Understanding and Teaching Native American History

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: čwÈ·ˀn neyękwaˀnawèrih: 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