Topics in Indigenous History from Precontact to the Present Day

Please join the CHGS and Professors Brady DiSanti (University of Nebraska) and Kristofer Ray (Holy Cross), the co-editors of Understanding and Teaching Native American History, for a full-day workshop at Salem State University. Learn about topics in Native American history from pre-contact to the present day including the Colombian Exchange, indigenous religious traditions, citizenship and the state of tribal nations today. Explore strategies and resources that can be used to teach these topics effectively in the classroom.

Brady DeSanti (Citizen, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Nation) is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Native American Studies and the Director of the Native American Studies program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is co-editor with Kristofer Ray of Understanding and Teaching Native American History (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022). 

Kristofer Ray is a Visiting Associate Professor of Indigenous American History at the College of the Holy Cross.  He is the author of Cherokee Power: Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670-1774 (2023) and Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier (2007). 

School districts wishing to send teams of teachers as well as individual teachers wishing to reserve a spot for the workshop should contact us at chgs@salemstate.edu.