Understanding and Teaching Native American History

✍ Scribed by Kristofer Ray (editor), Brady DeSanti (editor)

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Series: Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
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 Acknowledgments 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
čwè·ˀn neyękwaˀnawè·rih: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from a Native Student | Taylor Hummel
Contributors
Index