- 18 Mar, 2021
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A Native Story For My Children
Instructions
Sharing the Native Story in a Letter to the World
Week 6 Student Competencies:
The student can:
1. Share in letter format both an informed perspective and thoughtful position upon the major lessons all American should learn from knowledge of Native American History that takes into consideration the contradictions that abound in current teachings upon this subject (LSPO #1, #3, & #4).
2. Support her position with compelling evidence from sources used in the course, both mainstream and Native (LSPO #5).
Required Reading Material:
• Web Article #1: “Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples.” https://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/our-people/apology-to-australias-indigenous-peoples In the spring of 2008, two most unusual historical events took place for Native Peoples of the Western world. In February, the Government of Australia offered a formal and public apology for the historical actions of the Australian mainstream that devastated the lives and the cultures of the Native inhabitants. This source is the text of that apology.
• Web Article #2: “Prime Minister Harper Offers Full Apology on Behalf of Canadians for the Indian Residential Schools System.” http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1100100015649 In June of 2008, the Government of Canada followed the example of Australia and offered its own formal public apology to its First Peoples. Because the Canadian Government had never fought a single war against its Native people, it could not apologize for wars and violence. However, had instituted a Native Boarding School System in the past that had similar damaging effects as the one that we have read about in the U. S. Canada apologized for its shameful Native Boarding School Policy.
• Web Article #3: “8 Things the History Books Don’t Tell Us About Native People.” https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/11/history-books-dont-tell-natives/ We end this course with the same reading that opened the course. My goal is to let you see how much you have learned about the “8 things” U. S. history books do not tell us about Native history. The writing assignment this week will allow you to explore your new knowledge on these 8 topics and any others that you wish to include.
Writing Task: Final Course Project–Sharing the Native Story in a Letter to the World. (200 points)
Format: Here is a model of simple letter to guide the formatting of this final writing project: (attached)
READ: The 2 linked articles above about national apologies to Native Peoples in Australia and Canada, as well as the 8-part overview of how the U. S. is responding to Native History here in our nation. Please include mention of the two apologies as well as references to the 8 topics left out of U. S. History textbooks in ways and places that you find appropriate in the flow of your letter.
WRITE: Perhaps the most unique aspect of Native American history is that so little is known about it right here in the place where it all happened. This final writing project offers you a chance to help change this. If you have wanted at any point in the past 5 weeks to share some of the important things that you are learning, you now have the opportunity to do so.
Learning videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUCIMqlztd0
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfaAWOXcQlPVwJK1R07cw4aUY1aZUzPJx
Write a two or more page letter (letter format = single-spaced with double spaces between paragraphs) that sums up the most important things that you have learned about American History in the past 6 weeks. Include topics, facts, stories, quotes, insights, and sources that have impacted your thinking the most since day one of the course. Do not overlook the two articles about national apologies to Native Peoples and the article “8 Things the History Books Don’t Tell Us About Native People” that are included in the readings for this assignment.
Very Important: Address the letter to someone you feel needs to know the deeper story of what really happened to the millions of people who once lived and flourished on this continent. This could be a parent, a family member, a friend, a former teacher or school administrator, or even your child or future child as yet unborn. It could be an open letter to all Americans. Tell your reader(s) about this course, about what it has meant to you, and about the most significant things that you have learned. If you feel other Americans should be learning about any of these things, give good reasons and evidence to explain why.
Address it to my children. it humanity and appreciation of life. As well as respect for cultures.
Why: grow up
Do not write a haphazard letter. Rather, organize your thoughts and insights so that they flow in a coherent, historical sense that your reader(s) can follow. Also, be sure to provide good examples and to give titles and author names for the sources where you got the examples. Your readers may at first doubt some of the things that you share. It can be hard at first to believe that such things have been hidden from us in a society based upon freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and an open society. Fortunately, in this internet age, the truth of our past can no longer be easily hidden away in old books and newspaper archives. With just a title and author, such as The Devastation of the Indies by Bartholme de las Casas, anyone can verify what really happened when Christopher Columbus and his men landed in the Caribbean Islands and began to “civilize” the Native Peoples there.
