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Updated Grand Ronde Rethinking Thanksgiving Activity Guide

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Native Youth Wellness Food Sovereignty Project 2024

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Native Youth Wellness Food Sovereignty Project 2024

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THIS IS KALAPUYAN LAND

" It was the museum's cornerstone display: a long-term exhibit on the history of the Indigenous Kalapuya, the original inhabitants of large swaths of land in Oregon's Willamette Valley. For more than 15 years, "This Kalapuya Land," at the Washington County Museum in Portland, presented a distorted narrative that was criticized for trafficking in stereotype, sugarcoating settler-colonialism, and treating Native life as past. "It wasn't made for people in the tribe but for their white audience, for people obsessed with pioneer culture," Steph Littlebird Fogel (Grande Ronde)

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Steph Littlebird is an Indigenous artist-curator, writer and illustrator.

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Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos) — ELIZABETH LEACH GALLERY

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Launched in 1981, Elizabeth Leach Gallery has focused on presenting prominent Northwest and internationally established artists working in a wide variety of contemporary media, bolstering a dynamic dialogue between the local community and the global art world.

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When Pat Courtney Gold was growing up on the Warm Springs Reservation in the mid-Columbia River area of central Oregon, her family sometimes visited the Maryhill Museum in Goldendale, Washington. Her mother would point out the Wasco baskets and say with pride, "Our ancestors made these."

"They were the ones with those beautiful geometric designs," Gold told NEA interviewer Mary Eckstein. "She was always so proud when she pointed these out. I remember how beautiful those baskets were because no one in our immediate family had made those baskets. It was a very impressive memory."

Gold was educated in a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where her Native heritage was downplayed. After earning a degree from Whitman College, she became a mathematician and computer specialist.

In 1991, with the encouragement of her sister, who had earned a degree in fine arts, Gold began studying the making of Wasco sally bags, twined bags for root digging and storage, through the Oregon Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. This launched her on a new career path dedicated to the preservation of her cultural heritage. "As I began focusing more on my weaving, I also became aware that the technical technique was only a small facet of what I was doing," she told Eckstein. "The other component was that I was dealing with a whole ancestral heritage. I felt as though the ancestors were waiting for somebody like me to come forward and that all this energy was being focused and funneled through me."

Gold's background in math came in handy, she told The Oregonian in a 2007 interview. "I did a lot of mathematical visualizing for my job," Gold said. "I'd visualize water flow moving over a spillway, for example. When I started weaving, I graphed images on paper and then visualized what they would look like on a basket."

Though she's a tradition bearer, Gold hasn't shied from adapting to the changes that began when her people were removed by treaty from their longtime homeland farther north on the Columbia River. She learned that basket weavers in the early nineteenth century traded for Hudson Bay blankets, which were primarily red and blue, and unraveled them to use the wool in their designs. A hundred years later, when many Native people harvested hops, hop twine turned up in their baskets.

"I created what I called a yuppie Indian couple," Gold said. "The figures maintained the same geometric form of the traditional images, but I put the male figure in a blue suit and tie and a fedora hat. The woman was a professional woman wearing a tight dress, heels, lipstick and jewelry. And I used colorful chenille fiber for the texture. I enjoy creating my own designs."

She also uses her art to make statements about current events and problems, such as weaving deformed sturgeon images, to highlight deformities in the Columbia River sturgeon caused by the federal Hanford nuclear plant. And she works with federal agencies to preserve the plants that weavers use for their baskets.

Gold became involved in weaving in part because she feared that the unique Wasco technique called full-turn twine would be lost. She teaches the craft to others and was instrumental in the mid-1990s in founding the Northwest Native American Basket Weavers Association, which had 585 members in 2014.

"In order for people to really understand and appreciate baskets, they have to know about the culture of the weaver," Gold told Eckstein. "The baskets reflect the culture."

Bibliography
Gold, Pat Courtney. "The Long Narrows: The Forgotten Geographic and Cultural Wonder." Oregon Historical Quarterly (Winter 2007).

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When Pat Courtney Gold was growing up on the Warm Springs Reservation in the mid-Columbia River area of central Oregon, her family sometimes visited the Maryhill Museum in Goldendale, Washington. Her mother would point out the Wasco baskets and say with pride, "Our ancestors made these."

