Lesson | Andrew Jackson and the “Children of the Forest” | | A lesson in which students develop critical literacy skills by responding to Andrew Jackson’s speech on “Indian Removal.” | America’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans |
Lesson | Discovering Columbus: Re-reading the Past | | Anchor Lesson: How to engage students in a critical analysis of the textbook version of “discovery.” | America’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans |
Reading | The Untold History of American Indian Slavery | | History of American Indian Slavery | America’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans |
Reading | An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States | | In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. | America’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans |
Video | Native America history and race | | Native America history | America’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans |
Lesson | The Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play | | Role play on the Cherokee-Seminole removal or Trail of Tears. | America’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans |