Focus Area 1: City Planning / Zoning
Housing construction:
Private/gated communities ("The Age of Walls…" from Gale)
Affordable housing ("Affordable Housing" from Gale)
Short term rentals ("Home Swapping and the Hospitality Industry: Overview" from EBSCO)
Commercial building (portions of "Commercial Zoning…" from Janover Commercial Real Estate Loans)
Focus Area 2: Infrastructure
Traffic ("Transportation Infrastructure" from Gale gives a bird's-eye view)
Water treatment (portions of "Water Use" from Gale)
Internet access ("The Digital Divide Is a Public Health Crisis…" from Gale)
Electrical Grid ("Balance of Power--Building a Resilient Electrical Grid" from Department of Homeland Security)
Focus Area 3: Parks and Recreation
Green spaces ("Green Streets…" from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Tourism ("Tourism" or "Ecotourism" from Gale)
Easements for land access ("Easement" from Gale)
Community Events ("Designing Effective Community Events" from World Bank)
Focus Area 4: Economic Development
Local Economics (“What ski towns tell us about the inequality crisis” from Deseret News)
Public Health and Safety ("Public Health and Personal Freedom" from Gale)
Homelessness ("Homelessness" from Gale)
Resort Tax ("I'm a Local. Should I Have to Pay the 'Resort Tax?'" from Outside Magazine)
MORE Local Government Resources
Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington (MSRC): nonprofit that provides legal and policy guidance to WA local governments
CivicWell: nonprofit that provides policy guidance for local governments with a focus on environment / sustainability
Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative: university program that provides teaching tools / case studies for local governments
National League of Cities: organization that advocates for local governments and provides policy resources
Second Great Awakening (reference article from ABC-CLIO)
Transcendentalism (reference article from EBSCO)
Temperance Movement (reference article from EBSCO)
Women's Rights/Suffrage Movements (reference article from ABC-CLIO)
Right to Free and Public Education (reference article from ABC-CLIO, especially the 2 sections "Land Ordinance..." and "Teaching Methods and Education Reform")
Utopian Communities of the 1800s (reference article from ABC-CLIO)
Abolitionist Movement (reference article from ABC-CLIO)
Strand 1: Art
Visual art: Interview with John Isaiah Pepion (article)
Dance: Traditional dances (article)
Music: Drums (article and video)
Poetry: Living Nations, Living Words (interactive) (scroll down to map, click on a pin, click "Listen to Poem and Commentary," either listen to audio at top, or read transcript of recording)
Clothing: Beadwork in Blackfeet moccasins (article)
Strand 2: Tradition & Heritage
Language: Blackfeet language school (article)
Naming: Reviving naming practices (article)
Oral tradition: Indigenous storytelling today (article/audio), or "Winter Counts" (p. 173) from this Library book (article)
Spirituality and nature: Thanksgiving Address (video)
Spirit animals: Relationship to animals (article)
Symbols of tribes and bands: Montana Tribal Flags and Seals (brochure), or "Appendix C: Seals of Montana Tribal Nations" (p. 34) in this Library book (images and descriptions)
Strand 3: Society
Rituals & ceremonies: Powwow in Browning (photo gallery), or Sweat lodge (article)
Food: Buffalo (article)
Gender: Gender roles (article), or Two Spirits (article)
Family structure: Plural marriages (article)
Death and grieving: "Blackfeet Understandings of Death" (article)
Strand 4: Exploration or Invasion?
Federal documents: Treaties around the events of Fools Crow (article)
Sovereignty: What is sovereignty? (article), or "Essential Understanding Seven" from this Library book (article)
Reservation: One Word Interviews: Reservation (video)
"Westward Expansion": Oregon Trail game revamp (article), or Homestead Act (video and article)
Ancient History Encyclopedia: encyclopedia dedicated to ancient history
Eyewitness to History: primary sources (find topics by browsing, rather than search bar)
Internet History Sourcebooks Project: primary sources (find topics by browsing, rather than search bar)
ABC-CLIO "World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras" (through 1500), or "World History: Modern Era" (since 1500): original content by experts
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