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Revolution in Art

Revolution in Art A:shiwi (Zuni) Sh. Ashiwi Polychrome Water Jar A:shiwi (Zuni) Sh. Ashiwi Polychrome Water Jar, ca. 1630–1690. National Museum of

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Life Story: Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1715)

city of Nuremberg. Maria Sibylla’s reputation as an artist spread quickly in her new city, and she started teaching other young women how to paint and draw. She also studied the plant and insect life of Nuremberg, and continued to create her art. In

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Vermeer’s Portrait of Wealth and Trade

Museum of Art, Marquand Collection / Gift of Henry G. Marquand. PGRpdiBjbGFzcz0iY29udGVudC1kaXZpZGVyIj48L2Rpdj4= Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) was a Dutch painter who worked during the 1600s, a time when culture in the Dutch Republic flourished

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A Nun Challenges the Patriarchy

: Sybilla Masters, inventor from Pennsylvania, Anne Bradstreet, poet from Massachusetts, and Maria Sybilla Merian, scientist in Surinam. Did the hypocrisy Sor Juana critiques exist in other colonial cultures? Invite your students to answer this question by

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Education in New France

converts would teach Catholic doctrine and French culture to their communities, speeding up the process of converting Native communities. Some Native parents sent their daughters to the convents to protect them from the years of war, famine, and disease

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Mourning Poetry of Anne Bradstreet

soon were terminate; Since thou art settled in an Everlasting state. By nature Trees do rot when they are grown, And Plumbs and Apples thoroughly ripe do fall, And Corn and grass are in their season mown, And time brings down what is both strong and

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Life Story: Quashawam

, and Revolution in Art. In Quashawam’s lifetime the Shinnecock were subordinate to the Montaukett, but today the Shinnecock are a federally recognized tribe, and the Montaukett are fighting to achieve the same recognition. Invite students to research

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Depictions of Pocahontas

possibility of Indigenous people assimilating into European culture. These were often racist in nature and tell us more about the people who created them than about Pocahontas herself. The first image is a portrait of Pocahontas made in England in 1616 for

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Indigenous Agricultural Innovation

American Indians and Europeans Use this object in any lesson about the daily life and culture of pre-contact Indigenous people. Digging sticks have been used by cultures all over the world. Have students research and compare digging sticks from other

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Life Story: The Gateras of Quito

), Life Story: Kateri Tekakwitha, Life Story: Quashawam, and Revolution in Art. POWER AND POLITICS; WORK, LABOR, AND ECONOMY Source Notes Classroom Application. Early Encounters, 1492-1734. Elementary School. High School. Image. International. Latinx

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