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In its 17 years, " Oregon Art Beat" has traveled everywhere - from Salem to Pendleton, from Vancouver to Burns - to profile some of the many Native American artists creating work right here in Oregon.

We've seen contemporary painting, sculpture and basketry. We've heard genre-defying music. We've witnessed the power of storytelling through not only words but also photography, wood carving and fabric arts.

Here are just a few artists you should know about.

"If we think about that time that goes all the way back and with the tremendous amount of cultural loss and gap, as people reconnect to their cultural and they reconnect to their spirituality, as well, because the two are inseparable, and the art is a part of that reconnection."

Greg A. Robinson

Chinook carver-artist

"Growing up on the Crow reservation, being Crow, things tend to be separated, like, 'Oh, that's a native person's history, and I know about it but I don't really relate to it or it's happening to them.' And for me , I kind of like to break that down. We're all experiencing this history together, and that's very much your history, too, not just my history."

Wendy Red Star

Multimedia artist

"A painting is a stage for all of these little events. And these events create an experience of interaction that we have. It's not really a picture of something - it is something. And we interact with it and we walk away with an experience."

James Lavadour

Painter And printmaker

Rick Bartow

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"... I'm just an artist who thinks people and animals share the same bed, and if the bed isn't comfortable for them, it's not going to comfortable for us for very long."

Rick Bartow

Painter, printer And carver

Contemporary Artist Ka'ila Farrell-Smith

"Thinking about my ancestral lineage to this land, you feel it at this really deep level and sometimes it can be really sad knowing we don't have the same connection. But there's this need to build a new connection or a reconnection."

Ka'ila Farrell-Smith

Multimedia Artist

Ceramicist Lillian Pitt

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"It's my power that I know who I am, where I'm from, who my people were. We've been here a few thousand years and we've got something here to show for it."

Lillian Pitt

Sculptor

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Connecting Art And Culture: Native American Artists In Oregon

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In its 17 years, "Oregon Art Beat" has traveled all across the state to profile some of the many Native American artists creating work right here in Oregon. Here are just a few artists you should know about.

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Oregon Art Beat
Season 18 Episode 1812 | 29m 33s |

Art Beat profiles three artists who share personal stories of finding their true creative path. Meet Ka'ila Farrell-Smith, who brings ancient design from her Klamath-Modoc heritage to her contemporary work. Learn how singer/songwriter, Liz Vice, overcame a serious illness to find her voice as a soul, R&B and gospel artist. And see how photographer Jock Bradley's new project is close to the heart.

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Finding Your True Voice! Oregon Art Beat highlights three artists on their creative path.

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Across the PNW, Indigenous land & water protectors are fighting back against the threat of oil & gas exports through their lands. From Wet'suwet'en territory to the Klamath River, these battles to protect communities from the harm of the fossil fuel industry are connected. Speakers include Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath-Modoc Artist), Kanahus Manuel (Secwepemc and Ktunaxa), Brook Thompson (Yurok and Karuk), Dakota Case (Puyallup Water Warriors), and Thomas Joseph (Hoopa).

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Across the PNW, Indigenous land & water protectors are fighting back against the threat of oil & gas exports through their lands. From Wet'suwet'en territory to the Klamath River, these battles to protect communities from the harm of the fossil fuel industry are connected.

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Teaching Tolerance- Teaching Thanksgiving in a Responsible Way

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Teaching Tolerance- Teaching Thanksgiving in a Responsible Way

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School Thanksgiving activities often mean dressing children in "Indian" headdresses and paper feathers as they sing " My Country 'Tis of Thee" or " Mr. Turkey." Some teachers might even ask their students to draw themselves as Native Americans from the past, complete with feather-adorned headbands and buckskin clothing. These activities might seem friendly and fun, unless you are aware of how damaging this imagery is to perceptions of contemporary Native peoples. This imagery contributes to the indoctrination of American youth into a false narrative that relegates Indigenous peoples to the past and turns real human beings into costumes for a few days a year. It's not just bad pedagogy; it's socially irresponsible.

