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.
Mourning Dove's The House of Little Men
Discusses Mourning Dove's legend story,The House of Little Men, which contains elements of assimilation and illustrates the writer's storytelling skills.
Muin: The Celestial Bear: A Hight Sky Story from the Mi'kmaw Nation
Story describes the movement of stars associated with the cycle of the seasons.
Muskwa: Fearless Defender of Natural Law
Myth, Metaphor, and Meaning in The Boy Who Could Not Understand: A Study of Seneca Auto-Criticism
Nametau Innu: Memory and Knowledge of Nitassinan
The Native American Experience: Coyote and the Buffalo Folklore Tale Retold by Mourning Dove
Includes brief discussion of Mourning Dove, text of the traditional story and student exercises.
The Native American Experience: The World on the Turtle's Back
Student lesson to accompany the Iroquois creation story.
Native American Indian Art
Native American Starlore
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
Native Drums
Native North Americans in Literature for Youth: A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12
[Native Storytelling Festival: The Real Story of the Quileute Wolves]
Never Alone = Kisima Ingitchuna: Parent Guide
Northern Dene Bibliography
Ojibwe Treaty Rights: Understanding and Impact
Designed to introduce younger readers to Ojibwe history, culture and exercising rights and resource management.
5th edition
On the Path of the Elders
On the Shoulders of a Giant: Traditional Story Study
Geared toward Grades 3 and 4. Humorous story of Inukpak, a giant who adopts an Inuit hunter because he thinks he is a child.
One with the Watershed: A Story-based Curriculum for Primary Environmental Education
Uses traditional stories about the Salmon people as a starting point to talk about environmental health and caretaking.
"A Salmon Homecoming Production."
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Ten: Introduction
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Oral Tradition is Alive and Well: Living Literature in the Siksika (Blackfoot) Community
Origin of Day and Night by Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt, illustrated by Lenny Lishchenko: Educator's Resource
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Our Mother Corn
Looks at the central role of corn in the cultures of the Hopi, Pawnee and Seneca peoples.
Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada
Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada
The Owl and the Lemming: An Eskimo Legend
The Owl and the Lemming: An Eskimo Legend: [Study Guide]
The Owl and the Raven: An Eskimo Legend
Parable of the Hummingbird
People of a Feather
Documentary about the unique relationship between the Inuit of Sanikiluaq, Nunavut and the Hudson Bay Common Eider and how changing sea ice and ocean currents caused by massive hydroelectric dams are threatening both the bird and the traditional way of life. Duration:
Related material: Educational Package by Global Environmental Justice Documentaries.
Pimooteewin: The Journey: Outreach Study Guide
Pivut
Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Approaches: Proceedings of Symposium 2007
Proceed with Caution: Using Native American Folktales in the Classroom
A Process of Thought and Being: Aboriginal Realism and Cultural Healing in Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road and Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen
Qalupalik
Qalupalik: Lesson Plan
Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Fine Arts. Accompanies animated film of same name.
The Raven and the Loon by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley; illustrated by Kim Smith: Educator's Resource
Intended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Raven Brings Light: A Play
Raven Helps the Indians
Children's story retells the Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-3.
Related Material: Lesson Plan.
Raven Makes Drum: Taken from Skokomish Stories as Told by Bruce Miller
Northwest Coast traditional story. For use with primary school students.
Related Material:
The Raven Steals the Light
Raven Tales: Traditional Quileute Stories of Bayak, the Trickster
Includes five stories: Raven and Bear; Raven and Fishduck; Raven and Mole; Raven and Skatefish; and Raven and Eagle.
Reading Resources for Southeast Alaska Tribal Children, Youth and Families
Reading Sheet: Coyote Places the Stars
Retelling of traditional story.