The website http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/asian/japan/resource is a great site for all kinds of investigation on Asia. In that site I went to a link http://www.ainu-museum.or.jp/english.html and toured The Ainu Museum. Since I am a bit of Cherokee, I have always been interested in indigenous cultures. The resources on this site are selected by the Library of Congress Subject Experts and appear very reliable. I learned about the Ainu’s oppression by the Japanese, their history, housing, eating habits, sacred dances, oral literature and the New Ainu Law. It’s interesting to compare this with the Native American tribes in the United States. Since I teach BLACK ELK SPEAKS, it could be interesting for students to see that in Japan, as in the United States, a conquering people do treat the indigenous peoples pretty much the same--badly.
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