Manifest+Destiny

Cindy Renner, Lincoln Public Schools cindyrenner@gmail.com Larry Wright, Jr. Former Tribal Chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
 * __ Manifest your Destiny with Historical Habits of Mind __**

What are Historical Habits of Mind? __ Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts __ by Sam Wineburg


 * Focal Points as Educators **
 * 1) Source – who is the author? When was it published?
 * 2) Multiple perspectives – whose voice is represented? Whose isn’t?
 * 3) Contextualization – what else is going on at the time?
 * 4) Corroboration – is there evidence to support your theory?

__ Facing East from Indian Country __ (2001) By Daniel K. Richter

“Yet if we shift our perspective to try to view the past in a way that faces east from Indian country, history takes on a very different appearance (8).”

“…to show how old documents might be read in fresh ways, to reorient our perspectives on the continent’s past…”

Kansas Historical video clip on Manifest Destiny (3:32) []

- Nebraska Advertiser April 28, 1870 “A New Empire” - Speech by John C. Calhoun (1848) on what should happen to the Mexican Cession - Political cartoon “The War President” Courier, 1848 (?) - Painting showing Native Americans on a hill looking out on a railroad in the distance “Indians Viewing the Pacific Ocean” from the Union Pacific website - James K. Polk, Inaugural address 1845 - Calloway, Colin "Our Hearts Fell to the Ground" (Pretty Shield)
 * __ Example Documents: __**