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.
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.
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Traditional story suitable for use with Grade 4-7 students. Extract from the book The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway.
Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.
Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.
Student lesson to accompany the Iroquois creation story.
Lists names of months in a wide variety of North American Indigenous languages.
Lists English translations of cultural groups' names for: the Milky Way, North Star, Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, Cassiopeia, Pleiades, Corona Borealis, Scorpius, and Aurora Borealis.
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
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.