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Autumn Reading with Fun Activities: How Coyote Gave Fire to the People: A Native American Story
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.
Beaver Steals Fire
Behind the Scenes: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves
Book Reviews
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.
Danish Greenland: Its People and Products; Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo
The Development of the Trickster in Children's Narrative
Exploring the Night Sky Indigenous Inquiry Kit
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms
The Great Flood
Traditional story suitable for use with Grade 4-7 students. Extract from the book The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway.
How Cottontail Lost His Fingers
Children's book retells traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
How Daylight Came To Be
Children's book retells a Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church: Visual Culture, Missionization and Appropriation
Insects Off to War
Children's storybook retells the Northern Cheyenne traditional story about insects who go to war because they have nothing to do. Suitable for use with elementary students.
Joseph Bruchac's "Dark" Novels: Confronting the Terror of Adolescence
Landscape as Narrative, Narrative as Landscape
A Lifetime of Native American Architecture: Building Towards the Indigenous Millennium
[Native Achievers Series: Donald L. Fixico]
The Native American Experience: The World on the Turtle's Back
Student lesson to accompany the Iroquois creation story.
Native American Humor and Its Reflections in the Work of Sherman Alexie
The Navajo Tradition - Transition to the Bahá’í Faith
The Noble Savage and Ecological Indian: Cultural Dissonance and Representations of Native Americans in Literature
Preserving Tradition and Understanding the Past: Papers From the Conference on Iroquois Research, 2001-2005
Pulling Down the Clouds: The O'odham Intellectual Tradition During the "Time of Famine"
Raven Helps the Indians
Children's story retells the Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-3.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.
Raven Imagery in Northwest Coast Indian Art
Respect, Responsibility, and Renewal: The Foundations of Anishinaabe Treaty Making with the United States and Canada
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians, Dutch, and English on Seventeenth-Century Long Island Sound
Sherman Alexie's Reservation: Relocating the Center of Indian Identity
Skunk
Children's book retells the Muckleshoot traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-3.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.
Tales Of Coyote and Other Legends
Children's book retells five traditional stories. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Teacher Resource Guide: English 10 and 11 First Peoples
Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations
Truth versus Twilight
Turquoise in the Life of American Indians
Unearthing the Chumash Presence in The Sharpest Sight
The Walam Olum: An Indigenous Apocrypha and Its Readers
Why Bluejay Hops
Children's book retells the Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-5.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.