Summary

Activities/Resources

Conquest

  1.  Natick

  2.  The Republic of Palmares

  3.  Report to President Washington, 1789

  4.  President Jackson's Statement, 1829

  5.  Indian Land for Sale

  6.  Shrinking Indian Lands

Identity

  1.  Bones of Contention

  2.  “I” is not for Indian

  3.  Please do not Speak Eskimo

  4.  Scalping, Fact and Fancy

  5.  Who is an Indian?

Lifeways

  1.  Choctaw Stick Ball

  2.  Cliff Palace

  3.  Maya Ruins

  4.  Maya Marketplace

  5.  Ojibwa Harvest

  6.  Zuni Gardens

Rights

  1.  Indian Citizenship Act, 1924

  2.  President Johnson's Message, 1968

  3.  Leonard Peltier, An American Political Prisoner

 

Indians in the Curriculum:
20 Handouts for Middle and High School
History and Social Studies
By Kerry Dunne

Students in the dining hall at a boarding school in Alaska, 1914. Note the sign, "Please do not speak Eskimo." Marquette University Libraries, Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Negative 0001