<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">An important recent essay that is likely to be of interest to list members:<div><br></div><div><br><div><div class="headline_area" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.2em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><h1 class="entry-title" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 2.4em; line-height: 1.333em; ">Indigenous History in the Classroom: Four Principles, Four Questions</h1><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-style: italic; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8em; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">by <span class="author vcard" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; "><a href="http://activehistory.ca/author/guest/" class="url fn" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); ">GUEST</a></span> on <abbr class="published" title="2013-11-18" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; cursor: help; font-style: normal; ">NOVEMBER 18, 2013</abbr></div></div><div class="format_text entry-content" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.571em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; "><em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">By Carolyn</em> <em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Podruchny </em><em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "></em></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">Is teaching Indigenous history any different than teaching other histories? This question was posed to organizers of a day-long Teaching History Symposium on history, heritage, and education for Toronto area public school teachers, heritage experts, graduate students, and faculty members in the History Department at York University.<a href="http://activehistory.ca/2013/11/indigenous-history-in-the-classroom-four-principles-four-questions/#1" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(35, 97, 161); ">[1]</a> Rather than providing an answer, I suggest more questions to consider, and principles to guide decisions about teaching Indigenous history. I suspect that methods employed in teaching Indigenous histories can serve as a model for teaching about the histories of all peoples in the past….</p></div><div><b><font size="5">For the full article, go to: <a href="http://activehistory.ca/2013/11/indigenous-history-in-the-classroom-four-principles-four-questions/">http://activehistory.ca/2013/11/indigenous-history-in-the-classroom-four-principles-four-questions/</a></font></b></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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