Audience participation is encouraged. This experiential workshop will involve participants in several hands-on activities that will help them gain insight toward helping youth understand and appreciate differences. Participants should come prepared to interact and share ideas or methods they have used to counteract intolerant behavior. Mr. Biggs is a retired secondary school teacher and a life-long student of ancient Native American culture. His collection represents only surface collected artifacts.
New research yields fresh insights, which confirm or alter previous assumptions.
The first Americans, their origin or origins, cosmology, and ritual practices as well as their economic, family, and political life are under constant reinterpretation. Keeping abreast of this evolving body of scholarship has been a life-long avocation of Mr. Biggs. Dr. J. Q. Adams, Western Illinois University J. Q. Adams, Ph. D. is a professor in the Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies Department of Western Illinois University. He earned his Doctoral Degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in Educational Psychology. Dr. Adams is a frequent presenter and consultant on both a statewide and national level.