One of the earliest residential schools for Native children planted the seeds for reading and writing as a powerful and fearful knowing, then later criminalized it
Another excellent piece of work, Professor. I always enjoy your thoroughness and insight. I greatly appreciated your personal take and the use of primary sources. I also liked the discussion with the more creative ways in which education, to this day, can be controlled. I would be interested in your take with not only banning certain books, but also requiring certain books be read as a means by which to control education. Makes you think hard about the power and responsibility that local and state school boards have in this area and whether they are aware of this history. Again, wonderful work.
Thank you so much for your kind comments, and thank you for your comprehensive read.
Interesting question about banning books-- I wrote an article on the creative way to ban a book on indigenous history, by reclassifying it as fiction! Very creative and avoided a First Amendment violation.
I had never read about Fort Christanna or the Catawba massacre in 1711. An important, albeit very sad and troubling, beginning to the treatment of native people in America with regard to education. How sad. Thanks for bringing this to light.
Another excellent piece of work, Professor. I always enjoy your thoroughness and insight. I greatly appreciated your personal take and the use of primary sources. I also liked the discussion with the more creative ways in which education, to this day, can be controlled. I would be interested in your take with not only banning certain books, but also requiring certain books be read as a means by which to control education. Makes you think hard about the power and responsibility that local and state school boards have in this area and whether they are aware of this history. Again, wonderful work.
Thank you so much for your kind comments, and thank you for your comprehensive read.
Interesting question about banning books-- I wrote an article on the creative way to ban a book on indigenous history, by reclassifying it as fiction! Very creative and avoided a First Amendment violation.
https://profvictoria.substack.com/p/reinventing-the-book-ban
I had never read about Fort Christanna or the Catawba massacre in 1711. An important, albeit very sad and troubling, beginning to the treatment of native people in America with regard to education. How sad. Thanks for bringing this to light.
Thank you so much for your comments. I always appreciate your reaction.