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Section #1: PBS Untold Stories Project

View the video segment, read the PDF file, and complete the study guide for each of the Untold Stories on African Americans, Native Americans, and Japanese Americans.

Note that the study guides can be used as reference material for the exam. You DO NOT have to turn in the study guides. This will be the only online assignment that will also require information for an exam.

Respond to each of the essay questions below:

Yosemite Buffalo Soldiers

1. African American tourists comprise less than one percent of the visitation to Yosemite National Park. Shelton Johnson has made it his life’s work to connect the general African American population to the national parks. Present ideas that you have that would result in the national parks being more attractive to African Americans as a tourism destination.

Mount Rushmore, Telling America’s Stories

2. Gerard Baker is the first American Indian to be Superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Discuss your thoughts on the inclusion of American Indian history and culture, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. In other words, to what extent should Native American history be interpreted in our national parks? What, specifically, should tourists be exposed to in terms of Native American history?

Manzanar, Never Again

3. How should our country at war balance our citizens’ civil liberties and the need for national security? What relevance does this period of history have in our world today (think 9/11)? How does the fact that our country established a national site to honor a difficult period in our past reflect on us as a nation? What is it that tourists should learn about when they visit Manzanar?

Length: Three to five pages

Recommended Date of Completion: As listed on the course calendar.

Points: 15

Again, the entire Portfolio is not due until the end of the semester as indicated on the first page of this document. Please read all of those directions carefully prior to submitting your Portfolio at the end of the semester. In other words, you don’t submit anything now, but rather at the end of the semester when the whole project is due. Your Portfolio will consist of ONE document to be submitted on Blackboard.

MATERIALS:

1- Yosemite Buffalo Soldiers Video Segment

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watch-video/ - 858 Read these directions carefully for success in watching the video clip. Click on the link above. THEN scroll down to the row that says "Untold Stories, This is America, and Park Timeline." THEN click on 5. Untold Stories--Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers (11:28)

--YOUTUBE LINK: (for the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBb9DoziY7M

2- Mount Rushmore Video Segment
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watch-video/#857 Read these directions carefully for success is watching the video clip. Click on the link above. THEN scroll down to the row that says "Untold Stories, This is America, and Park Timeline." THEN click on 3. Untold Stories--Mount Rushmore (9:29)

--YOUTUBE LINK: (for the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWZYyqJV_Zg

3- Manzanar: "Never Again"--Video Segment

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/watch-video/#856 Read these directions carefully for success is watching the video clip. Click on the link above. THEN scroll down to the row that says "Untold Stories, This is America, and Park Timeline." THEN click on 2. Untold Stories--Manzanar (14:22).

--YOUTUBE LINK: (for the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgmY2P-xT_Y