http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/08/06/10-things-teachers-should-never-do-when-teaching-native-kids-156252?page=0%2C1
Don’t Ask Native Students to Speak for Their Race
Don’t Host Powwows or First Thanksgivings Without Tribal Input
Don’t Ever Tell Native Students They Are Going to Drop Out
Don’t Have Students Make Indian Names or Animal Totems
Don’t Say that Columbus Discovered America
Don’t Use Words Like Primitive, Savage, Or Uncivilized
Check Reading Lists: Avoid Racist Commonly Used Books
Don’t Speak About Natives Only in the Past
Don’t Allow Mainstream Students to Bully Native Kids
Teacher Shouldn’t Assume They Know Anything About Natives
COMPILED & REVIEWED BY CLAUDIA A. FOX TREE, M.Ed (Arawak). Here are resources I recommend in courses I teach about Native Americans - like book lists, websites, video clips, music/songs, curriculum ideas, and other thoughts thrown in for explanation… Mostly, this blog is a place to present truths and perspectives about the Indigenous People of the Western Hemisphere (with particular focus on the Caribbean) not easily found in other places.
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