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Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal
Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal

The oatmeal beats Columbus like a rented mule in this article/presentation. Although sans citation, this isn't sourced, but nonetheless in the aggregate, mostly accurate. What is truly remarkable is that there are countless elementary school classrooms in which students are sitting right now, as you read this, still learning the Columbus myth. Still.

Easy discussion prompt for worthwhile discussion from middle school on up - How does a myth survive?

#world studies#US History I#5th Grade Unit 1 - Three Worlds Meet
·theoatmeal.com·
Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal
1491 - The Atlantic
1491 - The Atlantic
It is absolutely essential that high school US history teachers read this article. Perhaps it can be edited down or excerpts from it can be read by students. Elementary teachers, who tell students quite a bit about Native Americans, should read this also. It's likely they'll never describe Native Americans before Colombus the same way again.
Indians were here far longer than previously thought, these researchers believe, and in much greater numbers. And they were so successful at imposing their will on the landscape that in 1492 Columbus set foot in a hemisphere thoroughly dominated by humankind.
<p> Half the 102 people on the <i>Mayflower </i>made it through to spring, which to me was amazing. How, I wondered, did they survive?</p><p>In his history of Plymouth Colony, Bradford provided the answer: by robbing Indian houses and graves.</p>
The Indians in Peru, Dobyns concluded, had faced plagues from the day the conquistadors showed up—in fact, before then: smallpox arrived around 1525, seven years ahead of the Spanish. Brought to Mexico apparently by a single sick Spaniard, it swept south and eliminated more than half the population of the Incan empire.
Before Columbus, Dobyns calculated, the Western Hemisphere held ninety to 112 million people. Another way of saying this is that in 1491 more people lived in the Americas than in Europe.
#native americans#5th Grade Unit 1 - Three Worlds Meet#US I Unit 1 - Colonization
·theatlantic.com·
1491 - The Atlantic
1491: Rewriting the History Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann Lecture
1491: Rewriting the History Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann Lecture
This is an hour-long lecture from one of the preeminent authorities on the Columbian Exchange. History teachers who spend hours and hours explaining the collision of Columbus and Native Americans should spend just one hour themselves learning from this award-winning author.
#5th Grade Unit 1 - Three Worlds Meet#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#video lectures and lessons#native americans
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1491: Rewriting the History Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann Lecture
Tribe meets white man for the first time - Original Footage (1/5) - YouTube
Tribe meets white man for the first time - Original Footage (1/5) - YouTube

" From Tribal Journeys The Toulambi. A series by Jean-Pierre Dutilleux - segments of a documentary showing the first contact with an isolated tribe. This might provide insight into what the first context between European and Native Americans might haave looked like "

#WS Unit 1: A Global World View#WS Unit 3: Empires & Encounters#5th Grade Unit 1 - Three Worlds Meet#US I Unit 1 - Colonization
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Tribe meets white man for the first time - Original Footage (1/5) - YouTube
The Impact of Words and Tips for Using Appropriate Terminology | Helpful Handout Educator Resource
The Impact of Words and Tips for Using Appropriate Terminology | Helpful Handout Educator Resource
How do we talk about Native Americans? or are you talking about "American Indians"? This is a valuable resource for teachers to take a quick look at before teaching in September
#3rd Grade Unit 2 - Colonial New Jersey & The American Revolution#5th Grade Unit 1 - Three Worlds Meet#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#native americans
·americanindian.si.edu·
The Impact of Words and Tips for Using Appropriate Terminology | Helpful Handout Educator Resource
El Requerimiento by Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1513) – Encyclopedia Virginia
El Requerimiento by Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1513) – Encyclopedia Virginia
Of all of the primary documents we share with students the Requerimiento shows the sheer malovency of the Spanish in the Americas - essentially it says, do this or we will kill your wives and children and it will be your fault, not ours.
Wherefore, as best we can, we ask and require
acknowledge the Church as the Ruler and Superior of the whole world, and the high priest called&nbsp;Pope
, and in his name the King and&nbsp;Queen Doña Juana&nbsp;our lords, in his place, as superiors and lords and kings of these islands and
you consent and give place that these religious fathers should declare and preach to you
#primary source#US I Unit 1 - Colonization#5th Grade Unit 1 - Three Worlds Meet#WS Unit 2: Early Globalization
·encyclopediavirginia.org·
El Requerimiento by Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1513) – Encyclopedia Virginia