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Understanding and Teaching Native American History (The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History) (Hardcover)

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By Kristofer Ray (Editor), Brady DeSanti (Editor)
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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.

About the Author


Kristofer Ray is an Honorary Fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. His areas of expertise include early modern American Indian experience broadly, Native-European interaction in trans-Appalachia specifically, and the European construction of Indigenous slave law. In addition to several book chapters, edited volumes, and journal articles, he is the author of Middle Tennessee, 1775–1825 and the forthcoming Cherokees, Europeans, and Empire in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670–1774. Brady DeSanti (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) is the director of Native American studies and an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His research focuses on Native American history and religious traditions.

Praise For…


“This impressive volume from noted experts includes a variety of essays all suited to inform the teaching of Native and American histories. From broad concepts to helpful, concrete suggestions, these essays make it easier for everyone to engage with Indigenous history.”—Malinda Maynor Lowery, Emory University

“Comprised of 21 erudite and informative contributions by experts in the Native American History that are deftly organized into three major sections. . . . A seminal, unique, and unreservedly recommended core addition to personal, professional, college and university library Native American Studies collections and supplemental and developmental studies curriculum studies lists.”—Midwest Book Review

“[An] excellent collection. . . . Quite a feast of knowledge awaits readers.”—CHOICE Reviews

Product Details
ISBN: 9780299338503
ISBN-10: 0299338509
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date: August 30th, 2022
Pages: 272
Language: English
Series: The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History