This webinar will introduce middle school social studies educators to several frameworks drawn from history and the social sciences, such as settler colonialism, physical and cultural genocide, and human rights, for teaching about the mass violence perpetrated against Indigenous peoples in the United States in the nineteenth century. Through the use of primary source documents, participants will learn about the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War and its aftermath, as a case study for teaching and learning about specific examples, as well as the broader history, of such mass violence. In addition, participants will analyze the competing narratives around how narratives U.S.-Dakota War have been remembered, memorialized, and taught over the past 150 years. Participants will discuss how the use of such newspaper accounts can be used to foster reading comprehension, document analysis, and media literacy skills in the classroom. Educational resources and sample lesson and unit plans will be provided.