TEACHER & MUSEUM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI WORKSHOP
$50 per participant • Box Lunch Included
Workshop limited to museum professionals and teachers only
Learn about local Potawatomi history with Tribal
members of Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation as they
provide Indigenous context in Illinois history and
share information about present-day people. This
is an opportunity for educators in museums and
classrooms to become informed about topics of
Indian Removal, the Indian Citizenship Act, and new
Illinois legislation centered around Native American
history. Illinois HB 1633: Provides that, beginning with
the 2024-2025 school year, every public elementary
school and high school shall include in its curriculum
a unit of instruction studying the events of the
Native American experience and Native American
history within the Midwest and the State since time
immemorial.
CPU credits will be offered for teachers.
All participants are required to submit a
pre-evaluation survey prior to the workshop.
For more information and to sign-up, please visit:
NaperSettlement.org/ProfessionalDevelopment
SPEAKERS:
Raphael Wahwassuck. Prairie
Band Potawatomi Nation Tribal
Council Member
Pannoquah Wahwassuck, Miss
Potawatomi
Nimkii Curley, Turtle Clan Ojibwe
and Black Sheep Salt Clan Navajo
Rose Miron, Director of the
D'Arcy McNickle Center for
American Indian and Indigenous
Studies, Newberry Library
Dr. Megan Bang, Professor
of the Learning Sciences and
Director of the Center for Native
American and Indigenous
Research, Northwestern
University
HOSTED BY:
The Naperville Heritage Society
at Naper Settlement
