This course engages Teacher Candidates in contemporary indigenous history, emphasizing local Tribes through the "Since Time Immemorial" curriculum. Teacher Candidates will learn how to teach about indigenous cultures, how to work with indigenous learners, families, and communities, and learn how to incorporate indigenous knowledge into their work. This class may include students from multiple sections.
Must be seeking a Bachelor of Applied Science in Teacher Education degree to enroll. If interested, visit pencol.edu/bas
Prerequisites
Teacher Education BAS Program Admittance
Course Outcomes
- Describe how physical geography affects the distribution, culture, and economic life of local Tribes and what the implications are for teaching and learning.
- Explain the complexities of the legal status of Tribes who "negotiated" or who did not "negotiate" settlement for compensation for the loss of their sovereign homelands and what the implications are for teaching and learning.
- Describe how political, economic, and cultural forces are consequential to the treaties that led to the movement of Tribes from long-established homelands to reservations and explain what the implications are for teaching and learning.
- Describe the ways in which Tribes respond to the threats and outside pressure to extinguish their cultures and independence and what the implications are for teaching and learning.
- Demonstrate understanding of what Tribes do to meet the challenges of reservation life; and as sovereign nations, what local Tribes do to meet the economic and cultural needs of their Tribal communities and what the implications are for teaching and learning.