All right, everybody ready, they get scarred it for, for our presentation. Let me go to the poorest relative scientists focusing on never go way back. Yet again. I'm going to go mostly everybody at some point in time is going to be getting something about Columbus, whether it's somebody thing in October or other times div, oftentimes we did, but we don't really know much about what was going on in the Caribbean for 1000 years, anything, right? And it gave me, don't know about the people that he encountered in that culture being kinda because he do very good job of time telling us about that, right? And so this is one of the reasons why we don't think we're looking pretty climate aspects to this first year. Somebody can kind of get this better. We can understand people's backgrounds, industries as well too. So luis is going to be doing that for us today, please. Central Florida. Either you want to Cuba in there for a couple of years, right? That's revolution, yes. And then he has a wide range of publications. A lot of colonial Caribbeans. Yeah, after I wrote a book on the Cuban Revolution, when that happened and so forth all the way. All right. It's much say yeah. Yeah. So that that kind of ties in which a second kid I didn't just say so. Yeah. One of the things that I found was an excerpt of whether there's writing the duties that I thought it was fantastic because he is actively pursuing them through plugged into letters, editorial articles, participates in documentaries to exhibit the museum exhibits, any collaboration's with K12 teachers. And we kept, we've talked about this. It's like, you know, historians are not doing their job if they're not engaging in teachers taught at. That's something that Tom is, you're near that Louise has heart and die. That's what a year. Last night. Lord. To do this, right, to be with us though. Got it quite late. I might invite them both. Then I found out. So wide awake now and he's going to do breaker. He's glad for that introduction. I'm so happy to be here. That's the Pedagogical part of my career, is something that is very rare. I wonder why they don't work together. As Professor, thank you. I teach. But as people, professionals will have the common goal of moving our students forward. In life. I am an advocate for teachers, and I'm not saying this because teachers, sometimes I get in trouble. We're talking about having a mike advocate and traveled in saying things like, teachers are with first responders against ignorance into jail. Pillars for our democracy, especially teach students of social sciences in civics. It is always essential. I say that from the bottom of my heart. Now, I've put together a couple of presentations. One is the general one that I'll start with. There's another one, which is an archeological dig that you may find useful for your students. As I was listening to earlier presentations, the work realia is known to me. I thought that the word artifact is a nice word. That is, it's fine. But I was thinking that I'll share with you what I was thinking later when we get to that. It's like and I also have for elementary students some handouts. This was called, I got to find an anticodon. Said, whoops, I'm glad to share. And also the advertising important work W expansion. There's this wonderful book, the work albicans, which is a collection of documents. And some are even newspaper articles, some are professional historians articles. But it's a wonderful sort of Mel, My name is in a painting that was explaining how do we get a penny and royalties me because I was still going on tool original ed towards inviting me to update it. So I did that. So it's it's advertising but not I don't think there's no conflict of interest there. Oh, okay. I love nature and not knowing that I was going to do this, which is connected to teaching with sources for the Library of Congress many years ago. Well, not that I visited the Library of Congress and there was a beautiful exhibit of Taino artifacts. And that's a picture that I took. They are not knowing that I was going to use it today, but it's a beautiful vase. Now. Four years. And an all teachers do this as well. I've struggled about how to make the material interesting to students, stimulate challenging at, I'm not proud of the way I taught are all diagonals years ago. But I decided to, well, I decided to introduce some aspects to the teaching on my emails. They have to do with conceptual knowledge, certain terminologies that are useful to apply. And I also, I like the hands on learning. Also, you will see a little bit of that. You can. So to get started. Do you know that I know works for you tonight? Have a good solid PowerPoint. That's why bother why body Granger. Try hand and then acquires the words in barbecue. Thank you very much for your foods. Were young boy inking, That's the name of the eye. And so there are many words that were thought into Spanish and then from Spanish to English, no barrier. One of the mysteries that thinking about is, well, the diagonal population. Yes, those indigenous villages were destroyed very, very early on. But then why is it that there are so many place names in Puerto Rico, there are indigenous, which you will find that to the same extent in other parts in the United States, for example. So that's one thing that it doesn't keep me awake at night. But so these are some of them got all our irrigate, cotton, the Balkan, they are tiny volcano, Navaho, barbecue and many others. Now, I want to show you that. I'm showing you this map early on because this is a map that reflects the way in which most of the teaching on the pre-Columbian Caribbean was done. And I