This book presents readers with a fine combination of Navajo history and culture and background information about World War II in the Pacific. In historical terms, the story of the Code Talkers is a recent one as it was kept secret for many years after th
A web quest for students to examine the policies of Andrew Jackson that removed tens of thousands of Native Americans from their homes and forces them, often with great loss of life, to move west of the Mississippi.
Kiowa Apache and Lakota storyteller Dovie Thomason weaves together personal narrative and historical accounts about the Indian Boarding Schools, where thousands of Indian children were sent, often against the will of their parents, during the end of the 19th and much of the 20th century. Thomason also focuses in on one particular person—Gertrude Bonnin, who later took the name Zitkala Sa—and her experience in the boarding schools and later in life. She reveals how the Indian students, including Bonnin, were used to decimate native culture and how some Indians stood up to defend themselves and their culture. Finally, Thomason uses her personal struggle to learn more about her own history and how to share that information with her own daughter as a thread to tie all of the stories together.
Critical discussion of portrayals of American Indians in children's and young adult literature, lesson plans, curricular materials, and pop culture. Includes links to full-text free articles on the topic.
This site links to the painting by John Gast, which presents a very one-sided perspective of the definition of progress.
