Pathways into Indigenous Social Studies
an interactive and participatory experience for educators
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Akomawt Educational Initiative educators and co-founders Chris Newell and endawnis Spears will lead an interactive workshop centering the histories of settler colonialism and continued Indigenous presence in the northeast and beyond.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
9am-2pm
Eli Whitney Museum
915 Whitney Ave.
Hamden, Conn.
Open to Seedlings alumni and friends of alumni (all must register to attend).
The session’s first portion, led by Chris Newell, will focus on ways to teach Indigenous histories accurately including a discussion of his seminal children’s book If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving. In the second portion, Chris and endawnis Spears will facilitate the US version of the KAIROS Blanket Exercise. The KAIROS Blanket Exercise program is a unique, interactive, and participatory history lesson developed in collaboration with Indigenous Elders, knowledge keepers, and educators. The Blanket Exercise covers more than 500 years in a 90-minute experiential workshop that aims to foster an understanding of our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
**Lunch will be provided**
Register by August 31st and receive a copy of
If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving
Space is limited to 75 attendees.
About Akomawt Educational Initiative
Founded by Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy) and endawnis Spears (Diné/ Ojibwe/Chickasaw/ Choctaw), Akomawt is dedicated to furthering knowledge of Native America through innovative learning approaches designed to impact how we teach history and contemporary social issues. Collaborating with educators in schools, institutions of higher learning, and public history sites, Akomwat works to generate new learning paths that create awareness and informed dialogue about American Indian history, contemporary Native lifeways, and Indigenous futures.