This seminar for educators will explore how societies define who belongs and who does not based on the stories they tell. 

Featuring Warren Seyler of the Spokane Tribe of Indians and local and international scholars, including Jan Grabowski, James Waller, Wolfgang Schmutz, and others, the program will examine how founding narratives helped justify the persecution and murder of European Jews during the Holocaust and the exploitation and persecution of Indigenous peoples in America. 

Participants will also consider how these narratives continue to influence public discourse about marginalized communities today, and how critically thinking about these historical intersections provides students the opportunity to make meaning from, and apply their learning to their current world. 

• Cost upon acceptance: $50
• WA educators receive up to 27 clock hours
• Limited number of travel OR substitute teacher stipends up to $125
• Application deadline: February 15, 2027 (acceptances will be sent out afterwards)