Native Peoples

Teachers Should Not Do These When Educating Native Youth

September 25, 2017 Sarah Sunshine Manning, www.indiancountrymedianetwork.com Educate! Education, Native Peoples, Youth

By Sarah Sunshine Manning for Indian Country Today - American Indian and Alaska Native students remain a very special and uniquely vulnerable population, often suffering from educational experiences that either fail to serve them adequately or that cause them to feel alienated, invisible, or unsupported. Teachers who serve Native youth must be cognizant of the unique needs of indigenous students, and their communities. Teachers who serve Native youth must also be willing to examine their preconceived notions of Native Americans, and then make the necessary adjustments in order to give Native youth a meaningful education that they deserve and need. To best serve Native youth, here are some more important dos and don’ts for educators: 1. DON’T ever overlook students’ indigenous identity, or attempt to see them through a “colorblind” lens Native Americans have suffered centuries of forced assimilation and marginalization. Do not maintain the erasure of Indigenous Peoples by failing to acknowledge the unique identity of your indigenous students. Attempting to see them through a colorblind lens actually causes harm, as important parts of their identity are being ignored.

Burial Mounds: Earthen Records Of Wisconsin’s Native Peoples

January 18, 2016 Mary Louise Schumacher, www.m.jsonline.com Resist! Native Peoples, Wisconsin

By Mary Louise Schumacher for Journal Sentinel - An incomparable aspect of our state's culture came under attack when a bill was proposed to make it easier for landowners to excavate and perhaps destroy surviving Indian mounds in Wisconsin, calling it a "common sense" measure. These easy-to-miss treasures, subtle contours in the landscape, are our state's most enduring form of public art. Their erasure would echo an unfortunate history of other removals, of the displacement of indigenous people by newcomers and settlers.

Protests To Defend Penobscot Nation Of Ancestral Waterway Rights

September 30, 2015 Levi Rickert, www.nativenewsonline.net Resist! Maine, Native Peoples, Water

By Levi Rickert in Native News Online - Last night, Monday, September 28, a small group of Native people and a large group of allies came together to speak out against the perpetuation of oppressive and genocidal acts against Maine’s Native peoples. They showed up outside the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus. Specifically, the group came to challenge the State of Maine’s current attempts to strip the Penobscot Nation of their ancestral rights to their waterways. The group held an alternative awards ceremony outside the event and in the lobby, giving Mills a “Dishonorable History Taker Award” for her perpetuation of colonial practices and her many other disgraceful actions. Brochures were handed out at the door so that the attendees could be educated as to the realty of how the state is treating the Penobscot Nation.

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