Posted on 07/29/2018 10:40:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
California 4th-graders have studied Golden State geography, people and history. Now, historians and Native American teachers are pushing to broaden that curriculum to include more on the culture and history of the state’s original inhabitants.
“For so many years, the story of California Indians has never really been part of classrooms,” said Rose Borunda, an education professor at Sacramento State University and a coordinator of the California Indian History Curriculum Coalition. “Our story has never been present. It’s often sidestepped because it’s inconvenient. But it’s the truth, and students should learn it.”
Borunda, who is Native American, and her colleagues are working to educate teachers statewide on the history of California’s indigenous people, who were among the most populous and diverse Native Americans in North America. Their curriculum would complement the state’s History-Social Science framework, which was updated two years ago.
The changes are part of a broader effort to expand Native California curriculum in K-12 schools. In October, Gov. Brown signed AB 738...to create a Native American studies class curriculum for high schools that will satisfy the elective course requirements for admission to CU and CSU. Earlier this year, Brown signed AB 2016, which creates an elective high school ethnic studies course that could also include Native American history and culture. The State Board of Education is required to adopt the ethnic studies curriculum by March 2020.
While the [California] missions marked the beginning of colonization in California, they were also the beginning of the end for most tribes, as thousands were enslaved by missionaries, killed by settlers over the next few decades or died of diseases introduced by Europeans. Within 70 years of the Spanish arrival, the native population dropped to fewer than 70,000, according to the state’s Native American Heritage Commission.
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Only a foreigner or a local idiot would say that.
North of Los Angeles, the state is brimful of placenames that most smartass foreigners can't pronounce.
Mexican
While the [California] missions marked the beginning of colonization in California, they were also the beginning of the end for most tribes.
Sounds like they had problems with them too.
So are they going to teach it warts and all? Or is this just more bash whitey crap?
I certainly don't.
The actual picture of mexico between the 16th and 18th centuries is quite different from what the ignorant moron enemies domestic paint.
Those dozens of tribes and chiefs dealing with the Spaniards would put our democratics' to shame, for lying and duplicity...
Same animals lying through their teeth as they invade our country today...
Understanding their language, such as it is, reveals a much clearer picture for me.
Guilty as charged.
“Foreigner” — only been here 45 years. I spent 20 elsewhere.
“Local Idiot” — yep, that’s me.
Thanks for the kinds words.
I admit I have a limited range of reference. Upstate New York for 14 years from birth. I can testify to the in-depth study of the Iroquois Confederacy throughout K-12. I can also testify to the HUGE number of Indian place names in NYS. We put our three kids through the California public education system and I worked extensively with them on their California history curriculum and history projects.
California? Hardly any by comparison. Lots of Spanish-derived place names, but, given your level of rudeness, I expect you cannot differentiate Spanish from Indian place names.
As an opinion, that is simply ignorance.
As fact, what are your reputable sources and references?
Please note that I said reputable, not delusional, militant undocumented (illegal) undergraduate academics...
They were fat.
Living off the land.
Had damn good weather too. I doubt any of them had a good coat or heavy shoes. They moved up and down the elevations as the seasons changed. At bottom the Central Valley RARELY dropped below 30deg at night. And summers in the mountains rarely exceed 90deg. Water, fish, game and native plants and trees abundant in every direction. Tule elk to 500lbs, to 3 species of deer from 70lbs to 200lbs. Slabs of Salmon exceeding 40lbs. And a single Valley Oak dropping a ton of acorns. Berries. Greens. Mushrooms.
They had to be aware they had found paradise on earth. Imagine California circa 1500. If you try, you can. There are still vast swaths of native habitat. There are even a few wild rivers left.
So much abundance I can’t imagine them being concerned about a few families moving in from elsewhere. Probably just seen as new blood to breed with.
I don’t know if they were as martial as the Plains and Northeast Indians. We didn’t learn any of that history.
I do know the early Spanish missionaries found them essentially docile.
As a native of SoCal I have no problem with teaching accurate history of everybody.
I have read that the Indians of the Lost Angeles Basin were relatively prosperous, with several rivers coming from the mountains, agriculture, fishing, etc. Mild climate.
I think many wound up among the farm workers. Seasonal or stationary.
i guess they still haven’t learned the first lesson of history: the winners write the history books ...
Now, here is a perfect example of bureaucratric P.C. parasites run wild.
