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Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism
Aimed at educators in Grades 9-12 and college-level instructors. For use with book of the same name.
Martinez Essay: Understanding Race
Native American Dolls
Lesson plan for elementary school students which looks at Native American dolls, how they are made and the cultures they represent.
Native American Indian Language & Culture in New York
Nehiwayak: Traditions of the Cree People
Noble Savage: Depictions of Native Americans throughout U.S. History
Unit involves students reading and evaluating images by Theodor DeBry, Simon van de Passes, Mathaeus Merian, D.F. Blanchard, George Catlin, John Gast, and Walter Ufer and contemporary photographs.
[North American Indians: A Collection of Bibliographies, Resource Lists, Questions and Answers, and Other Leaflets]
Northwest Coast Basketry
Northwest Coast: Educator Resource Guide
Lessons structured around items from the Seattle Museum of Art's collection.
Norval Morrisseau: Grandfather of the Woodland Style of Painting
Ojibway Nature Center Colouring Book
Each picture is introduced with a story which includes words in the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) language.
Perpetual Salish Contemporary Coast Salish Art from the Salish Weave Collection
Catalogue of exhibition which featured works by Maynard Johnny Jr., lessLIE , John Marston , Susan A. Point, and Dylan Thomas
Related material: Educational website.
Picturing the Past: Understanding Cultural Change and Continuity among Montana’s Indians through Historic Photographs
For use with Grades 7-12. Uses photographs from Chapter Eleven of Montana: Stories of the Land.
Plains Indian Art of the Northern Plains: Traveling Trunk Curriculum
2nd revised edition. Uses archival photographs of material culture.
Pushing the Line: Art without Reservations: Educational Resource
Quillwork
Includes pictures of numerous examples of how quills were used for decorative purposes and instructions for various techniques.
Raise a Flag: Works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015): Education Guide
Reconciliation through Revitalization
For use with the article The Big Land, the Kayak and Reconciliation! by Lisa Jane Smith found on page 24 of Remembering the Children.
Resilience: Teaching Guide
Developed to accompany the exhibition Resilience which featured Indigenous women artists' works displayed on billboards in inner cities and on highways.
Related material: Project Templates; curatorial essay The Resilient Body by Lee-Ann Martin and her curator's talk.
Robert Houle: Paris/Ojibwa.
Russel on Indians: Grade Level: 7-12
Lesson plan involves students learning about stereotypes and deciding whether paintings by Charles M. Russell reinforced those stereotypes.
S'abadeb-- The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists: Seattle Art Museum Educator Resource Guide, Grades 3-12.
Selected Bibliography of American Indian Studies Resources for Students in Grades K-6
Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation: Teachers' Resource Guide
For use with the book by Monique Gray Smith. Includes summary, essential questions, key concepts, vocabulary and learning activities for each chapter of book. Recommended for ages 9-13.
Standing Strong Task Force Report & Recommendations: Acknowledging the Past, Learning form the Present, Looking to the Future
Stories and Song: Anishinaabemowin Colouring Book
Designs by artists from the Dish with One Spoon Treaty territory feature animals from the region and are labelled in Ojibway and English.
Study Guide: The Living Stone
Susan Point: Spindle Whorl: Teacher's Study Guide
Although designed to accompany class visit to an exhibition of the Musqueam artist's work, can be used alone.
Tah'lum Indigenous Artist Collective Colouring Book: Volume 1: Michif and Lekwungen
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn About Community & Land Stewardship through the Art of Pitseolak Ashoona
Pitseolak Ashoona is a renowned Inuk artist from Nunavut.
Designed to complement the book Pitseolak Ashoona: Life and Work.
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn about Family and Intergenerational Knowledge through the Art of Annie Pootoogook
Includes artist biography, learning activities, explanation of her style and technique, image file, and link to book about the artist.
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn about Land & Indigenous Worldviews through the Art of Norval Morrisseau
Includes biography, discussion of artist's style and techniques learning activities, and image file. Designed to complement Norval Morrisseau: Life and Work by Carmen Robertson.
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn about Ways of Knowing through the Art of Iljuwas Bill Reid
Three thematic activities which explore knowledge transfer: learning through objects and tools, learning through making and learning through land and community.
Teacher's Resource Guide: North American Indians
Teaching with As Long as the Waters Flow by Allan Houser (Haozous)
Through Our Eyes: Expressing Aboriginal Culture Grade 9 NAC 10
Time to Colour: A Collection of Indigenous Colouring Pages
Designed by Indigenous artists.
Tradition, Design, Color: Plateau Indian Beaded Bags from the Fred Mitchell Collection: A Temporary Exhibit of the Montana Historical Society
Exhibition catalogue.
Educational materials for Grades 4 and 5: PowerPoint; Lesson Plan, PowerPoint Script; Worksheet.
Traditional Alaska Transition Skills: Iñupiaq Sewing Skills
Designed to give teens and young adults with disabilities an improved quality of life, connection to culture and increased work related skills.
Ts'úu isgyáan Sgahláang = Yellow and Red Cedar
Science unit also teaches the Haida language. Intended for Grades K-2.
Related Material: Teacher Resources.
Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos: Educational Resource
Unreserved: The Work of Louie Gong: Educational Resource
Visualizing a Mission: Artifacts and Imagery of the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1918
Wapos Bay: Raiders of the Lost Art: Study Guide
Weaving Math
Uses techniques involved in creating a Coast Salish blanket to teach concepts of slope and equations in Grade 10 Mathematics Curriculum.
Western Perspectives
Discusses representations of Indigenous peoples in early 20th century art.