UW-Green Bay contributes to conference on K-12 education, American Indians

UW-Green Bay faculty and staff members were part of a group of 40 educators who gathered to further the understanding of issues related to the history, culture and tribal sovereignty of Wisconsin’s American Indian tribes and bands. The 13th annual American Indian Studies Summer Institute is taking place at the Oneida Nation’s Turtle Elementary School. Prof. Lisa Poupart, chair of the First Nations Studies program, described for the Press-Gazette how the state mandate to ingrain awareness of native issues in K-12 curricula (Wisconsin Act 31) is an outgrowth of the 1980s and unruly protests in northern Wisconsin over treaty rights, a history addressed at the weeklong workshop. Read article.