Agents of Change: How American Indians Helped Change the World in Only Seven Years
Unit lloks at how the Seven Years' War restructured the balance of power between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Designed for Grade 8 students.
Unit lloks at how the Seven Years' War restructured the balance of power between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Designed for Grade 8 students.
Short documentary about Charles "Checker" Tomkins, a Métis from Grouard, Alberta, and his service during his attachment to the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
Duration: 13:31.
Uses historical documents in conjuction with Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices. Developed for use in Advanced Placement English Literature or Language classroom, Grades 11 and 12.
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Students analyze Winter in the Blood by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,
Designed for Grade 3 Social Studies classes. Students learn about indigenous inventions and discoveries and how they helped European settlers.
Story and activities focus on the harvest of wild rice. English with some words translated into Ojibwe.
Discusses the American Indian Movement, the occupation of Alcatraz, Trail of Broken Treaties, the Nebraska Compaign, and Wounded Knee occupation. Designed specifically for Grade 8 students at Walker Jones Education in Washington, D.C.
Traditional Mohawk story, sometimes known as the Sky Woman story.
Traditional Mohawk story also known as the Sky Woman story.
Indigenous Alaskans discuss their experience of the aurora borealis. Duration: 25:25.
Mock letter from John A. Macdonald requesting students infiltrate the Red River Settlement to gather information. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies.
Website presents three sections: brief biographies of leaders, resources for educators, and a community section for people to express their ideas on leadership.
Annotated list compiled for use by teachers; current as of 2016.
Unit looks at how the authors of Tulsa: From Creek Town to Oil Capital (Angie Debo), Custer Died for Your Sins (Vine Deloria, Jr.), and Winter in the Blood (James Welch) repond to certain crises in Native American history. Designed for 11th grade Advanced Placement Language and Composition classes. Some focus on Oklahoma history.
Divided into five sections: contemporary publications, arts and crafts, traditional stories, history, and resources.
Wabanaki confederacy consists of the Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot.
Designed for Grade 1-3 art classes.
Related material: Student Handouts.
For use with the website of the same name.