Understanding and Teaching Native American History

Kristofer Ray is an Honorary Fellow at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. His areas of expertise include early modern American Indian experience broadly, Native-European interaction in trans-Appalachia specifically, and the European construction of Indigenous slave law. In addition to several book chapters, edited volumes, and journal articles, he is the author of Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825 and the forthcoming Cherokees, Europeans, and Empire in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670-1774. Brady DeSanti (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) is the director of Native American studies and an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His research focuses on Native American history and religious traditions.

Introduction Part One: Reflections on Teaching Native American History Chapter One: Learning to Teach Indian History: A Memoir By Theda Perdue Chapter Two: Teaching American Indian History Using the Medicine Way By Donald Fixico Chapter Three: Transnational History and Deep Time: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from Australia By Ann McGrath Chapter Four: Being There: Experiential Learning by Living Native American History By Bernard Perley Chapter Five: c?wE??n neye?kwa?nawe?rih: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from a Native Student By Taylor Hummel Part Two: Reflections on Invasions, Epidemics, War and Genocide Chapter Six: Before Columbus: Native American History, Archeology, and Resources By Maureen Meyers Chapter Seven: Teaching and Understanding Genocide in Native America By Gray Whaley Chapter Eight: The "Virgin" Soil Thesis Cover-Up: Teaching Indigenous Demographic Collapse By Tai S. Edwards Chapter Nine: Teaching Indian Wars By Mark van de Logt Part Three: Essential Topics in Native American History Chapter Ten: Teaching Indian Slavery: From First Slaves to Early Abolitionists in Four Myths By Denise I. Bossy Chapter Eleven: Teaching the American Revolution from Indian Country By Charles W. Prior Chapter Twelve: Teaching the Broad and Relevant History of American Indian Removal By John Bowes Chapter Thirteen: Teaching and Understanding the History of Allotment By Rose Stremlau Chapter Fourteen: Teaching Federal Indian Law through Literature By N. Bruce Duthu Chapter Fifteen: Nation-to-Nation: Understanding Treaties and Sovereignty By Margaret Huettl Chapter Sixteen: Teaching Indigenous Environmental History By Paul Kelton and James Rice Part Four: Reflections on Identity and Cultural Appropriation Chapter Seventeen: An Appropriate Past: Seminole Indians, Osceola, and Florida State University By Andrew K. Frank Chapter Eighteen: Looking Past the Racial Classification System: Teaching Southeastern Native Survival Using the Peoplehood Model By Marvin Richardson Chapter Nineteen: Teaching Native American Religions and Philosophies in the Classroom By Brady DeSanti Chapter Twenty: Sustenance as Culture and Tradition: Teaching About Indigenous Foodways By Devon A. Mihesuah Chapter Twenty-One: Native American Art 101 By Nancy Marie Mithlo

"This impressive volume from noted experts includes a variety of essays all suited to inform the teaching of Native and American histories. From broad concepts to helpful, concrete suggestions, these essays make it easier for everyone to engage with Indigenous history."--Malinda Maynor Lowery, Emory University "[An] excellent collection. . . . Quite a feast of knowledge awaits readers."--CHOICE Reviews "Comprised of 21 erudite and informative contributions by experts in the Native American History that are deftly organized into three major sections. . . . A seminal, unique, and unreservedly recommended core addition to personal, professional, college and university library Native American Studies collections and supplemental and developmental studies curriculum studies lists."--Midwest Book Review