Native Americans have been speaking out and writing back against the colonialist narrative of Thanksgiving for as long as the American narrative has existed. More recently, comedian Jim Ruel (Ojibwe) includes Thanksgiving in his act ( starting at 1:40 in this clip), Dr. Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo) writes about children's books that "set the record straight," and Native American students speak out about what Thanksgiving means to them.

Doris Seale (Santee/Cree) and Beverly Slapin (Dakota/Cree/Abenaki) edited A Broken Flute in 2005, which includes a chapter that deconstructs the myths perpetuated about the first Thanksgiving. This chapter also includes critical reviews of many books on the market or readily available in libraries and classrooms. Providing ample evidence that many non-Native publishers, illustrators and writers are missing the mark in several critical ways, these books exemplify the ineffectiveness of good intentions, the perpetuation of misinformation and the exclusion of Native American voices and experiences.

Teaching about Thanksgiving in a socially responsible way means that educators accept the ethical obligation to provide students with accurate information and to reject traditions that sustain harmful stereotypes about Indigenous peoples. Thankfully, there are excellent online resources that can help educators interested in disrupting the hegemonic Thanksgiving story.

Challenging the dominant and inaccurate narrative about Thanksgiving, providing students with a more balanced perspective of this oft-romanticized holiday, and refusing to dress students in feathered headbands are socially responsible actions. They're actions that every teacher should undertake to benefit their students and the society their students will inherit.

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Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way

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Educators have an ethical obligation to teach accurately about Thanksgiving. Here are some online resources that can help.

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We Are Water Protectors - Carole Lindstrom

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Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book MedalA 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner“A wonderful and sweet book .…

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From the award-winning and bestselling author of We Are Water Protectors comes an empowering picture book about family history, self-expression, and reclaiming your identityOur ancestors say our hair is our memories,our source of strength and power,a celebration of our lives.Mom never had long hairshe was told it was too wild.

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Nation to Nation | Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations

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Nation to Nation | Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations

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Treaties-solemn agreements between sovereign nations-lie at the heart of the relationship between Indian Nations and the United States. Native Nations made treaties with one another long before Europeans came to the Western Hemisphere. The United States began making treaties with Native Peoples because they were independent nations. Often broken, sometimes coerced, treaties still define mutual obligations between the United States and Indian Nations. The treaties featured in Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, on loan from the National Archives and Records Administration, are representative of the approximately 374 that were ratified between the United States and Native Nations.

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Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Treaties-solemn agreements between sovereign nations-lie at the heart of the relationship between Indian Nations and the United States.

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About The Book

A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes.

In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstarter-funded pursuit to visit, engage, and photograph people from what were then 562 federally recognized Native American Tribal Nations. Over the next decade, she traveled six hundred thousand miles across fifty states-from Seminole country (now known as the Everglades) to Inuit territory (now known as the Bering Sea)-to meet, interview, and photograph hundreds of Indigenous people. The body of work Wilbur created serves to counteract the one-dimensional and archaic stereotypes of Native people in mainstream media and offers justice to the richness, diversity, and lived experiences of Indian Country.

The culmination of this decade-long art and storytelling endeavor, Project 562 is a peerless, sweeping, and moving love letter to Indigenous Americans, containing hundreds of stunning portraits and compelling personal narratives of contemporary Native people-all photographed in clothing, poses, and locations of their choosing. Their narratives touch on personal and cultural identity as well as issues of media representation, sovereignty, faith, family, the protection of sacred sites, subsistence living, traditional knowledge-keeping, land stewardship, language preservation, advocacy, education, the arts, and more.
A vital contribution from an incomparable artist, Project 562 inspires, educates, and truly changes the way we see Native America.

Pictured on Cover: Dr. Henrietta Mann, Cheyenne

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Introduction

Prior to contact with Europeans the area now recognized as Oregon was the homeland of diverse native peoples. The descendants of those people, and native people from throughout the United States continue to live and thrive here. The richness of these cultures enriches history and nourishes all Oregonians. Developing an understanding of the diverse lifeways of today's native people and the legacy of our nation's growth offers all people the opportunity to develop a shared future.

