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Bibliography of Sources on Dena’ina and Cook Inlet Anthropology through 2016, Final Version 4.3
Boarding School: Historical Trauma among Alaska’s Native People
Book Guide for How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable Retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater, Illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
Eleven Years of Implementing Traditional Yup'ik Oral Stories in the Elementary Classroom
English 130: Nonfiction Study: Raising Ourselves by Velma Wallis
Geologic Oral Traditions
Lesson involves the Aleutians oral traditions regarding tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for Grades 5-6.
Related Material: Legends animated video.
The Girl Who Lived with the Bears
Retelling of traditional Tlingit story. Lesson plan for Grades 4-6.
Related Material: Teacher resource including Tlingit language wall cards, retelling materials, transformation story elements, reader's theatre script for The Woman Who Married a Bear, and calendar icons.
How Raven Stole the Sun
Retelling of a traditional Tlingit story also known as Box of Daylight or How Raven Brought Light to the World. Lesson plan intended for Grades K-5.
Related Material: Teacher Resource.
Indigenous Decision Making Processes: What Can We Learn From Traditional Governance?
Journeying North: Reflections on Inuit Stories as Law
Module 3: Media, Arts, and Literature
Multiple Ways of Knowing: Life Stories, Oral History and Education
Never Alone = Kisima Ingitchuna: Parent Guide
The Reading Red Report 2007: A Content Analysis of General-audience Newspapers in Circulation Areas With High Percentages of Native Americans
Reading Resources for Southeast Alaska Tribal Children, Youth and Families
Speaking of Place: Contemporary Iñupiat Storytelling and Place-Making in the Time of Climate Change
Tale of an Alaska Whale
Retelling of traditional Tlingit story also known as Naatsilanéi, The Origin of the Killer Whale or Kéet Shagoon. Literature unit also teaches Tlingit vocabulary. Lesson plans intended for Grades K-5.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Teacher's Guide: Left Behind
Thrity Years Later: The Long-Term Effect of Baording Schools on Alaska Natives and Their Communities
Reports results of interviews conducted with 61 individuals who attended boarding schools or were in the urban boarding home program from the late 1940s through the early 1980s, as well as one individual whose parents were boarding school graduates.
Totem Poles: Heraldic Columns of the Northwest Coast
Traditional Foods in Native America: A Compendium of Traditional Foods Stories from American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. Part IV
Traditional Foods in Native America: A Compendium of Traditional Foods Stories from American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. Part III
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis: Novel Study: English 120
Yaakwx': Canoes
Focuses on Tlingit language and culture. Lesson plan is for Grades 2-3.
Related Material: Teacher Resources.