Understanding and Teaching Native American History / edited by Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Kristofer, editor.

DeSanti, Brady J., editor.

Series:

Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.

The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--History--Study and teaching.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous people--History--Study and teaching.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--History--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Understanding and Teaching Native American History is a timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction. While the past three decades have seen burgeoning scholarship in Indigenous studies, comparatively little of that has trickled into classrooms. This volume is designed to help teachers effectively integrate Indigenous history and culture into their lessons, providing richly researched content and resources across the chronological and geographical landscape of what is now known as North America. Despite the availability of new scholarship, many teachers struggle with contextualizing Indigenous history and experience. Native peoples frequently find themselves relegated to historical descriptions, merely a foil to the European settlers who are the protagonists in the dominant North American narrative. This book offers a way forward, an alternative framing of the story that highlights the ongoing integral role of Native peoples via broad coverage in a variety of topics including the historical, political, and cultural. With its scope and clarity of vision, suggestions for navigating sensitive topics, and a multitude of innovative approaches authored by contributors from multidisciplinary backgrounds, Understanding and Teaching Native American History will also find use in methods and other graduate courses. Nearly a decade in the conception and making, this is a groundbreaking source for both beginning and veteran instructors."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction / Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti

Part One: Essential Topics in Native American History

Before Columbus: Native American History, Archeology, and Resources / Maureen Meyers

The "Virgin" Soil Thesis Cover-Up: Teaching Indigenous Demographic Collapse / Tai S. Edwards

Teaching Indigenous Slavery: From First Slaves to Early Abolitionists in Four Myths / Denise I. Bossy

Teaching Indian Wars / Mark van de Logt

Teaching the Broad and Relevant History of American Indian Removal / John P. Bowes

Teaching the History of Allotment / Rose Stremlau

Teaching Federal Indian Law through Literature / N. Bruce Duthu

Nation to Nation: Understanding Treaties and Sovereignty / Margaret Huettl

Teaching Indigenous Environmental Histories / Paul Kelton and James Rice

Teaching and Understanding Genocide in Native America / Gray H. Whaley

Part Two: Reflections on Identity and Cultural AppropriationAn Appropriate Past: Seminole Indians, Osceola, and Florida State University / Andrew K. Frank

Looking Past the Racial Classification System: Teaching Southeastern Native Survival Using the Peoplehood Model / Marvin Richardson

Teaching Native American Religions and Philosophies in the Classroom / Brady DeSanti

Sustenance as Culture and Tradition: Teaching about Indigenous Foodways / Devon A. Mihesuah

Native American Art 101 / Nancy Marie Mithlo

Land Acknowledgements in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Empty Gesture / Joshua Thunder Little and Miye Nadya Tom

Part Three: Reflections on Teaching Native American History

Learning to Teach Indian History: A Memoir / Theda Perdue

Teaching American Indian History Using the Medicine Way / Donald L. Fixico

Transnational History and Deep Time: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from Australia / Ann McGrath

Being There: Experiential Learning by Living Native American History / Bernard C. Perley

čwè·ˀn neyękwaˀnawèrih: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from a Native Student / Taylor Hummel.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780299338534

0299338533

OCLC:

1335410689