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American Indian Boarding Schools: An Exploration of Global Ethnic & Cultural Cleansing: A Supplementary Curriculum Guide
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
Beyond the Image: Depicting Native Americans
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
A Collection of Native American Literature for Children K-8
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
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.
Geologic Oral Traditions
Lesson involves the Aleutians oral traditions regarding tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for Grades 5-6.
Related Material: Legends animated video.
Haudenosaunee Guide for Educators
High School Counseling: Essential Services for Reservation Based Native Americans for Beginning Counselors
High School Literature: Book 1
Lessons centred around Basket Bay History as told by Robert Zuboff; Raven Boat as told by Jennie White; and Kaakex'wti as told by Willie Marks.
High School Literature: Book 2
Lessons centred around First Russians as told by Charlie White; Kaats' as told by J.B. Fawcett; Raven, the Rock, and the King Salmon as told by James Klanott; and The Coming of the First White Man as told by George Betts.
High School Literature: Book 3
High School Literature: Book 4
Lessons centre on the Origin of the Killer Whale, Mosquito, and Tlingit Renaissance.
High School Literature: Book 5
Lessons center on Raven, Some Slices of Salmon: Entering the Salmon Stream, Raven and the Deer, and Tlingit Language and Oral Literature Research.
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.
Kespeadooksit (The Story Is Ended): A Bibliography of Native American Materials In Print: Handicapped Accessible Formats
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.
March Toward The Thunder: Discussion Guide
[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.
Mother Earth, Grandfather Sun
A "two-eyed" seeing activity for teaching about solstices and equinoxes.
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 Diabetes Wellness Program (NDWP)
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
The Raven Steals the Light
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.