Research Topics

Native American History
Number, location, and names of tribes; culture: religious beliefs and ceremonies, sacred objects; conflicts with early European explorers/settlers; conflicts with U. S. Government and Army; treaties; creation of reservations;  Native American boarding schools, Red Power Movement; number and location of reservations today; powwows; Standing Rock protest and/or water protectors and resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline project; other Native resistance, discrimination against Native Americans.

U. S. History
Discrimination against Native Americans through laws, forced relocation; Manifest Destiny and broken treaties, conflicts with U. S. Army; expansion of railroads, boarding schools, loss of language; Dakota Access Pipeline location and damage caused by pipeline breaks.

Social Documentary Photography
Presents a particular theme or idea about society and life and supports a subjective, pre-conceived mindset regarding presenting and communicating its subject. Students can explore this subject to find and report on a social documentary photographer they admire.