Preface:
This seminar will be taught at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and is inspired by the new exhibition Native American Voices: The People – Here and Now which will open at Penn Museum on March 1, 2014. The exhibition introduces contemporary Native American leaders and concerns in Indian country today, against the backdrop of Penn Museum’s remarkable Native American collections. The course will ask the following questions: What is the status of Native Americans in our country today? What issues are of concern in Indian country now? And, who are some of the current leaders? Topics to be explored include Native American sovereignty, language preservation, the importance of sacred places, the significance of ongoing commemorations and celebrations, and economic and health initiatives. Teachers will have the opportunity to explore a variety of tribes and topics and to become familiar with Native American material culture through hands on experience.
Teachers can create their own curriculum in relation to, or independent of, the five year exhibition. Teachers of social studies and history will find this topic especially useful.
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2014
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Terry Anne Wildman |
Keywords: NAGPRA, Native American Voices Exhibit, Lenni-Lenape People, History |
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Erin Bloom |
Keywords: Native American issues, landscape, sacred places, anthropology |
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Matthew Byrne |
Keywords: Native American, Foreign Language, Spanish pueblo, New Mexico, pottery, Pueblo revolt, Art, ceramics |
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Sydney Hunt Coffin |
Keywords: Native American, History, Identity, voice, poetry |
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Richard P. Holmes |
Keywords: Native American, World War II, Navajo, Code Breakers |
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Cynthia Cozette Lee |
Keywords: Native American music, History, traditional, percussion instruments, crossover, contemporary, biographies |
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Keysiah M. Middleton |
Keywords: Zachary Taylor, Micanopy, Micconuppe, Mikasuki, Native American History, Luis Fatio Pacheco, freedom fighters, Geechee, Gullah, History, John Caesar, John Horse, La Florida, Seminole maroons, Seminoles, St. Augustine, St. John Slave Revolt, Thomas Sidney Jesup, Tuskegee, Wild Cat, Seige of Camp Izard, Second Battle of Withlacoochee, Osceola, Negro Fort Massacre, runaway slaves, First Battle of Withlacoochee, Francis L. Dade, Andrew Jackson, American History, Alachua chief, African American History, Abraham, Asi Yahola, Battle at Hatcheelustee Creek, Edmund P. Gaines, Duncan Clinch, Destruction of St. John’s Sugar Plantations, Dade’s Massacre, Battle at Jupiter Inlet, Colonial Florida, Coacoochee, Battle of Lockahatchee, Battle of Okeechobee, Battle of Wahoo Swamp, Ben Bruner, Black Seminoles |
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Peter Morse |
Keywords: Lenape, diaspora, Delaware |
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Tiffany Moyer |
Keywords: mixed numbers, Native American, literacy, fractions, Geography, History, Trail of Tears, Cherokee |
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Kathleen Radebaugh |
Keywords: social media, secondary sources, Thanksgiving, writing, Native Americans, primary sources, activism, Christopher Columbus |
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Cara Wallin |
Keywords: four corners, History, Pueblo Indians, Ancestral Pueblo, Culture, cliff dwellings |
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Pat Mitchell-Keita-Doe |
Keywords: Native American, Native American History, Native American issues, Historical Context, History, Native Americans, Pennsylvania History, Political Activism, Political thought, political unrest, American History |
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