Who Are These People: First Contacts Between Europeans and Native Americans, Seminar Resources, Online Professional Development Seminars for History and Literature Teachers, National Humanities Center


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Teaching American History Project

Who Are These People: First Contacts
Between Europeans and Native Americans

An Online Professional Development Seminar

10 A.M.
October 14, 2009

Leader: Kathleen DuVal

Associate Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
National Humanities Center Fellow

Syllabus

Assigned Readings
1. Norse account of meeting "Skraelingar"
  - Note
  - Text (PDF)
2. de Soto's narrative of exploration in the southeast
  - Note
  - Text (PDF)
3. Columbus's letter to Luis de Santangel (PDF)
4. Montagnais Indians on their First Encounter with the French, early 1500s (PDF)
5. Rene Laudonniere, Three Voyages, excerpt (PDF)
Seminar Presentation (PowerPoint, 1.21MB)
Seminar Evaluation (Available on day of seminar.)
Forum (Not available.)

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