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Lands of our Ancestors #3
Lands of our Ancestors Book Three
Kilik, Tuhuy and the rest of the members of this Chumash Indian family step into the Gold Rush Era and the early years of California statehood before returning to their ancient home in the lands of their ancestors.
198 pages, Paperback
Published April 9, 2019
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May 13, 2021Lands of Our Ancestors Book Three is the last book of the Series of Gary Robinson. Book One and Book Two focus on the lives of a Chumash boy and his family that go through important historical events in California such as the Mission Period and the Rancho Period.
Gary Robinson’s series of Lands of Our Ancestors are such a critical and important tool that all California schools should be implementing in their history curriculum. It truly does an amazing job of telling the story of California natives through the perspective of a Native and not the colonizers. Book three focuses on the Gold Rush in the late 1800’s. As a fourth grade teacher I have used curriculum that only highlights the stories of success and failures of people who migrated during the gold rush. Because of this, I decided to do my own research in hopes of finding better resources to teach about the gold rush through a more authentic point of view. Most American curriculum fails to teach the major effects the gold rush had both on the Natives of California and the land of California. Through this book, students are able to appreciate and respect the ways Natives lived and respected their land. They also learn the horrible events they had to go through and are still going through as Natives. This book allows students to see Natives in a very humanizing way and are aware that they are still among us trying to reconnect with everything that was taken from them; their culture, language, food, traditions, customs, and land.
Gary Robinson’s series of Lands of Our Ancestors are such a critical and important tool that all California schools should be implementing in their history curriculum. It truly does an amazing job of telling the story of California natives through the perspective of a Native and not the colonizers. Book three focuses on the Gold Rush in the late 1800’s. As a fourth grade teacher I have used curriculum that only highlights the stories of success and failures of people who migrated during the gold rush. Because of this, I decided to do my own research in hopes of finding better resources to teach about the gold rush through a more authentic point of view. Most American curriculum fails to teach the major effects the gold rush had both on the Natives of California and the land of California. Through this book, students are able to appreciate and respect the ways Natives lived and respected their land. They also learn the horrible events they had to go through and are still going through as Natives. This book allows students to see Natives in a very humanizing way and are aware that they are still among us trying to reconnect with everything that was taken from them; their culture, language, food, traditions, customs, and land.
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