exploitation, higher suicide rates, higher rates of substance misuse, as well as a increased risk of youth being in conflict with the law.").

"Challenging Homophobia In Schools"

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This teacher's resource book, "Challenging Homophobia In Schools" (2000. Vancouver) is a comprehensive new professional resource produced by Gay and Lesbian Educators of BC (GALE-BC).

Their site features some sample lesson plans.

"This resource includes lots of practical lesson plans from K-12 as well as a rationale on why schools need to teach about sexual orientation. A comprehensive background section on homophobia and heterosexism includes information on: negative myths perpetuated against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, coming out issues, counselling ideas, violence prevention strategies, dealing with anti-gay slurs and how to support students by starting gay-straight alliances in schools.

Teachers are provided with lots of concrete, practical strategies and lesson plans written by classroom teachers. The resource section provides a wide range of age-appropriate classroom resources from K-12 as well as parent and professional resources. Community groups and support services for LGBT people and relevant web sites are also listed." (quote from site)

Urban Native Youth Association (UNYA)

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UNYA's mandate is to help Native youth in the urban setting.

Vancouver Pride

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Vancouver Pride Week is 2004 - July 23 to August 2. Check out their site for events.

CFRO 102.7 - Metis Matters / Kla How Yah FM

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CFRO 102.7 Co-op Radio:

"Metis Matters" Wednesdays at 5-6pm.
Host: Ken Fisher. Metis Matters is a good mix of music and guests to talk about the other Aboriginal people, Canada's people of mixed ancestry, part white European and Indian of various percentages. Alternates with Main + Hastings - radio rough-edged from the downtown eastside. Political satire, street poetry, local politics, and native rights.

"Kla How Yah FM" Thursdays at 5-6pm.
Hostess: Kelly White. Tune in and take part in Native News Hour! Indigenous people are profiled from the arts and music, as well as current issues covered from the international, national and provincial scene. Weekly Calendar of Events across B.C. and Canada! In your honour (don't touch that dial).

PFLAG

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PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
Support group for parents and family members of LGBT’s. Discussion, education, resource materials, and advocacy for equal rights. All welcome at monthly meetings.
See website for more information and a list of chapters throughout Canada.
Vancouver:
604-684-9872 (Ext. 2060) or 604-689-3711
betew@intergate.bc.ca
8602 Granville St., PO Box 30075, Vancouver, BC V6P 5A0

Oyate.org - list of books for high school

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For a listing of books for 'high-school up' and 'Books to Avoid'.

Reservation Blues

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Reservation Blues by Alexie, Sherman (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene). 1995.

"In the 111-year life of the Spokane Indian reservation, not one person has arrived by accident-until the day the black stranger appears with nothing more than the suit he wears and the guitar slung over his back. The man happens to be the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. And when he passes his enchanted instrument to young Thomas-Builds-the-Fire-storyteller, misfit, and musician-a magical odyssey begins. From reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan, Thomas and his Coyote Springs bandmates careen through ancestral nightmares and rock-and-roll dreams, sounding chords of celebration and survival as timeless as their tribe." (summary from website)

The Business of Fancydancing

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Sherman Alexie, (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene), “The Business of Fancydancing” (2002).

"A poetic story of growth, death and the choices that define us, The Business of Fancydancing reunites Spokane Reservation best friends Aristotle Joseph (Gene Tagaban) and Seymour Polatkin (Evan Adams) sixteen years after their high school graduation." (from above site)

Smoke Signals

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Sherman Alexie, (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene), “Smoke Signals” . 1999.

Set in Arizona, Smoke Signals is the story of two Indian boys on a journey. Victor (Adam Beach) is the stoic, handsome son of an alcoholic father who has abandoned his family. Thomas (Evan Adams) is a gregarious, goofy young man who lost both his parents in a fire at a very young age. Through storytelling, Thomas makes every effort to connect with the people around him; Victor, in contrast, uses his quiet countenance to gain strength and confidence. When Victor's estranged father dies, the two men embark on an adventure to Phoenix to collect the ashes. Along the way, Smoke Signals illustrates the ties that bind these two very different young men and embraces the lessons they learn from one another. (summary from website above)

Adaptation of Bafa Bafa game

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Hicks, D. Bafa Bafa in Minorities. London: Heinemann Educational, 1981. pp. 82-85.

Adaptations of Bafa Bafa

This is just a simpler version of the Bafa Bafa game. It basically goes along the same premise of the original game, but each group develops their own culture rather than following the outline of the Beta and Alpha cultures.

Bafa Bafa Activity

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In BaFá BaFá participants come to understand the powerful effects that culture plays in every person's life. It may be used to help participants prepare for living and working in another culture or to learn how to work with people from other departments, disciplines, genders, races, and ages. Here are a few of the ways BaFá BaFá has been used in the hundreds of thousands times it has been run around the world:

* Build awareness of how cultural differences can profoundly impact people in an organization.
* Motivate participants to rethink their behavior and attitude toward others.
* Allow participants to examine their own bias and focus on how they perceive differences.
* Examine how stereotypes are developed, barriers created, and misunderstandings magnified.
* Identify diversity issues within the organization that must be addressed.

kstrom.net : Native American Books

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NATIVE AMERICAN BOOKS: Reviews of Books by, about Native Americans.

Also, List of children's books that Teachers must have.

The people these reviews are intended for are currently seen primarily as educators and librarians in K -12 schools, and for college Native Studies. But of course reviews are useful to students, too, as a guide to research.

CoAction -- antiracism.com

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Anti-racism CoAction Diversity and Communication Consultants -- and their online resources.

"coAction provides skills to schools and organizations in which learning environments of emotional, psychological and intellectual safety can pave the way to on-going engagement of critical thinking and multiple perspectives."

Racism. Stop it. Govt of Canada website

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International day for the elimination of racism, March 21st. Also see “links” for more websites.

Take part in the Racism. Stop It! National Video Competition !

This campaign involves thousands of young Canadians in every province and territory. It requires little or no acting experience but requires one to have fun. It also allows individuals to move beyond the recognition of the problem and take action to Stop It!

Oyate.org

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"Oyate is a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that all people will know our stories belong to us. For Native children, it is as important as it has ever been for them to know who they are and what they come from. It is a matter of survival. For all children, it is time to learn the truth of history. Only in this way will they come to have the understanding and respect for each other that now, more than ever, will be necessary for life to continue."

Our work includes evaluation of texts, resource materials and fiction by and about Native peoples; conducting of teacher workshops, in which participants learn to evaluate children's material for anti-Indian biases; administration of a small resource center and library; and distribution of children's, young adult, and teacher books and materials, with an emphasis on writing and illustration by Native people.

Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice

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