Your AIS 250 course has an assignment called "Rewriting History". For this assignment you are being asked to use primary sources to “rewrite” a significant event in history. You will be using identified primary sources to center your project's narrative on the experiences of Indigenous communities. This research guide is intended to help you locate primary sources and secondary background information on historical event that impacted indigenous communities in American History.
Find an event, person, place, tribe, or topic of interest such as local government, elections, court cases, protests, schools and education, justice system.
Identify a location or community
Find a narrative source, voice, document that reflects and indigenous perspective and then analyze.
Identifying Primary Sources or Topics and Subjects by looking at sources listed as reference in secondary source scholarly articles
https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.csun.edu/stable/pdf/43908371
Using timelines to identify events and locate names and incidents
https://calindianhistory.org/1863-2/
Looking at popular source articles to learn more about events:
The U.S. government’s acknowledgement of the crime of Sand Creek in the Treaty of the Little Arkansas
https://time.com/4584022/sand-creek-massacre-anniversary/
Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press
by
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