The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Teaching Support Kit
For use with the coming-of-age young adult book by Sherman Alexie.
For use with the coming-of-age young adult book by Sherman Alexie.
Unit lloks at how the Seven Years' War restructured the balance of power between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Designed for Grade 8 students.
Traditional story about how coyote, with the help of other animals, stole fire from the Fire Protectors and gave it to humans so that they could stay warm during the winter months.
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.
Uses historical documents in conjuction with Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices. Developed for use in Advanced Placement English Literature or Language classroom, Grades 11 and 12.
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Students analyze Winter in the Blood by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,
Story and activities focus on the harvest of wild rice. English with some words translated into Ojibwe.
Traditional story suitable for use with Grade 4-7 students. Extract from the book The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway.
Discusses the American Indian Movement, the occupation of Alcatraz, Trail of Broken Treaties, the Nebraska Compaign, and Wounded Knee occupation. Designed specifically for Grade 8 students at Walker Jones Education in Washington, D.C.
Traditional Mohawk story, sometimes known as the Sky Woman story.
Traditional Mohawk story also known as the Sky Woman story.
Indigenous Alaskans discuss their experience of the aurora borealis. Duration: 25:25.
Student lesson to accompany the Iroquois creation story.
Unit looks at how the authors of Tulsa: From Creek Town to Oil Capital (Angie Debo), Custer Died for Your Sins (Vine Deloria, Jr.), and Winter in the Blood (James Welch) repond to certain crises in Native American history. Designed for 11th grade Advanced Placement Language and Composition classes. Some focus on Oklahoma history.
Book review of: Sovereignty for Survival by James Robert Allison III.
For use with videos On a Spring Day and Incident at Rock Roe. Collection of lesson plans for English Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Fine Arts, Mathematics, Spanish and Physical Education.
Related material: Student Handouts.