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North Carolina History Digital Textbook Project

Teaching about North Carolina American Indians

From the North Carolina Humanities Council

Contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Curriculum Enrichment Project Background
  1. 1 Teaching about American Indians in North Carolina
    1. 1.1American Indian vs. Native American: A note on terminology
    2. 1.2Critical reasons for teaching North Carolina's American Indian history
    3. 1.3Incorporating North Carolina's American Indian history into the K-12 curriculum
    4. 1.4Avoiding bias
    5. 1.5Understanding the needs of American Indian students
  2. 2 North Carolina's American Indian history: A webliography
    1. 2.1Statistics and general information
    2. 2.2Historical overviews and cultural traditions
    3. 2.3Archaeology and Pre-European contact history
    4. 2.4Early American Indian history: Colonization to 1800
    5. 2.5The nineteenth century
    6. 2.6The twentieth century and beyond
    7. 2.7Primary Sources
    8. 2.8Dramatic performance and field trips
    9. 2.9Teaching resources
  3. 3 Lesson plans and resources: The Lumbee
    1. 3.1Lumbee English
    2. 3.2Lumbee learning
    3. 3.3Naval stores
    4. 3.4The Lumbee: Who are they?
    5. 3.5What does it mean?
    6. 3.6Where do the Lumbee live?
    7. 3.7Federal recognition for Lumbee Indians
  4. 4 Lesson plans and resources: The Cherokee
    1. 4.1Cherokee clans
    2. 4.2Why the opossum's tail is bare
    3. 4.3Cherokee lore and traditions
    4. 4.4Cherokee language recordings
    5. 4.5Cherokee language
    6. 4.6Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian (EBCI) Studies Resource List
  5. 5 General lesson plans
    1. 5.1Legends: Dramatic story telling
    2. 5.2North Carolina powwow
    3. 5.3Role plays from research on Native Americans
  1. Appendix A. A Dialect Dictionary of Lumbee English
  2. Appendix B. The Official Lumbee Vocabulary Test or How to Tell a Lum from a Foreigner
  3. Bibliography