Ted Tenorio, Native American Veterans Association president and Army Vietnam veteran, from the Tigua tribe and adopted from the Blood tribe years ago, participates in the gourd dance during the Native American Veterans Association's annual Veterans Appreciation and Heritage Day Pow Wow in South Gate, Calif., Nov. 2014 Dept. of Defense photo by Marvin Lynchard

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LessonAndrew 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
LessonDiscovering Columbus: Re-reading the PastAnchor Lesson: How to engage students in a critical analysis of the textbook version of “discovery.”America’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans
ReadingThe Untold History of American Indian SlaveryHistory of American Indian SlaveryAmerica’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans
ReadingAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United StatesIn 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
VideoNative America history and raceNative America historyAmerica’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans
LessonThe Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role PlayRole play on the Cherokee-Seminole removal or Trail of Tears.America’s Other Original Sin: Native Americans