Full Book Title: Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years
Author(s): Bigelow, Bill (editor), Peterson, Bob, 1953- (editor)
Publisher/ place/ date: Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools, c1998.
Format: Book
Description: 189 pages: illustrations, map
Access: Go to this book’s record on Southern Maryland Regional Library Association’s catalog.
Keywords: Columbus, Christopher, Indians of North America, Stereotypes, Indigenous, Native Americans, teaching tools, resource,
Time Period:
10,000 – 1606 Before Settlers and Colonization
1607 – 1763 Colonization
Themes:
Indigenous People and Culture
Summary:
Rethink Christopher Columbus helps us listen to a wider range of voices. Through the resources assembled in this book, we hear from those whose lands and rights were taken away by those who “discovered” them. These Native American stories, too often suppressed, tell of 500 years of courageous struggle, and the lasting wisdom of the Indigenous. Understanding what happened to them in 1492 is key to understanding why people suffer the same injustices today.
A teacher, college student or community activists’ tool with 90 + essays, poems, interviews, historical vignettes, and lesson plans to reevaluate the Columbus and issues of Indigenous rights. Rethinking Columbus is packed with useful teaching tools and ideas for kindergarten through college.