came to my senses and I asked him, I said, Well, this is too static and this reflects 14 year, but at the time of Columbus, It's a snapshot. That's not fun. What's fun is to see the development over time when different groups of indigenous people move to different parts of the Caribbean and they interacted with each other. That's the exciting part. So I'm using this as an example of something that I used to use in the past when I've taught them all the different groups. Now, it can get a little bit complicated because there are so many technical names and names of particular groups. Some of them here. So what I decided was, well, what is worthwhile teaching? Is it that students are going to take with them? Now, I wrote a book in which there's a chapter on these various groups. And to be honest with you, I forget the names. There's something, yeah. But you were the author. So what I've done here is to emphasize some conceptual terminology that I think is more important than real life. Then keeping in your memory the names of smaller groups of indigenous people with a Mesolithic Neolithic. I find a lot of value in that, Hey, students can learn those concepts, that they can apply them to other situations. Of course, the characteristics casually. And by the way, lithic, as you know, means stone and paleo is Old Stone Age. Neolithic is no stones. So we're talking in the Caribbean of our stone age peak. Now you've heard about them. I use another presentation. You didn't find anything like that for you. That's why the archaeological record is relatively poor. Were talking about. And by the way, the word civilization is another. Learning concept, which when I learned that meant, well, what, what three elements have to be there in order to call a culture or society and civilization. And one of them is a system of written language doesn't have to be alphabetical. And the other one is the use of mammals. And then the other one is cities, large, large enough conurbations of p k. Now, I am going to ignore this whole column of the groups. Again, the kind of thing we forget, even those who teach. Actually, the only thing that I'm going to keep paying attention to, who is our cake? The earliest of the Caribbean, and binds to them. Okay, so we know that some of the indigenous people that the Europeans encountered. Barry, I like your idea about teaching indigenous history from the perspective of the indigenous people. Now, we, we know The explorers that conquistador, some of the early chroniclers, solve many things that were bewildering to electric eels and eaters. What the world is this. And they really struggle with, with, first of all, making sense of it. But one of the things I included my teaching is, well, knowing what we know about the diagonals and their worldview, what would they have fallen? Or Renton? And they could, when they saw the arrival of those first European vessels. And then the Spaniards with beards. And then guns, that must be the dd, then somehow manage to channel. So this reflects our case. They are like savages. They do not have houses, nor settlements, towns, nor plants and Field. Asked musical piece the Q. Well, this is after he had seen the biennials that were far more advance. Now, that's the extent of the evidence of archaic cultures. And I want to come back to this map. The darker is where it was more concentrated in the Caribbean, darker. So now hunter-gatherers, that's an important concept. Because then we're going to introduce students to the Neolithic Revolution, which I think is one of the most revolutionary moments, although it can happen in different places at different times, because it changed everything. So we go from these hunter-gatherers that pump it to something completely different and far more complex than for me to talk about it. Now. Or pay tools. Palaeolithic, they use tools that we're now policy. So they were made mostly by shipping. And that is the record that they left behind the caves. They move from island to island canoes. And now we're going to start talking all of it by ethos. We're at the time for me to, they were by far the largest, by far the most advanced various groups. So this is Columbus. These people are very unique and shy, naked without weapons and without government. Now. And he also says that they don't have religion. But he was selling, which is not true. Of course. He's selling the idea, further investment in the enterprise of exploring the America. So everything is beautiful. According to Columbus. That's the expected. Indians or religion is equal. So we find the most, most valid in the island of Hispaniola, also Puerto Rico. But in the case of Cuba, they diagnose were migrating from northern South America, island hopping. They didn't quite make it as far as the western tip of Cuba. So that is the extent of the diagonals above. I could spend some time. I'm curious in your teaching, wherever the diagonals fit it in your teaching and your books that you may use text itself rather than on somebody. So with that, celebrate his lap and they look bad. I know the vanished. Why the paradigm? What I'm talking about. That's right. That's where major overhauls and actually when Columbus return, as you know, this information of oil invest behind and some of the spores they go and they misbehave. And the indigenous people came after themselves with Columbus. The four that they had built from these, for the remains of that vessel. It was destroyed and everybody who's gone. I don't allow passive account Hoffman clamps to the boss isn't going well. Yes, less confident. It's, it's a great tool for teaching. Especially if you pair. It costs us who've