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An American Indian Perspective on Columbus: An Indian Education Curriculum Unit
Purpose of guide is to present educators with accurate information about the "discovery" of America and provide classroom resources to approach the topic in a new way.
American Indian Resource Manual for Public Libraries
American Indian Studies Association Conference Keynote Address – Indigenous Activism: Our Resistance, Our Revitalization, Our Indigenous Native Studies: And Our Healing within Our Indigenous Context (or From Alcatraz 1969 to Standing Rock 2017. Or Perhaps—Truth Be Bold—Liars, Killers, Thieves Invade Sacred Stone Camp)
American Indian Water Rights in Arizona: From Conflict to Settlement, 1950-2004
Anthology of Traditional Tobacco Stories
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.
Ceremony Earth: Digitizing Silko’s Novel for Students of the Twenty-first Century
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac: A Curriculum Guide
Commentary: Tribal Implementation of GIS: A Case Study of Planning Applications With the Colville Confederated Tribes
Compilation of Abstracts: Effective Teaching of American Indian Students: A Preliminary Response; Addendum: Additional Native Hawaiian Resources
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
Cross-Curricular Connect: The Last of the Buffalo
Resource uses the painting by Albert Bierstadt to teach close reading skills, allegory and the importance of wildlife conservation. Includes links to interactive puzzle, team-building game, sorting activity, game-based art survey and inquiry study.
Debating Cultural Appropriation
Lesson plan focuses on what cultural appropriation is, how it affects Indigenous peoples and whether it should be regulated by law.
Accompanying Material: Student Version.
Developed in conjunction with the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World.
The Earliest Americans: Reader
Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide; Timeline Cards; Online Resources
Empowerment or Termination? Native Rights and Resource Regimes in Alaska and Swedish Lapland
Fighting for Our Lives: #NoDAPL in Historical Context
Ganawenimaa nimamainan aki = Respect Our Mother Earth: A Kid's Environmental Activity Booklet
General environmental education resource with some references to the Lake Superior watershed.
High School Counseling: Essential Services for Reservation Based Native Americans for Beginning Counselors
How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
For use with book by Joseph Bruchac and James which retells a traditional story designed to teach lessons about humility. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 3.
Indian Boarding Schools: Tools of Forced Assimilations, 1870 to the 1960s
Jingle Dancer: A RIF Guide for Community Coordinators
Lesson plan to accompany the book Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith and illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. Designed for use with Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Law, Literature, and Leslie Marmon Silko: Competing Narratives of Water
Learning from the Source: Comparing Reports of the Battle of Little Bighorn
Teaching resource involves students looking at primary documents and comparing newspaper coverage to eyewitness accounts.
Lesson Plan: Coastal Salish Canoes and Paddles
Recommended for Grades 4-8.
Lesson Plan:; S'Klallam Duck Hunting
Recommended for Grades 4-8.
Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism
Aimed at educators in Grades 9-12 and college-level instructors. For use with book of the same name.
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
Montana Skies: Blackfeet Astronomy
Includes traditional stories about the girl who married a star, the bunched stars and scarface and associated activities.
Additional Resource: Videos of stories read aloud.
Montana Skies: Crow Astronomy
Includes traditional stories about the sun and the moon, seven stars, and the twins and the hand star and associated activities for each.
Additional Resource: Videos of stories read aloud.
Native American Academic Performance: Does School Type Matter?
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.
Native Americans, the National Parks, and the Concept of Historical Inevitability
Native Life
Plains Indian Art of the Northern Plains: Traveling Trunk Curriculum
2nd revised edition. Uses archival photographs of material culture.
Plants and Connection to Place
Focuses on Yukon First Nations Traditional Knowledge.
Qaqamiigux "to hunt for food and collect plants; subsistence": Head Start Traditional Foods Preschool Curriculum
The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians: The Impact of the Atchison Topeka, and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930
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.
The Road to ANCSA: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Grade 6
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Documentary looks at the little-known story of Indigenous influences on and contributions to the evolution of contemporary rock and blues music. Artists profiled include Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Link Wray, Jesse Ed Davis, Stevie Salas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Randy Castillo, Jimi Hendrix, and Taboo.
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.
Telling Our Stories: Voices on the Land: A Performing Arts and Digital Storytelling Teaching Guide for Educators
Through Our Eyes: Expressing Aboriginal Culture Grade 9 NAC 10
Tohono O'Odham Constitution in Transition
Treaties: A Source Book
Tribal Leaders Speak: The State of Indian Education, 2010: Report of the Consultations with Tribal Leaders in Indian Country
Water-rights Settlements and Reclamation in Central Arizona as a Cross-cultural Experience: A Reexamination of Native Water Policy
Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations: Educator Guide for Grades 6-12
For use with the virtual exhibition Why Treaties Matter.