“Recruited to Teach the Indians”: An African American Genealogy of Navajo Nation Boarding Schools
An examination of the colonial schooling of African American and Indigenous students in America.
An examination of the colonial schooling of African American and Indigenous students in America.
Topics include: teacher reflections, preparing for difficult conversations, the role of media coverage, daily life in residential schools, reconciliation through revitalization, and making reconciliation real.
For use with Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
Magazine-style publication features short articles about residential schools in general, as well as specific schools and highlights examples of reconciliation in action in the education system.
Related Material: Educator's Guide.
Excerpt from The Great Lone Land, originally published in 1873.
Discusses keys to Aboriginal entrepreneur success and the challenges of creating jobs and improving socio-economic conditions.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.11.
Uses archival material as a starting point to teach about the influence of the treaty relationship on Canadian identity and how historical events have shaped contemporary Canadian identity.
International Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2010.
Presenter discusses how there has been a record of an Indigenous travelers to London dating as far back as 1502, which debunks the common attitude that Indigenous peoples and urbanity and modernity are mutually exclusive.
Duration: 48:36