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Introduction
Beginnings
Elementary School Issues
Rethinking Thanksgiving
The Trial (The People vs Columbus, et al.)
The Taínos
Secondary School Issues
Contemporary Struggles
Environmental Issues
Final Words
Resources
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Introduction
- Why Rethink Columbus?
by the editors — 10
- We Have No Reason to Celebrate
by Suzan Shown Harjo — 12
- America to Indians: Stay in the 19th Century!
by Jan Elliott — 14
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Beginnings
- Indians Claim Italy — 16
by "Right of Discovery" from The New York Times
- Discovering Columbus: Re-reading the Past — 17
by Bill Bigelow
- Sugar & Slavery — 22
by Philip Martin
- African-American Resistance — 24
by Bill Fletcher
- My Country, 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying — 28
by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Historic Tribal Locations Map — 30
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Elementary School Issues
- What Not To Teach — 32
by June Sark Heinrich
- A Friend of the Indians — 34
by Joseph Bruchac
- Columbus & Native Issues in the Elementary Classroom —
35
by Bob Peterson
- 1492 (song) — 41
by Nancy Schimmel
- The Untold Story — 42
by Tina Thomas
- The Sacred Buffalo Rosalie Little Thunder — 44
- Once Upon a Genocide: Columbus in Children's Literature —
47
by Bill Bigelow
- George Washington: An American Hero? — 56
by the CIBC
- Scalping: Fact & Fantasy — 58
by Philip Martin
- Indian Lands for Sale Poster — 60
- A Barbie-Doll Pocahontas — 61
by Cornel Pewewardy
- Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Recent Children's Books on the
Columbus-Taíno Encounter — 62
by Bill Bigelow
- Teaching Ideas — 69
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Rethinking Thanksgiving
- The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee by N. Scott Momaday —
72
- Giving Thanks: The Story of Indian Summer by Joseph Bruchac
— 73
- Thanking the Birds by Joseph Bruchac — 74
- Alphabet of the Americas — 75
- Why I'm Not Thankful for Thanksgiving by Michael Dorris
— 76
- Plagues & Pilgrims: The Truth about the First Thanksgiving
by James W. Loewen — 79
- Teaching Ideas & Suggested Activities — 83
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The Trial (The People vs. Columbus, et al.)
- For the Sake of Gold — 86
by Hans Koning
- A Class Role Play — 87
by Bill Bigelow
- The Trial in the Elementary Classroom — 94
by Bob Peterson
- Columbus's Diary: Reading Between the Lines — 95
by Bill Bigelow
- The First Few Days: The Journal of Christopher Columbus
— 96
- Timeline: Spain, Columbus, and Taínos — 99
- "Open Your Hearts" — 103
adapt. from Bartolomé de las Casas
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The Taínos
- The Taínos: "Men of the Good" — 106
by José Barreiro
- Imagining the Taínos — 108
by Bill Bigelow
- The Gold People — 110
by Anna Hereford
- Taíno Resistance: Enrique's Uprising — 111
by Alvin Josephy, Jr.
- Rethinking Terms — 112
by Philip Tajitsu Nash and Emilienne Ireland
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Secondary School Issues
- Ceremony — 114
by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Talking Back to Columbus: Teaching for Justice and Hope
— 115
by Bill Bigelow
- Columbus Day — 123
by Jimmie Durham
- Broken Spears Lie in the Roads — 124
by unknown Aztec Poet
- Black Indians & Resistance — 125
by William Loren Katz
- Indian Singing in 20th Century America — 128
by Gail Tremblay
- Cowboys and Indians: On the Playground — 129
by Ray Gonzalez
- Human Beings Are Not Mascots — 131
by Barbara Munson
- Looney Tunes and Peter Pan: Unlearning Racist Stereotypes
— 133
by Linda Christensen
- Bones of Contention — 134
by Tony Hillerman
- Three Thousand Dollar Death Song — 135
by Wendy Rose
- Canada Apologizes to its Native People — 136
from the Associated Press
- What's in an Apology? — 137
by Bob Peterson
- Elizabeth Peratrovich Day — 138
- Teaching Ideas — 139
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Contemporary Struggles
- Current Struggles around the Hemisphere — 142
- Treaty Rights: An Overview — 144
by Philip Martin
- A Modern Hero: Rigoberta Menchú — 146
by Deborah Menkart
- Resistance at Oka — 148
by Peter Blue Cloud
- The Unity of Native Peoples — 150
by Billy Redwing Tayac
- Leonard Peltier: An American Political Prisoner — 151
by Philip Martin
- Loo-Wit — 152
by Wendy Rose
- The Theft of the Black Hills — 153
by Philip Martin
- Shrinking Indian Lands Map Series — 155
- The Earth is a Satellite of the Moon — 156
by Leonel Rugama
- Teaching Ideas — 157
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Environmental Issues
- To the Women of the World: Our Future, Our Responsibility
— 160
by Winona LaDuke
- People vs. Nature in 15th-century Europe — 162
by Kirkpatrick Sale
- Radioactive Mining: Good Economics or Genocide? — 163
by Ward Churchill
- All Pigs on Deck: The Columbus Myth & the Environment —
165
by Bill Bigelow
- The Land of the Spotted Eagle — 166
by Luther Standing Bear
- The Earth and the American Dream: Selected Quotes from the video
— 167
- The Earth and the American Dream: Questions — 169
- Red Ribbons for Emma — 170
by Deb Preusch, et al.
- Teaching Ideas — 172
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Final Words
- Remember — 174
by Joy Harjo
- For Some, a Time of Mourning — 175
by Wendy Rose
- The Blue Tiger — 177
by Eduardo Galeano
- Colibrí — 179
by Martin Espada
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Resources
- Books for young readers and adults, curriculum materials, videos,
websites, organizations, and more! — 182
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