I think it takes place in the early 1900s. Book opens with the town hit by a large flood where a white man and his servant are in a boat searching for survivors when they find a woman just sitting in a hotel room with water up to her waist. She eventually marries the son of well to do family that owns a wood mill and is led by a matriarch.
The woman found in the hotel is a river creature that can transform into a woman but periodically must eat a person. Otherwise, she is a good wife and mother but never gains the trust of approval of the family matriarch.
Eventually she is able to "remove" people that stand in her way and helps her husband take over the mill and buy up land all around town to become even wealthier.
She also actively works against the building of a damn on the river.
I think the book might have originally been written as a series of short stories perhaps written in the 1980. I want to say the author's name was Michael... maybe?
How do we win the majority?
I feel like most Americans vote along social issues rather than economic policy. if we created a populist movement centered around left-wing economic policy while co-opting societal and cultural values that the right aspires to we can rally overwhelming public support.
Rural Americans need to be won over. I'm not really sure how we do that as some aspects of their culture and values are incompatible with human decency (Racism, homophobia, etc.) but I feel like abandoning the anti-gun stance is good step in the direction of bringing more rural Americans on board with socialist ideology.
Another value we share with rural folk is our distaste for corruption in government. Many libertarians also hate citizens united, and recognize how government can be manipulated and used to pick winners and losers in the economy- they just don't put 2 and 2 together when it comes to the wealthy being the ones doing that manipulating. They almost blame the tool over the user of that tool.
We can take their fears and redirect them at the actual root cause, which in many cases is capitalism, we just have to brand it the right way to get the message across.
Thoughts?
I posted in r/teachers subreddit and noticed that searching “Native American Heritage Month” got no results.
I want to start by saying that you owe me nothing, and I am not looking for any kind of praise for simply attempting to not lie to our next generation.
At my school, many older teachers still have a mock “Thanksgiving dinner” in their classrooms, and they read the Thanksgiving story, which is not true.
I want to focus on Native American Heritage Month instead. My plan right now is to research the Tribes that lives in our area and use texts to teach about their culture (homes, clothes, language, folktales, etc).
As someone who is not indigenous, I feel like I can’t do this on my own, and I’m not suited to create a unit about your history.
It is not your responsibility to teach me, but it seems like good teaching resources don’t exist. I searched “Native American Heritage Month” on teacherspayteachers.com and nothing looked good for my age group (MANY teachers use this site).
Do you know of any resources, books, etc that I could use? Also, many of our teachers are on the fence about how to teach about Thanksgiving, and I know that if I create a solid unit, I could make big changes happen. I don’t want to speak for you while I do it.
TLDR; my students are six years old, but this is when the lies about Thanksgiving, “Indians,” and Christopher Columbus start. Does anyone know of books, resources, teaching materials I could use to do this better? Searching in the places I know if has not helped.
I have nothing to do with the show, and not trying to market anything, but this was the first I heard he was coming here on tour.
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