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Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
Students from Pryor High School and Locust Grove Public Schools partnered with the Saline Preservation Association and other community partners to help save one of the only remaining 19th century Cherokee district courthouses.The Saline Preservation Association is a local organization that was created to raise funds to restore and preserve the building and its grounds. Students helped educate and involve others in the importance of saving the Saline courthouse.
The Pryor school project curricula focused on the areas of history, language arts, and technology. Students developed and refined skills in research, interviewing, writing, word processing, editing, and video production. They produced both a book and a DVD which was distributed to a wider public.
The Locust Grove schools also focused on history and language arts but incorporated science and culture as well. Students studied the foliage of the site and produced a book identifying plants and trees by their scientific, Cherokee, and English names.
During the process all students were exposed to technology as they learned how to use ground penetrating radar equipment Students also learned from a historian about the difference between established fact and legends that evolve from storytelling. To see the Cherokee Nation Learn and Serve PowerPoint presentation from the National Trust Conference and gain more details about the Saline courthouse project and other efforts, click here (8800K pdf).
