Here at Teaching Hard History, we know that our classrooms are in a state of rapid and unforeseen change.

We know that for many, this is a time of confusion, apprehension, and uncertainty.

And yet, we also know that some parts of life seem to keep moving.

Our students are still looking to us for learning in whatever form that learning might be taking

place.

We want to continue to support you as best we can, and we'll continue to provide these episodes

so that you can have resources that might be helpful to you,

especially as you pivot to online and distance learning.

Bear with us as we work out the logistics of producing these episodes

while we and our guests are increasingly isolated,

and we will continue to provide these episodes for you and your students.

Now more than ever is the time to turn to our professional learning communities and support each

other. I and the rest of the teaching hard history team are sending out to all of you

best wishes for health and well-being.

Today, we're taking on a particularly challenging topic in our coverage of the hard

history of American slavery, indigenous enslavement of African and African-descended peoples.

This is a fraught subject, one that can seem incredibly complicated and dangerous.

Native people are already so often stereotyped as violent, and this seems to add fodder to

an inaccurate and incredibly damaging narrative.

And yet, as scholar Taya Miles reminds us in a recent interview with Teaching Tolerance magazine,

Native American history can and should be treated with the same degree of nuance with which we now treat U.S. history.

This topic is not one we enter into lightly.

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