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American Indian Issues: An Introductory and Curricular Guide for Educators
Contains links to historical overview and nine lesson plans, including: Mascots, Symbols, and Name; Federal Indian Policy: Historical Roots and 19th Century Policies; Indian Boarding Schools; Red Power; and American Indian Tribal Gaming.
Boarding School vs. Day School Experiences
Brainwashing and Boarding Schools: Undoing the Shameful Legacy
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Assimilation with Education after the Indian Wars
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac: A Curriculum Guide
English First Peoples: Grade 10-12 Resource Guide
Exploring the Stories Behind Native American Boarding Schools
Lesson plan involves students looking at primary source documents about people (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) who participated in the schools and then assuming their identity and writing a journal.
Healing the Generations Residential School Curriculum
Indian Boarding Schools: A Case Study of Assimilation, Resistance, and Resilience
Indian Boarding Schools: Tools of Forced Assimilations, 1870 to the 1960s
Jim Thorpe: The World's Greatest Athlete: Study Guide
Literature Circle Guide to: Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Literature Circle Questions
Living Voices Native Vision: Study Guide
[Model Teaching Unit for] Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac.
Native American Boarding Schools
Native American Boarding Schools: The Education and Cultural Transformation of American Indians under the United States Government Boarding Schools
Native American Music from Wounded Knee to the Billboard Charts: A Document Based Exploration
Lesson uses interviews with Pat Vegas and Redbone from the documentary Rumble: The Indians That Rocked the World as a jumping-off point to examine the U.S. government's efforts to control Native American culture by way of music.
Resource Database
Teaching American Indian History with Primary Sources
Tribes Confront Painful Legacy Of Indian Boarding Schools
Lesson plan uses text of newspaper article by Marsha King, originally published in the Seattle Times February 3, 2008.