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Teaching About American Indians

Submitted by Steven Lapham on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 2:45pm

--Pamela McFaden Lobb
Consider four categories when selecting materials about American Indians: Native Authors (use whenever possible); art and illustration (avoid stereotypes); language (ex. avoid "squaw"); and perspective (avoid glorifying one historical point of view).

http://publications.socialstudies.org/yl/1804/180406.pdf [1]

General US History [2]
Pre-colonial, Colonial [3]
Social Studies and the Young Learner [4]
Elementary [5]
US History [6]

Source URL: http://www.socialstudies.org/teacherslibrary/teaching-about-american-indians

Links:
[1] http://publications.socialstudies.org/yl/1804/180406.pdf
[2] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/general-us-history
[3] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/pre-colonial-colonial
[4] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/journal/social-studies-and-young-learner
[5] http://www.socialstudies.org/elementary
[6] http://www.socialstudies.org/ushistory