Native Knowledge 360˚ - Smithsonian Institution
Leech Lake, Minnesota. Photograph by Kat Communications, NMAI. NMAI ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING 2 TIME, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE The 21st–century classroom should include experiences that provide for the study of American Indian history and its legacy. Indigenous people of the Americas shaped life in the Western Hemisphere for millennia. After …
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