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Vizenor, Gerald – American Indian Quarterly, 2006
In this article, the author discusses the life and works of an Anishinaabe expressionist artist George Morrison. Morrison was an eminent expressionist painter with a singular romantic vision and an erudite sense of natural reason and liberty. He created an elusive shimmer of "endless space," the color and eternal motion of nature. The…
Descriptors: Artists, Biographies, Art, Painting (Visual Arts)
Minneapolis Public Schools, MN. – 1976
This biography for elementary school students highlights the life of Charles Bender (Ojibwe), an American Indian who became a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953, and includes his photograph and a map of Minnesota showing his birthplace, Brainard. A teacher's guide following the biography contains background information on…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, American Indians, Athletes, Baseball
Minneapolis Public Schools, MN. – 1979
A biography for elementary school students of a 19th century American Indian physician and author, Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux), includes photographs of Dr. Eastman and his wife. A teacher's guide following the bibliography contains information on the Sioux Uprising of 1862 and the Wounded Knee Massacre, learning objectives and directions for…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Studies, American Indians, Authors
Kostich, Dragos D. – 1976
As 1 in a series of 24 American Indian biographies written for youth at the secondary level, this book details the social and professional development of George Morrison, an internationally known American Indian artist, who was born in a small Chippewa community in Northern Minnesota (1919) and began teaching art and American Indian Studies at the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Art Expression
Minneapolis Public Schools, MN. – 1977
A biography for elementary school students of Patrick Des Jarlait (Ojibwe), an American Indian painter, includes photographs of the artist and some of his work. A teacher's guide following the bibliography contains excerpts from the artist's published reminiscences about his childhood, learning objectives and directions for teachers, suggested…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, American Indians, Artists, Biographies
Minneapolis Public Schools, MN. – 1979
A biography for the elementary grades of Charles Huntington (Ojibwe), an American Indian sculptor, includes photographs of the artist and some of his work. A teacher's guide following the bibilography contains information on sculpture and the Ojibwe people, suggested activities for learning about sculpture and sculptors, learning objectives and…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, American Indians, Art Activities, Artists
Minneapolis Public Schools, MN. – 1979
A biography for elementary school students introduces Rosemary Shingobe Barstow, a Native American Ojibwe language instructor and bilingual education consultant. A teacher's guide following the bibliography contains suggested activities and worksheets, objectives, directions for teachers, vocabulary list, resource list, and an evaluation…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, American Indians, Bilingual Education, Biographies
Minneapolis Public Schools, MN. – 1979
A biography for the elementary grades of Carl Gawboy (Ojibwe), an American Indian painter, includes photographs of the artist and some of his work. A teacher's guide following the bibilography contains information on watercolor painting and the Ojibwe people, learning objectives and study questions, instructions for doing a watercolor painting and…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, American Indians, Art Activities, Artists
Wilson, Martha, Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
This list is based on the Minnesota school library list, Books for High Schools, 1913-14. The number of titles has been materially increased to include the suggestions of many high-school teachers, specialists in the Bureau of Education, high-school librarians, public librarians, and commission workers. The effort has been to provide a thoroughly…
Descriptors: School Libraries, High Schools, Educational Finance, Psychology