worked with Spaniard and very self-critical what northern Europeans did with his attacks or his criticism. It's incredible because it became so Brune. Although black legend and illustrators of blokes, these became best sellers at the time in places like good evening friends with even American history textbook from 1970. Yeah. Yeah, that's an interesting story of Black Folk cultures. So this is roughly that by areas and the greatest concentration is here, which includes what are the legal. But again, I want to emphasize actually it's funny because that was the highest level of advanced agriculture changes everything. So they no longer have to be running in small bands, running after the animals or running, or berries and seeds, are they? So they did that allows what's called the Neolithic Revolution, which is an interesting concept. So here you see, you've got the two. That was the base of a plane. And there's a relationship between agriculture and the development of pottery. Because you have to, the islands when you've gathered fulfillment Potter, you coat them in pottery. So these generally than two now to gather agriculture. And the development of the ceramics mentioned earlier to invade the island yet. And that's an example from the island. The edges a little bit more sophisticated than the previous one. And then this one, which is my favorite one, It's a heart shaped vessel. I don't know because I've read that it's 0. And the museum in Istanbul mean bold, but I saw it at the Library of Congress where I took the picture. I suspect that he was alone. These are other items from the Library of Congress, the Polish. So when we go from the arcade to the Neolithic by you know, there's a development of the technology used to make cutting knives, axes. Very pause. Which of course takes me one time. And that's one of the resolve of the Neolithic Revolution because before that, everybody in these bands have to be running after the animals that had to be picking the berries and seeds. But what Agriculture does is that it liberates a proportion of the population to engage in other activities that we're going to talk about in a few minutes. So making better tools as well. I would like for you to take a look at those two hands. See what, see what we can make of them together. Because we're all fine. Neolithic, much Neolithic ever this year. So let's start with this. What, what can we infer from that map? Is there some kind of invisible barrier that delineates about midway through the hard paint, culture and culture don't vote. Very good question, What is this very flat rate? But it's very logical way of thinking about this. They don't heal that the cultures are those islands. This their soil better for growing crops because there's, the circles will move from the hunter-gatherer areas marked for agricultural goods. You're doing what I would like you to do that, to speculate, to try to find, to come to a conclusion, to ask the kinds of questions that historians ask. Anybody else? Yes. Another question is there are while being on plus your hand or both? Federal area. Okay. Good good point. So looking at this one Yes. Valgrind way as a part of the world. Yes. That's true. The access to those are the deeds themselves. Not in this case. But when we look at the archaic cultures, did they come from? Because obviously there were not a spontaneous creation and the Caribbean. So where did they come from? Based on this floor, or Central America. But there's many, many similarities. What do you look at the artifacts from floor? Because they all make this, this far. Now. What about the other, nevertheless a meal? Cultures? What can we draw kinds of questions? Again, these were the younger cultural people who did not develop cities, villages, that could be a 1000 people. Yes. When we talk about our theme, if you like, but the diverse and reminders. Very good. So the molecule pole or the complexity of society, we begin to see our arse do is use the term classes, but they don't really apply. A year would be more like CAS or estates. But you see what it used to be up of basically egalitarian group of people who were talking about bands of about 50 people to the creation of hierarchies. And that's another important aspect out this looking at these things. And I'm not an expert in indigenous Caribbean history, just an historian who asks questions. And my question was, well, physically expand the lit by eagles. We don't see them here. There's not much evidence of them there. When you get these. And I think I have another map later on in which I put the Maps superimpose one on the other. And that led me to be a theory. And who am I? I'm not an expert on the indigenous Caribbean and I never bark. And then in a day, well, my thesis is that you find by eagles whose origins are in among the our wax up north, north or south America. That they really become finalists. They're not before. And what allows us to diagnose and use my speculation. Nobody has yet to call me on it. But my speculation. That will allow them to be caught by eagles and advance and have experts in a variety of theories that are talking about is the fact that they came together and they subjugated the less technologically sophisticated arcades. Actually. Allow me Marina, just a couple of paragraphs. Knowledge of the various waves of migration and the application of strictly defined categories, while useful, presents a static view of a pre-Columbian Caribbean. The snapshot, if you will, taking one particular moment, say 490, to know what's the value of that? 1492? Well, it could be before that. These movements of people and their material culture, practices