Historically, American Indian/Alaska Native Education is a rocky path. Many factors contribute to the Academic Achievement Gap that exists between American Indian/Alaska Native learners and their peers. Whether native students are dropping out, or stepping out, the result is the same, low employment rates, depressed economic development in Indian Country, separatism, and poverty. Our students need to leave high school with the knowledge and skills to succeed in careers, higher education, business, and life. The path is clear, we need teachers who are culturally competent to work with native students and impart to non-natives respect for the deep cultural roots of the US. It will take all of us working together at every level to ensure true equity in our schools.

In September 2017, ODE's Office of Accountability, Research, and Information Services prepared the American Indian/Alaska Native Students in Oregon: A Review of Key Indicators report, updated in March 2020, to further conversations about improving outcomes for Oregon's American Indian student population.

The native population is about 1.4% of the total population in Oregon. American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) and Hawaiian Native students are potentially in every classroom and every district. Oregon is a national leader in adopting a comprehensive plan developed by native education leaders. The AI/AN Education State Plan aligns to the strategic goals and key efforts of the Oregon Department of Education. The 2015 plan focuses on eleven (11) educational objectives with accompanying strategies and measureable outcomes.

The Oregon Department of Education promotes active tribal communication through the Indian Education Advisor to the Deputy Superintendent. Executive Order 96-30 was issued by the Governor of the State of Oregon in 1996, it established State Government-to-Government Relations with the nine (9) federally recognized Tribes in Oregon. The purpose of the formal relationship was to improve services and develop avenues for consultation. Under EO 96-30 the Government to Government Education Cluster was established. The Indian Education Advisor meets at least quarterly with the Government-to-Government Education Cluster to create and monitor the annual work plan; to exchange information on issues impacting tribes and schools; to review and establish policy positions with tribes; to receive questions and requests for data, share research and information; to maintain active communication with all aspects of the educational enterprise, participating entities include the Chief Education Office, the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, the Teachers Standards & Practices Commission, and the Oregon Student Access Commission.

Part C Title VI of the "Every Student Succeeds Act" (ESSA) of 2015 details the national expectations to provide a quality education for American Indian, Alaska and Hawaiian Native students. There are federal grant programs to 1) support the efforts of local educational agencies to meet the culturally related educational needs of native students so such students can meet academic standards; 2) ensure that students gain knowledge and understanding of Native communities, languages, tribal histories, traditions and cultures, and 3) to ensure that school staff who serve native students have the ability to provide culturally appropriate and effective instruction

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The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are delighted to present the Chinuk Wawa language app! The Chinuk Wawa language app offers language, practice games, and quizzes in everyday categories such as food, family members, colors, numbers, etc. It also offers a culture section that includes historical photos, basic Tribal history, and songs and stories in both Chinuk Wawa and English. We are excited to offer people everywhere a chance to learn Chinuk Wawa as well as learn a little bit about our Tribe.

Chinuk Wawa is a free application which is available for Apple iPhone and iPad devices, as well as most Android devices.

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Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.

The author of ten books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years, several plays and children's books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, her many honors include the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Harjo delivered the 2021 Windham-Campbell Lecture at Yale, part of the virtual Windham-Campbell Prize Festival that year. That lecture was the basis for Catching the Light, published in 2022 by Yale University Press in the Why I Write series.

As a musician and performer, Harjo has produced seven award-winning music albums including her newest, I Pray for My Enemies. She served as Executive Editor of the anthology When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through - A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and the editor of Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, the companion anthology to her signature Poet Laureate project.

She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is the first Artist-in-Residence for Tulsa's Bob Dylan Center. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In REMEMBER, acclaimed Indigenous creators Joy Harjo and Michaela Goade invite young readers to pause and reflect on family, nature, their heritage, and the world around them.

This timeless poem paired with magnificent paintings makes for a picture book that is a true celebration of life and our human role within it.

Praise for REMEMBER

"With Caldecott Medalist Goade as illustrator, recent U.S. Poet Laureate Harjo's acclaimed poem becomes a beauty to behold...A rich and reverential tribute to life, family, and poetry."

- Booklist, starred review

"Evoking the cyclical feeling of a slow breath in and out, it's a smartly constructed, reflective picture book based in connection and noticing."

- Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The teeming images thrillingly catch young viewers up as they swirl, circles emphasizing the cyclical nature of life. 'Remember,' closes the text, and children will."

- The Horn Book, starred review

"A contemplative, visually dazzling masterpiece that will resonate even more deeply each time it is read."

- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

With Caldecott Medalist Goade as illustrator, recent U.S. Poet Laureate Harjo's acclaimed poem becomes a beauty to behold.
-Booklist

Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.

In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light traces every occasion of a lifetime; it offers poems on birth, death, love, and resistance; on motherhood and on losing a parent; on fresh beginnings amidst legacies of displacement. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from sunrise and horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth.

Praise for Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

"Joy Harjo's work is both very old and very new. She tells stories in verse, sometimes highly compressed, sometimes long and winding, which ritually invoke and link her to roots and sources. She seeks continuity between what she calls her 'past and future ancestors,' and views each poem as a ceremonial object with the potential to make change. She has found a singing language for grief and meaningfully transforms the American story. Her work is a long-lasting contribution to our literature."

-Edward Hirsch

"Joy's poetry voice is indeed ancient. She has always been a visionary. A healer. A guide. . . . The poems in this collection are a song cycle, a woman warrior's journey in this era, reaching backward and forward and waking in the present moment. A chant for survival."

-Sandra Cisneros

"Harjo, though very much a poet of America, extracts from her own personal and cultural touchstones a more galactal understanding of the world, and her poems become richer for it. Here, she says, is a living, breathing earth to which we're all connected. Here is unbridled potential for the poetic-in everything, even in ourselves."

-Maya Phillips, The New Yorker

"These poems taken from half a century of Harjo's work show the powerful words and moving themes that have made her an unforgettable voice in the world of poetry."

- Book Riot

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Portraying the First Thanksgiving as a friendly harvest feast when Native Americans and Pilgrims came together in friendship distorts the true history of that era. These 15 resources will help educators include Indigenous voices in their history lessons.

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Indigenous Children's Survivance in Public Schools

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Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Colonialism in the Classroom

1. Pilgrims and Invented Indians

2. Halloween Costumes and Native Identity

3. Native Sheroes and Complex Personhood

Part II: Colonialism in the Culture of Schools

4. Little Anthropologists

5. Native Heritage Month

6. Education on the Border of Sovereignty

Conclusion: Interventions for Urban Indigenous Education

Index

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Indigenous Children's Survivance in Public Schools

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"Not only are the lessons presented in this text practical and relevant to today's teacher, but the text offers additional teacher resources that truly challenge the dominant narrative surrounding Lewis and Clark. The text supports teachers in understanding the multiple perspectives and vast history surrounding the Doctrine of Discovery. In addition, the resources offer voices other than those of Lewis, Clark, Jefferson, and other prominent white males, instead offering counternarratives. Inherently, the lesson plans and resources push students to dive deeper into the content at hand. Thus, they become active, engaged participants in their learning, leading to their evaluation and challenging of the dominant curriculum."

- Teachers College Record

"The authors' efforts to empower students, as both scholars and citizens, to learn and then reconceptualize dominant narratives of exploration and discovery will undoubtedly make the book an invaluable and controversial contribution to contemporary battles over history education."

- Teaching History: A Journal of Methods

"This amazing book, and the thoughtful lesson plans included therein, should be required teaching materials in all K-12 classrooms in the United States. The unique and invaluable information that the authors provide will expose students to the federal law that still restricts Native Nations today and will require students to think more critically about this chapter of American history and what they have previously been taught on the subject. This book is revisionist history in the best sense of that tradition because it teaches students a more complete, more true, and more complex history about the Lewis and Clark expedition."
- Robert J. Miller, professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

"The story of the 'Corps of Discovery' remains one of the most persistent yet misunderstood historical narratives within K-12 classrooms. Teaching Critically about Lewis and Clark offers rare support for teachers, teacher educators, and schools 'to challenge these issues, to defend tribal sovereignty, and to stand in solidarity with Indigenous peoples' (p. 10). The book's resources and strategies advance historical rigor, contemporary relevance, critical thinking about multiple perspectives, inquiry-based experiences, and alignment with state level initiatives like Montana's Indian Education for All and Washington's Since Time Immemorial, all while revitalizing Indigenous histories that have been marginalized or suppressed for 200+ years."
- Christine Rogers Stanton, associate professor of K-12 social studies education, Montana State University

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"Not only are the lessons presented in this text practical and relevant to today's teacher, but the text offers additional teacher resources that truly challenge the dominant narrative surrounding Lewis and Clark. The text supports teachers in understanding the multiple perspectives and vast history surrounding the Doctrine of Discovery.

