Understanding and teaching Native American history / edited by Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti.

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 desi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ray, Kristofer (Editor), DeSanti, Brady J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2022]
Series:Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kristofer Ray and Brady DeSanti
  • Part One: Essential Topics in Native American History
  • Before Columbus: Native American History, Archaeology, and Resources / Maureen Meyers
  • The "Virgin" Soil Thesis Cover-Up: Teaching Indigenous Demographic Collapse / Tai S. Edwards
  • Understanding and Teaching Native American Slavery: From First Slaves to Early Abolitionists in Four Myths / Denise I. Bossy
  • Teaching the 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
  • Storied Lands; Storied Peoples: Teaching the History of Federal Indian Law through Native American Literature / N. Bruce Duthu
  • Nation to Nation: Understanding Treaties and Sovereignty / Margaret Huettl
  • Teaching Indigenous Environmental Histories / Paul Kelton and James D. Rice
  • Teaching and Understanding Genocide in Native America / Gray H. Whaley
  • Part Two: Reflections on Identity and Cultural Appropriation
  • An 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 M. Richardson
  • Teaching Native American Religions and Philosophies in the Classroom / Brady DeSanti
  • Sustenance as Culture and Tradition: Teaching about Indigenous Foodways of North America / 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
  • How I Learned 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
  • ẅ·°n neyekwa°naẅrih: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from a Native Student / Taylor Hummel.