From Robert McDonald, CSKT Communications Director:
In September, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes launched a myth-busting Web site that sought to address long-held misconceptions about American Indians. To date, the Montana state office of Public Instruction has endorsed the site along with area newspapers. Local school districts have used it in the curriculum as a resource and recently history professors from the University of Indiana and Purdue University have been using the site.
I hope you will investigate this approach of animation and humor to address some thorny topics. I’ve also heard parents on the reservation say it’s a great resource for their children in school when they are confronted with a classmate who’s pumped up on ignorance from their household. The idea was that the more complicated conversations, like the tribal-federal relationship, cannot be fully understood unless these essential understandings are understood as sort of an Indian 101.
The site is:
click on the faces to start one of nine experiences.
Turtle Talk 