It is a State commission supported entirely by California taxpayers.
It is a political private playground.
A California Citizen/taxpayer need not apply for access to their publications, printed or in electronic format.
Once an electronic copy of a document exists, the cost for access to a copy of it on line is almost zero.
This "Commission" (read closed group) has "published a series of reports, in regular bookform and in electronic format.
Their web site makes it virtually impossible to order these reports in ereader format
Do you think that's accidental?
Absolutely right!
They were setup as sovereign nations. That's why they can build casinos anywhere they want, and we can't.
Why should they vote and have say in our nation, but we can't in theirs?
You need to complete your education.
Ever try to access real history?
How many P.C. blue ribbons have you earned?
Did the Indians want those things? I think they are the only group that can legitimately complain.
You must be right.
I have only lived in California 72 years, and am fluent in Spanish, both old and modern Castilian and "American," speaking hemisphere-wise.
I have also worked as a translator, so naturally I can't distinguish California natives' language from Spanish.
But please don't tell anyone.
Separately, Assemblyman Phil Ting successfully advocated for a $5 million grant in the 2017-18 state budget for the California Historical Society and McTygue’s group to create free online materials, such as original documents and photos, for K-12 teachers to implement the new history-social science framework, including the history and culture of Native Californians. “This $5 million investment by the state will provide students and their teachers with the resources to learn about — and from — the people, places and events that have shaped California for thousands of years,” Ting said.
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS! To pull together some information and put it online? My God! This sounds like a $250,000 project at best and something that could be staffed with a couple of minimum wage summer interns studying Anthropology. This really smells like some patronage payoffs to family members - kind of like the Awan family getting enriched by Congress.
Well, on your plus side, at least you admit it.
I don’t know who you are, and I don’t care, and there’s nothing p.c. about me. My husband and in-laws are Indians. I have some Indian blood, myself. And as a Oklahoma transplant, I know full well how Indians here were treated. My father-in-law, God rest his soul, was one of the few full-blooded Loyal Shawnee left, when he died. He had a sixth grade education, and nearly starved as a young man, before and during the depression, desperate for work that wasn’t to be had. When the CCC came along, he jumped at the chance, and worked for a dollar a day, and glad to get it. Then joined the army, because there still was no work, especially for an Indian. Then fought WW2 til he was wounded, six months before VE Day. That man never worked less than 2 jobs at a time, after the war, til he lost a leg to diabetes in his early 70’s. Plus he was a lay preacher. When he was a kid, he saw a white man on a horse drag an Indian through the streets til he died. Nobody did anything about it. After all, he was just an Indian. A man near his mother’s home got in an argument with a brother, who shot him dead. The Marshall heard about it, went out and took a look, but, since it was just an Indian, he didn’t waste any more time on it -— just rode off. Until Wilma Mankiller got rid of the blood quantum for the Cherokee (which no REAL Indian thought was such a good idea, but she was trying to help her tribe get more help), people in Oklahoma, were mostly ashamed if they had a little Indian blood in them, mostly referred to REAL natives, as “those dirty Indians” or “those drunken Indians”. After the blood quantum was done away with, you wouldn’t believe how many of those white people, suddenly became Cherokee. On paper, only. I know a guy who works for the Cherokee nation. Not too long ago, someone came into his office with a certificate of Cherokee blood, of 234/8,000. Yep. 8,000th. They have no honor. But they want to get free health care, hospitalization, medication, help with college, and don’t you dare tell them they’re not an Indian. REAL Indians call them paper Indians or thinbloods. So now, it’s cool to be an Indian in Oklahoma. If you’re a Cherokee. And because these white carpetbaggers can now vote in tribal elections, the blood quantum will NEVER go back to the 25% blood every other tribe allows. That’s just a tiny bit of what I know about Indians. So don’t tell me to get educated about Indians. I know more about Indians than you’ll probably ever know, because you’re a bigot. And bigot is just another name for stupid.
Ping..
All a person has to do is look at the history of Mexico, a nation that wasn’t even known as Mexico until the Spanish legions pulled up stakes and left around 1820-25.
The Mexican nationals love to rip us for using English. Yep, we’re supposed to be Europeans who stole our land from them. And yet they speak Spanish, also a European language.
Over 60% of Mexicos citizens have Spanish blood in them.
They are every bit as much Europeans as we are.
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