Marsha Weisiger
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Four Corners Project

Organized by Michael Welsh of the University of Northern Colorado and supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History program, the Four Corners Project brought me home to the Southwest to meet with teachers on the West Slope and in the Four Corners Region.We focused on the history of the American West and how students and teachers can recover more of that history through family stories and oral interviews. We also explored strategies and resources for teaching women's history and the broader framework of American history.

My goal is to help teachers in their important work. Below are readings for your own continuing education and some resources that you can bring to your classrooms.



Readings for teachers

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Marsha Weisiger, "Gendered Injustice: Navajo Livestock Reduction in the New Deal Era

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Christine Colasurdo,"'Tell Me a Woman's Story': The Question of Gender in the Construction of Waheenee,
Pretty Shield,  and Papago Woman" 


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Kim Warren, "Separate Spheres: Analytical Persistence in United States Women's History" 

Resources for Classrooms

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Frank B. Linderman, Pretty Shield: Medicine
Woman of the Crows (excerpt)

High school readings

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Zitkala-Sa, Atlantic Monthly stories

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Elizabeth Dixon Smith Greer, Oregon Trail Diary

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Amelia Stewart Knight, Diary of an Oregon Pioneer

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Mary Hallock Foote, A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West
(Leadville, CO)

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Elva Trevino Hart,
Barefoot Heart (excerpt)


Young readers

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Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter (excerpts)

Slideshow

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Women and gender slide show (PowerPoint)

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  • Home
  • Writings
    • Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country
    • Scholarly Essays
    • Journal Writings
  • Research
    • Western Rivers
    • Ecotopia Rising
  • Teaching
    • Graduate Study
    • Archival Sources
    • Resources
    • Four Corners Project
    • Middle Ground Project
  • Speaking
  • Contact