{"id":19128,"date":"2021-04-02T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/?p=19128"},"modified":"2021-04-15T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T20:02:48","slug":"native-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/native-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Native American history, historically, has been poorly taught in our schools, if at all.<\/p>\n

Anna Diamond, in an article in Smithsonian Magazine, Inside a New Effort to Change What Schools Teach About Native American History<\/a>, writes: \u201cMost students across the United States don\u2019t get comprehensive, thoughtful, or even accurate education in Native American history and culture. A 2015 study by researchers at Pennsylvania State University found that 87 percent of content taught about Native Americans includes only pre-1900 context. And 27 states did not name an individual Native American in their history standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Native American history is a rich, as well as a painful and tragic. story – and one we all need to know. It’s more than time for a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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James W. Loewen\u2019s Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong <\/em>(New Press, 2018) is a best-selling plea for truth in history education, including compelling chapters on the traditional teaching of Native American history. \u201cHistorically, American Indians have been the most lied-about subset of our population,\u201d writes Loewen.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Edited by Doris Searle and Beverly Slapin, A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children<\/em> (AltaMira Press, 2006) is a compilation of essays and poems about negative or false portrayals of Native Americans in literature along with hundreds of critical reviews of books for kids and teens. A valuable resource.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The American Indians in Children\u2019s Literature<\/a> blog provides critical reviews of books for children and young adults featuring indigenous peoples and cultures.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

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