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Unit IV
Resources
The State
of Our Lives: Being a Louisiana Neighbor
Find resources helpful for
Unit IV lessons below. Specific resources are also listed in
individual lessons. More resources may be found in the Louisiana Folklife Recommended
Reading List and Louisiana Folklife
Bibliography. Resources marked with an asterisk (*)
are available from the CARTS Catalog, 800/333-5982.
- Allen, Barbara. Sense
of Place: American Regional Culture. University Press of
Kentucky, 1992. A good teacher resource on studying place, $15.
- Alvarez, Louis, and Andrew
Kolker. Yeah, You Rite! Center
for New American Media, 1984. 28 minutes. This look at
the various linguistic dialects found in New Orleans reveals
what people learn and assume based on language and treats issues
about language attitudes. The documentary brings together history
and linguistics to demonstrate how New Orleans became such a
linguistically diverse city. Using both interviews with people
on the street and cultural experts, the film displays a mix of
perspectives.
- Comeaux, Malcolm. Atchafalaya
Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations. Vol. 2 of Geoscience
and Man. Louisiana State University School of Geoscience, 1972.
- Duhe, Jeff. Louisiana
Parade I: Camp Ruston--German POW Camp. Louisiana Public
Broadcasting, N.d. A 15-minute look at the German POW camp in
Ruston through interviews with former camp workers and local
residents. Available through Louisiana Public Broadcasting Instructional Television.
- Duhe, Jeff. Louisiana
Parade I: Chenier Caminada and the Hurricane of 1893. Louisiana
Public Broadcasting, N.d. The story of the disastrous hurricane
of 1893 told through oral family histories of Chenier Caminada,
Leeville, Golden Meadow, Grand Isle area, 14 minutes. Available
through Louisiana Public Broadcasting Instructional Television.
- Duhe, Jeff. Louisiana
Parade II: Poverty Point. Louisiana Public Broadcasting,
N.d. A brief look at the theories about Poverty Point's ancient
American Indian population, the site preservation, and educational
programs at Poverty Point, 15 minutes. Available through Louisiana Public Broadcasting Instructional Television.
- Duhe, Jeff. Louisiana
Parade II: The Irish in New Orleans. Louisiana Public Broadcasting,
N.d. The film looks at the history of the Irish in New Orleans
and the revival of Irish cultural pride. 10 minutes. Available
through Louisiana Public Broadcasting Instructional Television.
- Harris, Sara Ann. Habitat Study Unit.
Louisiana Seafood Board, N.d. Suitable for grades 8-12 and adults, this unit is keyed to
Louisiana Content Standards for Environmental Science and Geography and includes activities, posters, and reading. The online video Living on the Edge can be used as
an enrichment activity. The unit teaches the basics of Louisiana's
seafood fisheries, including the importance of habitat, identification of key seafood species,
productivity of a saltwater marsh, Louisiana's ranking as a seafood producer, and the causes
and solutions to coastal wetland habitat loss. Available from the Louisiana Seafood Board,
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 1600 Canal Street, Suite 210, New
Orleans, LA 70112, 800-222-4017.
- Harris, Sara Ann. Lifeways Study Unit.
Louisiana Seafood Board, N.d. Suitable for grades 8-12 and adults, this unit is keyed
to Louisiana Content Standards for Geography and History and includes activities, posters,
and reading. Three sections of the video may be used as an enrichment activitiy. The unit explores how
the fisher/shrimper/oyster-farmer lifeway has been passed down for generations and how the families' lives were shaped by the forces of nature in the coastal
lowlands of Louisiana. To survive in a constantly changing environment, people developed strong family
ties, self-reliance, and special trade skills on the water. Available
from the Louisiana Seafood Board, Louisiana Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries, 1600 Canal Street, Suite 210, New
Orleans, LA 70112, 800-222-4017.
- Hopkins, Martha E., et al.
The Language of the Land: The Library of Congress Book of
Literary Maps. Library of Congress, 1999. Features over 200
literary maps from the Library's collections, including real
and imaginary places, $50.
- Lippard, Lucy. The Lure
of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society.
New Press, 1997. This art writer's sophisticated take on the
significance of place in the contemporary U.S. offers teachers
a fresh way of looking at landscape and culture, $19.95.
