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Gyáa'aang: Totem Poles
Lesson teaches the cultural significance of totems poles, how they're constructed and Haida vocabulary relating to them. Designed for Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
A Healthy Journey: Indigenous Teachings That Direct Culturally Responsive Curricula in Physical Education
Iñupiaq Culture and Wind Band: An Analysis of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Access to Music Education on Alaska's North Slope
Music Thesis (DME) -- Liberty University, 2023.
Inviting American Indian Arts Curriculum Into a School: The Short Life and Long Term Effects of an Arts Program
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.
Native American Music and Dance
Unit focuses on the Choctaw and Coushatta, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and Illinois cultures.
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.
Protecting Australian Indigenous Art: Ownership, Copyright and Marketing Issues for NSW Schools
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Rethinking Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches
Secret Path: Lesson Planning Templates
Includes links to series of brief lesson plans highlighting themes of awareness, acknowledgement, atonement, action and understanding and accompanying power points, student workbook and residential schools project.
Designed for use with the graphic novel and movie about Charlie Wenjack, a twelve-year-old who died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario in 1966.
For use with junior high school students.
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.
Ts'úu isgyáan Sgahláang = Yellow and Red Cedar
Science unit also teaches the Haida language. Intended for Grades K-2.
Related Material: Teacher Resources.