Events
Teaching Thanksgiving: a discussion on reframing representations of American Indians
Date and Time
Monday, November 12, 2018 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Description
LIB 100/201 Approved.
Where many people in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving and may perceive it as a harmless and apolitical holiday, it remains to be a complicated holiday and a painful reminder of colonial violence and indigenous erasure for American Indian communities. This panel will explore how the myths and lies of Thanksgiving are taught and reinforced in the school systems. Invited panelists will discuss how they educate about Thanksgiving and have a focused discussion on creating culturally-appropriate curriculum reflective of the contemporary experiences of American Indians. The audience will leave this lively discussion with an understanding of how the Thanksgiving myth does harm and receive resources, strategies, and best practices on how to intervene on inaccurate representations about American Indians in the school systems and our communities.
Panel will include:
Andrea Riley Mukavetz, Liberal Studies
Department, Chippewa of Thames First Nations
Steve Perry, artist,
educator, and philanthropist, LTBB and Garden River Ojibwe
Hunter
Genia, Resilience Counseling and Consultation, Gun Lake
Levi
Rickert, Native News Online, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
Jannan
Cotto, Director of Niigaandiwin Education Department for LTBB,
LTBB
Amanda Weinert, Curriculum Specialist for Niigaandiwim
Education Department for LTBB, LTBB
Contact
Office of Multicultural Affairs at (616) 331-2177 or visit www.gvsu.edu/oma.