- Louisiana Folklife Program.
Folklife in the Florida Parishes. Louisiana Folklife Program
and Center for Regional Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University,
1989. Although out of print, many libraries in the state have
this useful book of articles and photos of many traditions and
ethnic groups of the Florida parishes.
- Louisiana Public Broadcasting.
Ernest J.
Gaines: Louisiana Stories, 1-hour video for grades
6-12 on the life and work of the author of Miss Jane Pittman,
A Gathering of Old Men, and A Lesson Before Dying.
Contact LPB, 225/767-4204.
- Onebane, Donna. Voices
of Pointe Noire: A Study of Place and Identity. Diss. University
of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1999. An excellent source for any
study of South Louisiana or sense of place. Available in libraries
through Dissertation Abstracts.
- Pitre, Glen. The Chitimacha.
Cote Blanche Productions, 1995. A 12-minute video explains the
Chitimacha Indians origins, legends and folkways, including river
cane basket weaving, going back to prehistoric times.
- Pitre, Glen. Haunted Waters-Fragile
Lands: Oh, What Tales to Tell! Louisiana Department of Environmental
Quality, 1994. This documentary presented by the Barataria-Terrebonne
National Estuary Program uses folklore, history, cultural anthropology,
wetlands ecology, biology, and geography to explore the Barataria-Terrebonne
area of Southeastern Louisiana. In this "story of people
and the environment," the theme that emerges is "The
things we do can have enormous, unexpected consequences."
1 hour. Available free through the Barataria-Terrebonne National
Estuary Program, 800/259-0869, P.O. Box 2663, Thibodaux, LA 70310.
- Ryden, Kent. Mapping the
Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place.
University of Iowa Press, 1993. Another teacher resource linking
sense of place, folklife, and writing. $17.95.
- Sillery, Barbara. Hidden
Nation: The Story of the Houmas, Louisiana's Largest Native
American Tribe, 57 minutes. Keepsake Productions, 1993. This
film gives a detailed account of the Houmas' history and traces
their migration to their present home in Terrebonne and Lafourche
parishes. The film features numerous interviews with Houma people.
- Sobel, David. Mapmaking
with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years.
Heinemann Press, 1998. K-8 resource for studying the geography
of childhood, map grids, mapping perspectives, and related children's
literature, $24.95.*
- Spitzer, Nicholas R., ed.
Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State. Louisiana Office
of Cultural Development, 1985. Although out of print, this useful
guide may be found in most public libraries in the state. See table of contents online.
- Sunstein, Bonnie and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater.
FieldWorking: Reading and Writing Research.
Prentice Hall, 2002. This teacher resource provides excellent
exercises to aid students' fieldwork, observation, and writing
skills.*
- Taylor, David. Documenting Maritime
Folklife, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress,
1993. This resource illustrates the types of information students
could collect in a maritime region to explore sense of place,
geography, and folklife. Free online or available from the Center,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540, 202/707-6590, $10.
- Turner, Karl. Living on the Edge. Louisiana
Seafood Board, 1999. A 53-minute video of fishing families
telling their stories and challenges their heritage faces today.
Suitable for grades 8-12 and adults. Available through parish
libraries, 53 min. "Teacher's Guide to the Documentary for
Eighth Grade and Up," "Louisiana's Seafood Lifeway:
The Educators Companion Reader," and a poster are also available
for $7.50 from the Louisiana Seafood Board, Louisiana Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries, 1600 Canal Street, Suite 210, New
Orleans, LA 70112, 800-222-4017.
- United States Geological Survey (USGS). Quadrangle Maps. Even though some of these maps
use dated information, they will be valuable. Quadrangle
maps show roads, railways, and waterways in addition to buildings,
cemeteries, junkyards, oil tanks, parks, and a long list of other
structures. The scale remains the same, so the number of maps
needed varies. A parish may be displayed
in one to four maps. Maps are available from the USGS (888-ASK-USGS), map stores, or the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (800-259-4929 or 225-379-1107). Call in advance to determine the number
of maps you need. Maps cost $4 each plus tax.
- Viola, Herman and Carolyn
Margolis. Seeds of Change. Smithsonian Institution Press,
1992. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibit of the
same name, this book richly describes animal, agricultural, and
cultural exchanges after Columbus's voyages, $45.
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