https://blog.associatie.kuleuven.be/brunoleys/race-and-queerness-in-elt-looking-back-and-forward/

Decolonizing Thanksgiving And Supporting Indigenous Peoples https://popularresistance.org/decolonizing-thanksgiving/ by Margaret Flowers
The article begins:

>This week, as some people in the United States celebrated the mythical ‘Thanksgiving’ dinner, Indigenous Peoples held a National Day of Mourning and continued their resistance to defend the land and water. As Native American, Matt Remle, writes: Despite colonial efforts to exterminate, terminate, relocate, and assimilate Indigenous populations, Native communities continue to resist efforts to both desecrate Unci Maka and strip Native peoples of their languages, spirituality and communities.”
Settler colonialism continues to this day in the United States and around the world as do resistance efforts to reclaim what has been lost, including land, access to sacred sites, clean water, culture and sovereignty. Remle makes the point that non-Indigenous people benefit from this resistance. Around the world, Indigenous people are leading the way to end exploitation and build a better future for all of us.

WELL WORTH READING THE REST.

What a challenging time it is for social justice educators. We do our best to deal with the pandemic, often by teaching remotely. We try to educate our students to better understand the history and dynamics of structural racism — most visible now in police violence, health care, the criminal justice system — and the outpouring of resistance to it. These are complicated ideas and necessitate careful and challenging teaching to address news that can be frightening and confusing to students.

Open Minds to Equality (4th edition, 2014) is a valuable resource for addressing these challenges. It provides a sequential series of learning activities to educate students about racism and other forms of discrimination so they can respond with understanding and critical perspectives to current manifestations of white supremacy and be more able to act for change in developmentally appropriate ways.

Below are two lessons from Open Minds to Equality , adapted for remote learning, that can address such students’ concerns and feelings. While lessons in the book are developmentally appropriate for students from grades 4-8, the ones highlighted here are particularly appropriate for grades 6-8. If these activities are too advanced for your students, earlier lessons in the book provide more basic understandings.
We hope two lessons will pique your interest. If you don’t already have Open Minds to Equality, we encourage you get it as a resource for your ongoing teaching as we continue to teach so that Black Lives Matter.

See the full pdf on the two lessons here: http://rethinkingschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Teaching-Anti-Racist-Lessons-from-OMTE-Remotely-FINAL.pdf

— A LEGACY OF RACISM
— DIFFERENT KINDS OF BIAS: DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES

Here on the book: OPEN MINDS TO EQUALITY https://rethinkingschools.org/books/open-minds-to-equality-4th-edition/