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Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch: Lessons from Mother Nature's Classroom

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Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch: Lessons from Mother Nature's Classroom

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Michelle M. Jacob is an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and is currently Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon, where she also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and Affiliated Faculty in the Environmental Studies Program. Michelle engages in scholarly and activist work that seeks to understand and work toward a holistic sense of health and well-being within Indigenous communities and among allies who wish to engage decolonization. Michelle's first two books, Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing, and, Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, were published by the University of Arizona Press. Dr. Jacob's third book, On Indian Ground: A Return to Indigenous Knowledge-Generating Hope, Leadership and Sovereignty through Education in the Northwest, was co-edited with Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, and published by Information Age Publishing. Michelle has numerous articles published in social science, education, and health science research journals, and grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. Her research areas of interest include: Indigenous methodologies, spirituality, health, education, Native feminisms, and decolonization. Michelle is grateful to all her family and friends for their love and support including her many blessed Aunties who inspired her book, The Auntie Way. Michelle's book, Huckleberries and Coyotes, celebrates the generous teachers (human and more than human) who surround us. Michelle's book, Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch, encourages us to deeply reflect upon our relationships with time and place. Dr. Jacob's latest book, Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories, is the 2nd edition, and is a cultural treasure of Yakama peoples, featuring the traditional stories Elders requested be shared in the book.

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Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch: Lessons from Mother Nature's Classroom

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Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch: Lessons from Mother Nature's Classroom celebrates the power and wisdom of lessons we can learn when we reevaluate our relationship to place and time. Stories take place in a diversity of settings, including the author's Yakama homelands as well as Indigenous lands on Tur...

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Birthday Gifts: Honoring People and Places We Love

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Birthday Gifts: Honoring People and Places We Love

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Michelle M. Jacob is an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and is currently Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon, where she also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and Affiliated Faculty in the Environmental Studies Program. Michelle engages in scholarly and activist work that seeks to understand and work toward a holistic sense of health and well-being within Indigenous communities and among allies who wish to engage decolonization. Michelle's first two books, Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing, and, Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, were published by the University of Arizona Press. Dr. Jacob's third book, On Indian Ground: A Return to Indigenous Knowledge-Generating Hope, Leadership and Sovereignty through Education in the Northwest, was co-edited with Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, and published by Information Age Publishing. Michelle has numerous articles published in social science, education, and health science research journals, and grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. Her research areas of interest include: Indigenous methodologies, spirituality, health, education, Native feminisms, and decolonization. Michelle is grateful to all her family and friends for their love and support including her many blessed Aunties who inspired her book, The Auntie Way. Michelle's book, Huckleberries and Coyotes, celebrates the generous teachers (human and more than human) who surround us. Michelle's book, Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch, encourages us to deeply reflect upon our relationships with time and place. Dr. Jacob's latest book, Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories, is the 2nd edition, and is a cultural treasure of Yakama peoples, featuring the traditional stories Elders requested be shared in the book.

Follow Michelle's blog at: www.auntieway.com

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Birthday Gifts: Honoring People and Places We Love

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Birthday Gifts: Honoring People and Places We Love [Jacob, Michelle M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Birthday Gifts: Honoring People and Places We Love

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Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories

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Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories

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Michelle M. Jacob is an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and is currently Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon, where she also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and Affiliated Faculty in the Environmental Studies Program. Michelle engages in scholarly and activist work that seeks to understand and work toward a holistic sense of health and well-being within Indigenous communities and among allies who wish to engage decolonization. Michelle's first two books, Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing, and, Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, were published by the University of Arizona Press. Dr. Jacob's third book, On Indian Ground: A Return to Indigenous Knowledge-Generating Hope, Leadership and Sovereignty through Education in the Northwest, was co-edited with Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, and published by Information Age Publishing. Michelle has numerous articles published in social science, education, and health science research journals, and grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. Her research areas of interest include: Indigenous methodologies, spirituality, health, education, Native feminisms, and decolonization. Michelle is grateful to all her family and friends for their love and support including her many blessed Aunties who inspired her book, The Auntie Way. Michelle's book, Huckleberries and Coyotes, celebrates the generous teachers (human and more than human) who surround us. Michelle's book, Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch, encourages us to deeply reflect upon our relationships with time and place. Dr. Jacob's latest book, Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories, is the 2nd edition, and is a cultural treasure of Yakama peoples, featuring the traditional stories Elders requested be shared in the book.

