Understanding and Teaching Native American History

Kristofer Ray (Edited by), Brady DeSanti (Edited by)

9780299338503

Hardback, published 30 August 2022

272 pages, 15 b&w illustrations
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.182 kg

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.

• Introduction
• Part One: Reflections on Teaching Native American History
• Chapter One: Learning to Teach Indian History: A Memoir
• By Theda Perdue
• Chapter Two: Teaching American Indian History Using the Medicine Way
• By Donald Fixico
• Chapter Three: Transnational History and Deep Time: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from Australia
• By Ann McGrath
• Chapter Four: Being There: Experiential Learning by Living Native American History
• By Bernard Perley
• Chapter Five: 
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• By Taylor Hummel
• Part Two: Reflections on Invasions, Epidemics, War and Genocide
• Chapter Six: Before Columbus: Native American History, Archeology, and Resources
• By Maureen Meyers
• Chapter Seven: Teaching and Understanding Genocide in Native America
• By Gray Whaley
• Chapter Eight: The “
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• By Tai S. Edwards
• Chapter Nine: Teaching Indian Wars
• By Mark van de Logt
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  Part Three: Essential Topics in Native American History
• Chapter Ten: Teaching Indian Slavery: From First Slaves to Early Abolitionists in Four Myths
• By Denise I. Bossy
• Chapter Eleven: Teaching the American Revolution from Indian Country
• By Charles W. Prior
• Chapter Twelve: Teaching the Broad and Relevant History of American Indian Removal
• By John Bowes
• Chapter Thirteen: Teaching and Understanding the History of Allotment
• By Rose Stremlau
• Chapter Fourteen: Teaching Federal Indian Law through Literature
• By N. Bruce Duthu
• Chapter Fifteen: Nation-to-Nation: Understanding Treaties and Sovereignty
• By Margaret Huettl 
  
• Chapter Sixteen: Teaching Indigenous Environmental History
• By Paul Kelton and James Rice
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  Part Four: Reflections on Identity and Cultural Appropriation
• Chapter Seventeen: An Appropriate Past: Seminole Indians, Osceola, and Florida State University
• By Andrew K. Frank
• Chapter Eighteen: Looking Past the Racial Classification System: Teaching Southeastern Native Survival Using the Peoplehood Model
• By Marvin Richardson
• Chapter Nineteen: Teaching Native American Religions and Philosophies in the Classroom
• By Brady DeSanti
• Chapter Twenty: Sustenance as Culture and Tradition: Teaching About Indigenous Foodways
• By Devon A. Mihesuah 
  
• Chapter Twenty-One: Native American Art 101
• By Nancy Marie Mithlo