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Autumn Reading with Fun Activities: How Coyote Gave Fire to the People: A Native American Story
Traditional story about how coyote, with the help of other animals, stole fire from the Fire Protectors and gave it to humans so that they could stay warm during the winter months.
Beaver Steals Fire
Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves
Book Reviews
The Concept of Duality in Culture and Myths of Lakota Indians
Coyote Places the Stars [by] Harriet Peck Taylor
Designed to accompany retelling of traditional Wasco story about how stars came to be arranged in the shapes of animals. Recommended for use with Grade 3 students.
Cree Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Exploring the Night Sky Indigenous Inquiry Kit
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms
The Great Flood
Traditional story suitable for use with Grade 4-7 students. Extract from the book The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway.
How Raven Marked the Land When the Earth Was New
Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church: Visual Culture, Missionization and Appropriation
Inuit Symbolism of the Bearded Seal
It Consumes What It Forgets
Joseph Bruchac's "Dark" Novels: Confronting the Terror of Adolescence
Landscape as Narrative, Narrative as Landscape
A Lifetime of Native American Architecture: Building Towards the Indigenous Millennium
[Native Achievers Series: Donald L. Fixico]
The Native American Experience: The World on the Turtle's Back
Student lesson to accompany the Iroquois creation story.
Native American Humor and Its Reflections in the Work of Sherman Alexie
The Navajo Tradition - Transition to the Bahá’í Faith
Never Alone: The Art and the People of the Story
The Noble Savage and Ecological Indian: Cultural Dissonance and Representations of Native Americans in Literature
The Ojibwe Who Slew the Wiindigo
Preserving Tradition and Understanding the Past: Papers From the Conference on Iroquois Research, 2001-2005
Pulling Down the Clouds: The O'odham Intellectual Tradition During the "Time of Famine"
Raven Imagery in Northwest Coast Indian Art
Raven Tales: Traditional Quileute Stories of Bayak, the Trickster
Includes five stories: Raven and Bear; Raven and Fishduck; Raven and Mole; Raven and Skatefish; and Raven and Eagle.
Respect, Responsibility, and Renewal: The Foundations of Anishinaabe Treaty Making with the United States and Canada
A Review of The Navajo and the Animal People: Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnozoology
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians, Dutch, and English on Seventeenth-Century Long Island Sound
Seeing the Skies through Navajo Eyes: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Astronomy
Designed as a resource for planetariums, for middle school teachers, and a book that families can read together.
Sherman Alexie's Reservation: Relocating the Center of Indian Identity
Teacher Resource Guide: English 10 and 11 First Peoples
Telling New Myths: Contemporary Native American Animal Narratives From Michigan
The Trickster Critique: How Parody in Contemporary Native American Art Challenges Authenticity and Authority within Mainstream Museums
Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations
Truth versus Twilight
Turquoise in the Life of American Indians
Unearthing the Chumash Presence in The Sharpest Sight
The Walam Olum: An Indigenous Apocrypha and Its Readers
A Woodland Creation Story: A Concise Version
Based on the Iroquois story as told by John A. Gibson in the 1890s. Done in a glossary format.