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    Native American Heritage Month

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    The Importance of Including Native and Indigenous Literature in AP English

    In AP English Literature classrooms, it is essential to recognize that everyone’s literature matters. The canon of literature has historically been...

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    Native American Heritage Month: An Indigenous Cut to the Bone

    In recent months I learned, along with others around the world, of the horrific stories of the mass unmarked grave sites of Indigenous, or...

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    Native American Heritage Month: The Removed

    The way authors structure their books is sometimes jaw-dropping. So impressive that by the end you hug it tight, knowing it taught you something, or...

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    Myth with a Side of Mashed Potatoes

    Like most kids ushered though elementary school in the days when the Charlie Brown holiday specials aired on television once a year and if you missed...

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    Native American Heritage Month: Identity & Storytelling

    Many lessons ran through my mind while reading There There by Tommy Orange. We could talk about the parallel plot text structure; we could talk about...

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    Native American Heritage Month: Stereotypes Still Unbroken

    Not long ago, with work piling up, to-do things needing to be done, and the fate of the free world basically depending on what I did next, I chose...

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