Colonization: Classroom Activities that Make it Real

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Colonization Classroom Activities that Make it
Real
Part One Kenya Ngugi wa Thiongo Colonizing
half the classroom
Part Three Native Americans Zitkala-Sa George
Catlin John Gast

• Part Two Myanmar Australia George Orwell
  Rabbit Proof Fence

• Part Four African-Americans, Asian-Americans,
  Euro-Americans White and Nerdy? Me?

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www.daralislam.org
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The Berlin Conference 1884
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The Scramble for Africa
Blue France Pink Great Britain Yellow
Belgium Orange Spain Dark Green Italy Gold
Germany Light Green Portugal Gray Independent
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Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy
divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
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Foreign Children by Robert Lewis Stevenson
(published in 1894)

• Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow,
• Little frosty Eskimo,
• Little Turk or Japanese,
• Oh! Dont you wish that you were me?
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• You have seen the scarlet trees
• And the lions overseas
• You have eaten ostrich eggs,
• And turned the turtle off the legs.
• Such a life is very fine,
• But its not so nice as mine
• You must often as you trod,
• Have wearied not to be abroad.
• You have curious things to eat.
• I am fed on proper meat.
• You must dwell upon the foam,
• But I am safe and live at home.

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American Progress by John Gast, 1872
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George Catlin 1796-1872
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Wi-Jun-Jon, an Assinneboin Chief, Going to
Washington, and Coming Home