Teaching Hard History Mid-season Recap: Key Lessons on Indigenous Enslavement
Educators can no longer ignore our country's history of Indigenous enslavement. Our students need a fuller understanding of the pivotal history of slavery to comprehend the present and develop a vision for our nation's future. In this mid-season recap, we highlight key lessons about this consequential part of American history—along with teaching strategies and resources—through the voices of leading scholars and educators featured so far.
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Resources and ReadingsGuests
- Maureen Costello (Episode 1): Teaching Tolerance
- Eduardo Díaz (Episode 1): Smithsonian Latino Center
- Renée Gokey (Episode 1): National Museum of the American Indian
- Christina Snyder (Episodes 2 and 3): McCabe Greer Professor of History, Penn State University
- Debbie Reese (Episode 6): American Indians in Children's Literature
- Andrés Reséndez (Episodes 7 and 8): The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
References:
- Teaching Tolerance: Frameworks, Teaching Hard History
- Teaching Tolerance: Lesson, Rethinking Discovery
- Christina Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
- Christina Snyder, Great Crossings; Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
- Teaching Hard History, Summary Objective 2 (Colonial enslavement of Indigenous people)
- Andrés Reséndez, A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- Spain, Requerimiento: The Spanish Requirement of 1513
- Teaching Tolerance, Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way
- The New York Times, Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong
- Teaching Tolerance, Emancipation Proclamation
- Teaching Hard History, Summary Objective 16 (Lincoln and the Dakota 38)
- The New York Times, Lincoln and the Sioux
- Spanish forced labor, Encomienda
- Spanish forced labor, Repartimiento
- Southern United States, Convict leasing
- PBS: Slavery by Another Name, Slavery v. Peonage