Lies my teacher told me- Ch 4

This chapter is about Native Americans and the lies that history textbooks tell us about how they came to this country and how their society and culture functioned. As a history teacher, I believe that it is important to share the correct ideas with the students. Taking out opinions in textbooks that call these people "savages" or anything similar is very important. What I find tricky is trying to find the right facts to share with students. Taking out bias is the easy bit. The problem is there is still disputable evidence about these people. An example of this is that there is debate about whether the natives walked over the Beringia Land Bridge or that boats brought them. The answer that people except is the land bridge, however, Lowen states that there is gaining proof that there may have been boats that brought over early explorers. Situations like these are where problems with how to teach can occur. What do you tell your students? What do you say after they have learned about the land bridge in previous years and classes? I think the best solution for issues such as this is to tell about both ways that it is being suggested about how they came to North America. You can create a debate about this after students do some independent research.

Big question: How do we stop authors from writing from a more European and conqueror based perspective?

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