Revised October, 2011
Wild Rivers Teaching American History Program
September 2011 - March 2012 Schedule
All workshops will take place in the Curriculum and Instruction Center at
301 W. Washington Blvd. (Del Norte County Unified School District Office)
Date
Saturday
Sept. 17,
2011
Topic
The Civil War
AM- Causes and Consequences of the Civil
War (Gayle); Group critical reading analysis
of Foner Chapters 13 and 14
PM – The Civil War and American Indians
(Guest Professor, Dr. Ben Madley)
Required Reading
Required Reading:
 Foner, Chapters 13 and 14
Assignment for all: Critical Reading
Our Texts for Foner.
Assignment for credit: Critical book
analysis of Foner (send these directly to
Dee via email)
ASSESSMENTS
Saturday,
October 8,
201l
The Civil War and Reconstruction
AM- Reconstruction and the Road to the Civil
Rights Movement (Gayle)
Required Reading:
 Ned Blackhawk, Violence on the
Land
PM – ITEPP Book Presentation (Marlette
Grant-Jackson; Group Critical Reading
Analysis of Blackhawk; Group Work on
Doolittle Report, Congressional Hearings
(Lois).
Assignment for all: Critical Reading
Our Texts for Blackhawk
Assignment for credit: Critical book
analysis of Blackhawk.
ASSESSMENTS
Federal Indian Policy
AM-Federal Indian Policy and the TAH
Website (Gayle); Grants Peace Policy and
the Dawes Act (Lois)
Saturday,
Nov. 5,
2011
Lunch – Watch video: Indians, Outlaws, and
Angie Debo.
PM – Discussion of Video (Gayle and Lois);
Group Critical Reading Analysis of Foner,
Sim, and Trennert; Discussion of TAH
Historical Literature Day.
ASSESSMENTS
Reading:
 “The Peace Policy of Ulysses S.
Grant” by David Sim
 “John H. Stout and the Grant
Peace Policy among the Pimas”
by Robert Trennert
 Foner, Chapter 15
Assignment for all: Critical Reading
Our Texts for Sim, Foner, and Trennert
Assignment for credit: Critical book
analysis of Sim and Trennert. (send
these directly to Dee via email)
Friday,
Dec. 2,
2011, 79pm
Indian Boarding Schools
Chilocco Indian School (Guest Professor
Tsiana Lomawaima);
Saturday,
Dec. 3
AM – Group Deconstruction of Lomawaima
Presentation; Critical Reading Analysis of
Lomawaima and Calloway; Understanding
Federal Boarding School Policy (Lois)
PM – Native American Literature: An
Overview (Guest Professor Cutcha Balvy)
ASSESSMENTS
Required Reading:
 They Called it Prarie Light: The
Story of Chilocco Indian School by
Tsiania Lomawaima
 Calloway, Chapter 6
Assignment for all: Critical Reading
Our Texts for Calloway and
Lomawaima.
Assignment for credit: Critical book
analysis of Lomawaima.
Third “You Decide” Essay Draft Due
on December 2nd .
Fourth “You Decide” Essay Draft
Due on January 6, 2012 (send these
directly to Dee via email)
Saturday
February
4, 2012
WR TAH Historical Literature Day
Friday,
March 2,
2012
Indians in the Era of Manifest Destiny
AM – Manifest Destiny and its effects on the
Indians of the Great Plains (Gayle); Indian
Wars (Lois)
PM – Viewing of In the Light of Reverence.
Discussion of video (Gayle and Lois)
Saturday,
March 3,
2012
AM – The Northwest Indian Cemetery
Protection Association’s Struggle to stop
Grave Desecration – Guest professor, Tony
Platt.
PM – Content-related preview of the Summer
Trip.
ASSESSMENTS
Saturday,
April 28,
2012
The Black Hills and “Red Power”
AM - The Treaty of Fort Laramie and the
Struggle for the Black Hills (Gayle);
Conflicting Claims over the Black Hills (Lois);
Development of Indian Land Bases (Lois)
NO Required Reading or Assignment
The two final drafts of the “You
Decide” Essays Due on March 3,
2012. (send these directly to Dee via
email)
NO Required Reading or Assignment
PM – “Red Power” and lesson plan (Gayle)