Objectifs - Supports

Objectifs

Culturels

• Découverte d’un aspect des relations entre les Indiens d’Amérique et les colons, puis leurs descendants. Ce thème s’inscrit dans la découverte du monde américain.

Communicatifs

• Compréhension orale :
  • Comprendre une interview.
• Expression orale :
  • Décrire une image. 
    

Langagiers

• Lexique :
  • Représentation picturale et photographique.
  • Habillement.
  • Artisanat. 
    

Documents supports

Document 1 :
Œuvres amérindiennes sur le site National Museum of the American Indian Indian, www.nmai.si.edu/.
Cliquer sur Exhibitions puis sur Online Exhibitions puis First American Art.

Document 2 :
Compréhension orale de l’interview d’un musicien indien, Chris Lamarr, qui, par le rap, essaie de toucher la jeunesse indienne.
www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices/vol2/track8.html (lien direct)

Script de la première partie de l’interview
Chris Lamarr, a Pitt River Paiute, raised in Oakland, is counting on it: drawing their musical roots from rappers like Public Enemy, Chris and his group deliver music with a strong message for Indian youth.
(rap music)
“Now, CP’s rap music’s real big. We met some other Native people down there, Cabineers and Mike Marian, who were into rap music and we just decided to try to put something together. We never heard of real Native rap before we started. It was back in 1992. The Cs is the one who got us started. They were sponsoring festivals about Christopher Columbus and celebrating what he did. There was really no mention of Native people and what they had to go through in Columbus’ supposedly discovering America. So a lot of Native people really stood up at that time and we came together with the music and our message talked about self-empowerment; it talked about being proud of being a Native person; it talked about what things our Native people had to go through, through history and present. People liked the message. They think it was something that they were maybe waiting for. Everybody wants to think it’s not cool to be Indian, but it’s the greatest thing in the world. When I go and talk to kids, to Native youth, I say, ‘Understand that the creator intended for your people to be on this land, and in America, everybody else here came from somewhere else, but the Creator chose you to be here,’ and that should mean something to them. It definitely means something to me.”

Document 3
Tableau « George Catlin painting a Chief » et son texte d’accompagnement sur le site National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov/kids/catlin/catlin1.htm (lien direct)

Document 4
Photographie d’un couple d’Indiens en voiture sur le site de la bibliothèque de l’université de Saskatchewan sur le site University of Saskatchewan, http://library2.usask.ca/native/nphoto/spl047.jpg?q=native/nphoto/spl047.jpg (lien direct)