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Arizona Supreme Court designates Reservations as Permanent Homelands and Adopts a Balancing Approach to Quantifying Reserved Rights
The Building of a Canoe
Brief text accompanied by archival photographs. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
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.
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.
Creating a Sacred Place to Support Young American Indian and Other Learners in Grades K-3 [vol. 1 and 2]
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.
[Cultural Context of Educational Evaluation: A Native American Perspective: Workshop Proceedings]
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.
Dividing Alaska: Native Claims, Statehood and Wilderness Preservation
The Earliest Americans: Reader
Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide; Timeline Cards; Online Resources
Fighting for Our Lives: #NoDAPL in Historical Context
From Clan to Ḵwaan to Corporation: The Continuing Complex Evolution of Tlingit Political Organization
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.
The Great Winter Dance
Primarily the story Lake Tribe's Song of Today. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Indigenous Peoples and Governance Structures: A Comparative Analysis of Land and Resource Management Rights
The Kwakwaka'wakw: A Study of a North Pacific Coast People and the Potlatch
Law, Literature, and Leslie Marmon Silko: Competing Narratives of Water
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
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 Life
Plants and Connection to Place
Focuses on Yukon First Nations Traditional Knowledge.
Preschool Immersion Education for Indigenous Languages: A Survey of Resources
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.
Roots and Branches: A Resource of Native American
Literature—Themes, Lessons, and Bibliographies. Dorothea M. Susag. Foreword by Joseph Bruchac
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.
The Sound of the Drum
Storybook for use with primary school students.
Teacher's Guide: In the Light of Reverence
For use with documentary of the same title which explores clashes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people over three sacred sites and the use of land for recreational and commercial enterprises. They are: the Lakota and Devil's Tower; the Hopi and the Colorado Plateau; and the Wintu and Mt. Shasta.
Recommended for Grade Seven to adult audiences.
Telling Our Stories: Voices on the Land: A Performing Arts and Digital Storytelling Teaching Guide for Educators
Theoretical Perspectives, Research Finding, and Classroom Implications of the Learning Styles of American Indian and Alaska Native Students
The Twana Culture and the Drum
Storybook suitable for use with primary school students.
Twana is the collective name for a group of nine Coast Salish peoples.
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.