Week 6 Student Competencies:
The student can:
1. Share in letter format both an informed perspective and thoughtful position upon the major lessons all American should learn from knowledge of Native American History that takes into consideration the contradictions that abound in current teachings upon this subject (LSPO #1, #3, & #4).
2. Support her position with compelling evidence from sources used in the course, both mainstream and Native (LSPO #5).
Required Reading Material:
• Web Article #1: “Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples.” https://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/our-people/apology-to-australias-indigenous-peoples In the spring of 2008, two most unusual historical events took place for Native Peoples of the Western world. In February, the Government of Australia offered a formal and public apology for the historical actions of the Australian mainstream that devastated the lives and the cultures of the Native inhabitants. This source is the text of that apology.
• Web Article #2: “Prime Minister Harper Offers Full Apology on Behalf of Canadians for the Indian Residential Schools System.” http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100015644/1100100015649 In June of 2008, the Government of Canada followed the example of Australia and offered its own formal public apology to its First Peoples. Because the Canadian Government had never fought a single war against its Native people, it could not apologize for wars and violence. However, had instituted a Native Boarding School System in the past that had similar damaging effects as the one that we have read about in the U. S. Canada apologized for its shameful Native Boarding School Policy.
• Web Article #3: “8 Things the History Books Don’t Tell Us About Native People.” https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/11/history-books-dont-tell-natives/ We end this course with the same reading that opened the course. My goal is to let you see how much you have learned about the “8 things” U. S. history books do not tell us about Native history. The writing assignment this week will allow you to explore your new knowledge on these 8 topics and any others that you wish to include.
Writing Task: Final Course Project–Sharing the Native Story in a Letter to the World. (200 points)
Format: Here is a model of simple letter to guide the formatting of this final writing project: (attached)
READ: The 2 linked articles above about national apologies to Native Peoples in Australia and Canada, as well as the 8-part overview of how the U. S. is responding to Native History here in our nation. Please include mention of the two apologies as well as references to the 8 topics left out of U. S. History textbooks in ways and places that you find appropriate in the flow of your letter.
WRITE: Perhaps the most unique aspect of Native American history is that so little is known about it right here in the place where it all happened. This final writing project offers you a chance to help change this. If you have wanted at any point in the past 5 weeks to share some of the important things that you are learning, you now have the opportunity to do so.
Learning videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUCIMqlztd0
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfaAWOXcQlPVwJK1R07cw4aUY1aZUzPJx
Write a two or more page letter (letter format = single-spaced with double spaces between paragraphs) that sums up the most important things that you have learned about American History in the past 6 weeks. Include topics, facts, stories, quotes, insights, and sources that have impacted your thinking the most since day one of the course. Do not overlook the two articles about national apologies to Native Peoples and the article “8 Things the History Books Don’t Tell Us About Native People” that are included in the readings for this assignment.
Very Important: Address the letter to someone you feel needs to know the deeper story of what really happened to the millions of people who once lived and flourished on this continent. This could be a parent, a family member, a friend, a former teacher or school administrator, or even your child or future child as yet unborn. It could be an open letter to all Americans. Tell your reader(s) about this course, about what it has meant to you, and about the most significant things that you have learned. If you feel other Americans should be learning about any of these things, give good reasons and evidence to explain why.
Address it to my children. it humanity and appreciation of life. As well as respect for cultures.
Why: grow up
Do not write a haphazard letter. Rather, organize your thoughts and insights so that they flow in a coherent, historical sense that your reader(s) can follow. Also, be sure to provide good examples and to give titles and author names for the sources where you got the examples. Your readers may at first doubt some of the things that you share. It can be hard at first to believe that such things have been hidden from us in a society based upon freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and an open society. Fortunately, in this internet age, the truth of our past can no longer be easily hidden away in old books and newspaper archives. With just a title and author, such as The Devastation of the Indies by Bartholme de las Casas, anyone can verify what really happened when Christopher Columbus and his men landed in the Caribbean Islands and began to “civilize” the Native Peoples there.