Niki Walker

As someone with a great deal of knowledge about the material, I found it a good reading experience, but found myself taking issue with semantics. There were times that the language could have been more neutral. While it does try to mention instances of contemporary practice, like the popularity of lacrosse or Navajo code talkers in WWII, it does seem at times to place Natives in the past. There are a few pages at the end of living role models, though, as well as a glossary.

The obvious place for this to be presented would be during Native American Heritage Month, but a unit looking at how people from various continents and cultures contributed to the modern world would be good as well. Assigning groups of students to explore regions of the world or cultural groups and reporting back to their class in some way would help them take ownership in the groups that they studied and taught to their classmates… (mehr)