American Indians in North Carolina, 
Past and Present

Workshop Contents:

  • Workshop Introduction
  • Participant Background 
  • Bulletin Board 
  • Evaluating and Using Online Resources in the Classroom 
  • Workshop Handouts
  • Session 1: Introduction 
    • Ten Thousand Years in Four Weeks? 
    • Test Yourself 
    • Maps 
    • Population 
    • Tribal Information
  • Session 2: Education 
    • “Respect and Encourage the Individual”: Learning among the Lumbee 
    • Haliwa-Saponi Tribal School 
    • Profile of the Past: W. L. Moore 
    • Profiles of the Present: Kara Stewart and Dorothy Crowe 
  • Session 3: Government and Politics 
    • The Lumbee Indians: Searching for Justice, Searching for Identity 
    • The Meherrin: A Fight for Recognition 
    • Profile of the Past: Nancy Ward: War Woman of the Cherokee 
    • Profile of the Present: Brenda J. Moore and the WSDA 
  • Session 4: Language 
    • Indigenous Languages in North Carolina 
    • Occaneechi Language Resource Development Program 
    • Profile of the Past: Sequoyah 
    • Profile of the Present: James “Bo” Taylor 
  • Session 5: The Arts
    • Rock Art in Western North Carolina 
    • Hands on History 
    • Profile of the Past: Nancy George Bradley 
    • Profile of the Present: Senora Lynch 
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