ONLINE: Why You Can t Teach United States History without American Indians
Apr 21, 2021 3:00 PM
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media release: For too many students, teachers, and scholars of U.S. history, Native American history has been at best an add-on - a subject dealt with at the margins of other topics. This webinar brings together four dynamic scholars to talk together about the methods and questions that are challenging this marginalization and to show why you can t teach U.S. history without American Indians.
This webinar is part of Our Shared Future, the University of Wisconsin-Madison s ongoing effort to educate the campus and the broader community on the Ho-Chunk Nation, the eleven other First Nations within the borders of Wisconsin, and the history they share with the university.
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THE FIRST DAY of the new year brought the news of the death of Joe Neal, Nevada’s first Black state senator, at age 85. The first Monday of the new year also brought news of MGM Resorts offering $11 billion to take over the British gaming company Entain. If you heard thunder overhead, it was Neal, reacting.
Joe Neal was, hands down, the most liberal member of the Nevada Legislature for the 32 years he served in Carson City. When the state senate numbered 20, the Democrat learned his nickname was Ol’ Nineteen-to-One. He didn’t mind being the lone dissenter, but he also knew how to get things done, and he did.
Zoltán Grossman is a professor of geography and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He is the author of
Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands (University of Washington Press, 2017) and coeditor of
Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis (Oregon State University Press, 2012). His faculty website is sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan.
Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, eds.,
Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), 448 pages, $24.95, paperback.
The story of the Indigenous movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in 2016 and 2017 has been the subject of numerous articles and documentaries, many of which depict it mainly as an environmental and climate justice campaign to stop the pipeline from crossing the Mni Sose (Missouri River), just north of the Standing Rock