and worldviews were far more dynamic and complex phenomenon that this static view would suggest. For one, evidence, groups that originated in Central America kept in contact with and travel back and forth. That's something that those maps don't tell us. And sometimes you find certain materials they can't find naturally in the islands. J, for example. So you find the J figuring, Well, that's an example of a TRE and continuous relations that occur. Moreover, while there is an inclination to accept the general idea that more advanced groups pushed more primitive roots. They came in With farther west as they absorb them. Now, that two has come into question. And one thing that is very interesting, some of the recent studies say that, and this, I don't know, barium and others know more about this than I do. But that there were instances in which the diagonals, the Neolithic, our soar technology and even some of them won't tease some of the motifs in the production of pottery, for example, prompting our case, moving according to textbooks, are not supposed to have pottery. What makes the Caribbean very, very interesting? So sedentary lifestyle, you don't have to be moving around. So you stay in an area. You no longer have to go where the caves are for natural shelter. So you start building wheels, which is the name for those. Plus, I said this was from the Library of Congress. And I wish I had that we were talking about earlier. These boxes, trunks. Problem tries because there is no substitute for actually touching something even if it's not a ribosome. Reproductions. I drew this in my classes when I teach the Cuban revolution to secret that I have a, I have eBay addiction or by, I wrote five and I'm told that it's text. What did you use them in the classroom? My accountant and reminds me, I hope not real. So Cuba implements historical artifacts, flags, and I put them in a table called 2030. And this is his walk around and touchstone smell. And one day I realized that I had a student. Well, I know he was blind, but how are we going to accommodate to made sure that he has the same learning experience. So there was this very old book, old from the early 1960s, which was used in Cuba to teach literacy, was a literacy campaign so that everybody on the island would be able to read and write. And you know, when you're a teacher, obese case, just spark. We do this with our care and making sure that they're all work together. They're all in to what we're doing. So I said, What did you pick this book? What can you tell me about this? Well, is very flimsy. Not very good paper. Okay. You're right, because these were books that were made in a hurry go host. And they wanted to produce these books. Hundreds. To hundreds of thousands of copies of these, of this book. And Cuba was going through difficulties once it broke relations with the United States. So it's an example of how everybody can be brought to the table. And the key is, and you know this, but I do put yourself in their position. Imagine what it would be like to be a blind student. Table. And the professor asked you to touch this space that, and what does this look like and what are the symbols? So I would love, I would actually love to have one of those trunks for my own teaching. That's another picture I took at the Library of Congress, and this is an x. But what's interesting about this Ax is that it's ceremonial. Just look at it. It doesn't make a lot of sense that you're going to use that to cut wood. Which tells us something about the sophistication. I want to talk about the religion in just a couple of minutes. So that is a ceremonial. This is from one piece of stone. Just imagine the hours that he must have taken off for a week. Fats like maybe more in European. But like spear, spear throwers that had animals are like Merge Shapes. Is the, is the animal association like a connection to a particular like group that associates together. Like this spear thrower might have a vote on it and they might even have altogether sorted that's like their symbol for it there. I'm going to use the word client because that's not great worry about like tribe, a group of people. Do you think that I wouldn't have anything to do with that or not? I don't know, but I don't think so. Because we find similar objects in the spot to make enqueue. Well, as I said, bones, you find most of them greater concentrations of any spiny yoga. And sometimes that's why I want to focus on the categorizations two lines, because they're called classic titles. I mean, it's funny on Eastern time. And there are Wesleyan might be extra strength. That's why more complicated for the, for the students or myself. Now, talk about hierarchy and talk about luxury items. This is a, this, it doesn't look like something we would buy Ikea, but it is actually a chair. It is a ceremonial chair that carries that this things, none of it by a diagonal Cassie can achieve. Not everybody could sit there. And again, that's from the Library of Congress. And a lot of artifacts have morphic motifs. You will see that a lot. But then this is another example which looks a little bit more comfortable than the other one. And again, these are for the goseq is, it is a distinction. So yeah, higher luxury items are that only values. And this will actually as t. The other aspect is religion. Religion. Actually, we find religion and I'm on the Palaeolithic. And one way of knowing that won't be our case. One way of knowing that is the borough practices. There's a connection. I read years ago.
5 May 14 Workshop Indigeneous Carribbean
From Carol Wong May 16, 2022
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