Blackfoot Warrior Shirts
The Blue Lake Issue
Boarding School vs. Day School Experiences
Book Guide for How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable Retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater, Illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
Book Reviews
Books about, or Featuring, American Indians That Are Not Recommended
Annotated list gives reasons why material is considered inappropriate.
Books to Avoid
Boundaries of the Reservation: Social, Political and Geographical Considerations for Defining the Limits of the Keweenaw Bay Chippewa Reservation
Bowwow Powwow
Lesson plan for book written by Brenda J. Child and illustrated by Jonathan Thunder. Designed for Pre-K to Grade 2.
Brainwashing and Boarding Schools: Undoing the Shameful Legacy
Buffalo Past and Present
Uses the Madison Buffalo Jump State Park as a starting point to discuss the buffalo's importance in the economies, cosmologies, social organization, and spiritual life of Indigenous peoples of the plains. Recommended for use with Grade 9-12 students.
The Building of a Canoe
Brief text accompanied by archival photographs. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Bwaanzhiiwi'onan = Regalia
Colouring book with Ojibwe and English text.
Campfire Stories with George Catlin: an Encounter of Two Cultures
Canoe, Canoe, What Can You Do?
Six stories connected to the Northwest coast canoe in one volume: Look at What I Found!; Ocean-Going "Fishing" Canoe; Building of a Canoe; Carving of a Canoe; and Herbie & Slim Nellie's First Journey.
Canoes and Canoe Journeys
Primarily designed for Kindergarten to Grade 5 students enrolled in Chinuk Wawa immersion programs.
What Do I Bail? student booklet in English. What Do I Bail? student booklet in Chinuk Wawa.
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Assimilation with Education after the Indian Wars
Carlos Montezuma’s Fight against “Bureauism”: An Unexpected Pima Hero
Cattle and Sovereignty in the Work of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
Celebrate Diversity, Strengthen Community
Introduction to biases and stereotypes about Indigenous and other groups.
Ceremony Earth: Digitizing Silko’s Novel for Students of the Twenty-first Century
Changemakers Lesson Plans: Remote Learning
Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.
Chíin: Salmon
Science unit also teaches Haida vocabulary. Intended for use with Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
[Children's Book Activity Sheets for Home-Based Learning]
Chipmunk Meets Old Witch (At-At-A'Tia)
Children's book retells a traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-2.
Related material: Lesson Plan.
Circle of Stories
A Class Divided Study Guide
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two: Meet-the-Author Book Reading
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac: A Curriculum Guide
A Collection of Curricula for the STARLAB Native American Mythology Cylinder. Including Stories of the Early Americans by Gary D. Kratzer; Background Information on the Navajo by Gloria D. Rall; More Native American Star Legends by Doris Forror
Although designed for use with the STARLAB cylinder, contains script which can be adapted for use without it.
A Collection of Native American Literature for Children K-8
Commentary: Tribal Implementation of GIS: A Case Study of Planning Applications With the Colville Confederated Tribes
A Comparison of CVM Survey Response Rates, Protests and Willingness-to-Pay of Native Americans and General Population for Fuels Reduction Polices
Compensation for the Plundering of $18 Billion of Sioux Gold, Silver and Other Natural Resources from the Black Hills is Unjust and Unacceptable
Compilation of Abstracts: Effective Teaching of American Indian Students: A Preliminary Response; Addendum: Additional Native Hawaiian Resources
Computers and Writing
Connecting Cultures and Classrooms: K-12 Curriculum Guide (Language Arts, Science, Social Studies)
Contemporary Native American Art
Content and Activities for Teaching about Indians of Washington State: Grades K-6
Covers three geographic regions: Washington coast, Puget Sound and the Plateau. Each topic is divided into pre-contact, contact and contemporary times.
Converging Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems: Implications for Tertiary Education
Corn Husk Dolls
Includes brief instructions in both English and Seneca and the story Legend of the No Face Doll.
Coyote and the Stars
A Coyote Columbus Story: Written by Thomas King, Illustrated by William Kent [M]onkman
Teacher's resource for the children's adaptation of humorous story which retells the story of Christopher Columbus from an Indigenous point of view.
Suitable for Grades K to 3.
Coyote in Love: The Story of Crater Lake: Illustrated & Retold by Mindy Dwyer: Teacher Resource
Story about how Coyote's love for a star resulted in the formation of a lake in Oregon.
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.