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Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians. First Series. Indian Tales and Legends (Vol.1)
The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship
Authored Animals Creature Tropes in Native American Fiction
Book Reviews
Can a Myth Be Astronomically Dated?
Cetaceousness and Global Warming Among the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska
Chipmunk Meets Old Witch (At-At-A'Tia)
Children's book retells a traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-2.
Related material: Lesson Plan.
A Collection of Curricula for the STARLAB Native American Mythology Cylinder. Including Stories of the Early Americans by Gary D. Kratzer; Background Information on the Navajo by Gloria D. Rall; More Native American Star Legends by Doris Forror
Although designed for use with the STARLAB cylinder, contains script which can be adapted for use without it.
Coyote in Love: The Story of Crater Lake: Illustrated & Retold by Mindy Dwyer: Teacher Resource
Story about how Coyote's love for a star resulted in the formation of a lake in Oregon.
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
A Digital Bundle : Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online
Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute
An Ethnozooarchaeological Study of Land Otters and People at Kit'N'Kaboodle (49-DIX-46), Dall Island, Alaska
Exploring the Night Sky Indigenous Inquiry Kit
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim; River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1929-1930
Forty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926
Genetic Crossing: Imagining Tribal Identity and Nation in Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus
The Geographical Names Used by the Indians of the Pacific Coast
Geologic Oral Traditions
Lesson involves the Aleutians oral traditions regarding tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for Grades 5-6.
Related Material: Legends animated video.
Gichi-amikozow
Children's book retells a traditional story about how the beaver got his flat tail; In Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Gijigijigaaneshiinh
Children's book retells a traditional story about the chickadee; in Ojibwe and English.
Related Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
The Haida Raven: A Zoological and Symbolic Interpretation
History & Culture eBook
How Cottontail Lost His Fingers
Children's book retells traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
How Coyote Created the Sun
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
How Coyote Made the Stars
Retelling of a traditional story.
How Fisher Went to the Skyland: The Origin of the Big Dipper An Ojibwe Story from the Great Lakes Region
Retelling of a traditional story.
Identity, Hózhó, Change, and Land: Navajo Environmental Perspectives
Indian Notes [Vol. 6, no. 1, January, 1929]
Indigenous Storytelling with Elder Hazel
Interpreting Pawnee Star Lore: Science or Myth?
Inuit Myth in the Film "Brother Bear"
Inuit Symbolism of the Bearded Seal
Iroquoian Cosmology
"Reprint of a work which was issued in two pts. in the 21st (1899-1900) and 43d (1925-1926) Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology."
Includes Onondaga, Seneca and Mohawk version.
Lakota Culture
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.
Landscape as Narrative, Narrative as Landscape
Landscape, Story, and Time as Elements of Reality in Silko's 'Yellow Women'
A Lifetime of Native American Architecture: Building Towards the Indigenous Millennium
A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, With A Linguistics, Historic and Ethnographic Introduction, Volume 1
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 Indian Art
Native American Oral History and Cultural Interpretation in Rocky Mountain National Park
Native American Starlore
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.