History, Tradition, Performance
Margaret M. Bruchac - Teacher Training Workshops

INVITED SPEAKER FOR PROFESSIONAL K-12 

TEACHING DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTES 

(partial list)

2010

• “Indigenous Environments: Expressive Traditions and Ecological Knowledges.” Invited speaker for “Citizenship, Property, Identity, and Representation: The Historical Journey of New England’s Native Peoples.” “Teaching American History” program funded by theNational Endowment for the Humanities at Assumption College, Worcester, MA. July 13, 2010.

2009

• “Comfortably Well-off for Indians: Native Histories in the Northeast from 1800-present.” Invited speaker for Fulbright Summer Teachers’ Institute at Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA. June 25, 2009.

• “Cultural Perceptions and Misconceptions in Understanding Native Peoples." Invited speaker for "Native American & European Interactions: Rethinking Early American History."“Teaching American History” program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Primary Source Institute at West Somerville School, Reading, MA. December 11, 2009.

2008

• “Cultural Misperceptions in Understanding Native Peoples.” Invited speaker for “Native American Perspectives” seminar series for Primary Source Institute, Watertown, MA. October 16, 2008.

• “Native Americans in Colonial New England.” Invited speaker for “Massachusetts History (1620-1812) for Elementary Schools.” “Teaching American History” program funded by theNational Endowment for the Humanities and Primary Source Institute at Coolidge Middle School, Reading, MA. July 15, 2008.

• “The Indian Doctor.” Invited speaker for “Citizenship, Property, Identity, and Representation: the Historical Journey of Southern New England’s Native Peoples.”“Teaching American History” program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA. July 14, 2008.

• “Native Oral Traditions and Connections to Place.” Keynote speaker for “Hudson River Diversity Residency” at Empire State College, White Plains, NY. April 12, 2008.

2006

• “Interpreting the Indian Doctress.” Invited speaker and performer for IMLS Native American Leadership Grant Conference. Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA. May 10, 2006. 

2004

• “Traditional Algonkian Governance Systems.” Invited speaker for “Governing Ourselves: Cultural Traditions of American Indian, African-American and Hispanic Communities.” Urban Consortium for Teaching United States Constitutional History at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Ledyard, CT. June 5, 2004. 

2002

• “The Indian Doctress.” Invited speaker for “Health in the Nineteenth Century.” Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA. November 16, 2002.

• “Connecting Objects to Stories: Insights into Northeast Native Histories.” Invited speaker for “Education and Language Arts.” Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA. July 19, 2002.

• “Hiding in Plain Sight: Abenaki Persistence in Vermont Homelands.” Invited speaker for “The Abenaki of Vermont: A Living Culture,” a series of workshops organized by the Vermont Folklife Center and held in Brattleboro, Manchester, Burlington, St. Johnsbury, and Montpelior, VT. March 18, 22, 25, April 2, 9, 2002.

1999

•  “Ancestral Homelands in the Upper Connecticut River Valley.” Invited speaker for “Homelands and Meeting Places,” a series of workshops organized by the Five College Public School Partnership and Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA. December 1, 1999.

• “Native Legacies: Northeastern Algonkian Musical Traditions.” Keynote speaker for “Teaching America and the Sea with Music and Maps.” Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT. March 20, 1999. 




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