| Module 2 - The Refugee Experience |
| YouTube - The White Helmets | As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble. |
| PBS - Frontline - Exodus | The first-person stories of refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and hardship — drawing on footage filmed by the families themselves as they leave their homes on dangerous journeys in search of safety and refuge in Europe. |
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| Exit West | A New York Times bestseller, the astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands. |
| NYT Article - Better to Drown | A Greek Refugee Camp's Epidemic of Misery |
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| Module 3 - Indigenous Peoples |
| Documentary: 'Little War on the Prairie' | The controversy over the "Scaffold" sculpture at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in Minneapolis has drawn new attention to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Specifically, a mass hanging in Mankato, Minn. |
| Daktoa 38 | In 2005 A Native Spiritual Leader rides across the great planes of South Dakota to honor the 38 hanged Native Americans (1862) |
| Book - Night Flying Woman | Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, born ~1850. Minnesota Ojibway |
| PBS - We Shall Remain | From KUED comes a powerful five-part-series on the five American Indian Tribes of the Great Basin Region we now know as Utah. This episode examines the history of the Northwestern Shoshone tribe of American Indians that have called Utah home for centuries. |
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| Module 4 - The Next Generation |
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| Movie - Joy Luck Club (1993) | Four older women, all Chinese immigrants living in San Francisco, meet regularly to play mahjong, eat, and tell stories. Each of these women has an adult Chinese-American daughter. The film reveals the hidden pasts of the older women and their daughters and how their lives are shaped by the clash of Chinese and American cultures as they strive to understand their family bonds and one another. |
| Book - American Born Chinese | A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school |
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| Poem Interpretation - My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears |
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