How to Use
the Bdote Memory Map Site
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1. Explore. Click around to investigate Native voices speaking about an area that is central to Native life in Minnesota. On this site you'll find:
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a. An introductory video on the Welcome - We are Home page.
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b. Essential background information on the People and Place page.
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c. The Bdote Memory Map, the center point for navigating to pages about specific sites in the Twin Cities. (ALL core pages can be reached from the Memory Map.)
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d. Videos, photos and written information on nine sites that are significant to Dakota culture. We recommend viewing site pages in the order of the list on the Memory Map page (beginning with Bdote), but if you are led differently, that’s fine.
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e. Lists and links of resources for learning more about Dakota people.
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f. Interviews about urban Native life from the multimedia installation, City Indians.
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e. Navigation options -- from the Memory Map, the Resources page, Share YOUR Stories pages, and the navigation bar at the bottom of each major page. The Resources page also has links to a website chart and an alternative navigation page.
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You can now incorporate the voices of Dakota (and other Native) people into your curriculum -- and share your memories of experiences along the Twin Cities waterways -- with the click of a button.
2. Use the information. Dakota people have graciously shared their culture and knowledge about living in the Twin Cities, so that reliable information can be incorporated into the classrooms of Minnesota. The information here can support instruction in US and Minnesota history, geography, Native studies, social studies and other areas of the curriculum. On the photo album pages, you will find specific questions that may spark project ideas.
3. Share your experiences. Photos, videos and written material generated by students and teachers can be added and explored by students and teachers, through the Share YOUR Stories blog pages.
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