Follow Michelle's blog at: www.auntieway.com

Sign up for Michelle's email list at: www.anahuymentoring.com

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Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories

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Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories [Beavert, Virginia R., Jacob, Michelle M., Jansen, Joana W.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories

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Huckleberries and Coyotes: Lessons from Our More than Human Relations

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Huckleberries and Coyotes: Lessons from Our More than Human Relations

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Michelle M. Jacob is an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and is currently Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon, where she also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and Affiliated Faculty in the Environmental Studies Program. Michelle engages in scholarly and activist work that seeks to understand and work toward a holistic sense of health and well-being within Indigenous communities and among allies who wish to engage decolonization. Michelle's first two books, Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing, and, Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, were published by the University of Arizona Press. Dr. Jacob's third book, On Indian Ground: A Return to Indigenous Knowledge-Generating Hope, Leadership and Sovereignty through Education in the Northwest, was co-edited with Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, and published by Information Age Publishing. Michelle has numerous articles published in social science, education, and health science research journals, and grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. Her research areas of interest include: Indigenous methodologies, spirituality, health, education, Native feminisms, and decolonization. Michelle is grateful to all her family and friends for their love and support including her many blessed Aunties who inspired her book, The Auntie Way. Michelle's book, Huckleberries and Coyotes, celebrates the generous teachers (human and more than human) who surround us. Michelle's book, Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch, encourages us to deeply reflect upon our relationships with time and place. Dr. Jacob's latest book, Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories, is the 2nd edition, and is a cultural treasure of Yakama peoples, featuring the traditional stories Elders requested be shared in the book.

Follow Michelle's blog at: www.auntieway.com

Sign up for Michelle's email list at: www.anahuymentoring.com

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Huckleberries and Coyotes: Lessons from Our More than Human Relations

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Huckleberries and Coyotes: Lessons from Our More than Human Relations is a collection of stories by Yakama scholar Michelle M. Jacob. The author builds upon her previous studies of cultural revitalization and the power of Indigenous teachings by reflecting on what huckleberries, coyotes, and othe...

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The Auntie Way: Stories Celebrating Kindness, Fierceness, and Creativity

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The Auntie Way: Stories Celebrating Kindness, Fierceness, and Creativity

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Michelle M. Jacob is an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and is currently Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon, where she also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and Affiliated Faculty in the Environmental Studies Program. Michelle engages in scholarly and activist work that seeks to understand and work toward a holistic sense of health and well-being within Indigenous communities and among allies who wish to engage decolonization. Michelle's first two books, Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing, and, Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, were published by the University of Arizona Press. Dr. Jacob's third book, On Indian Ground: A Return to Indigenous Knowledge-Generating Hope, Leadership and Sovereignty through Education in the Northwest, was co-edited with Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, and published by Information Age Publishing. Michelle has numerous articles published in social science, education, and health science research journals, and grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Science Foundation. Her research areas of interest include: Indigenous methodologies, spirituality, health, education, Native feminisms, and decolonization. Michelle is grateful to all her family and friends for their love and support including her many blessed Aunties who inspired her book, The Auntie Way. Michelle's book, Huckleberries and Coyotes, celebrates the generous teachers (human and more than human) who surround us. Michelle's book, Fox Doesn't Wear a Watch, encourages us to deeply reflect upon our relationships with time and place. Dr. Jacob's latest book, Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories, is the 2nd edition, and is a cultural treasure of Yakama peoples, featuring the traditional stories Elders requested be shared in the book.

Follow Michelle's blog at: www.auntieway.com

Sign up for Michelle's email list at: www.anahuymentoring.com

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The Auntie Way: Stories Celebrating Kindness, Fierceness, and Creativity

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The Auntie Way celebrates the lessons and love aunts teach us. Twelve stories set across diverse places, including the Yakama Reservation, New York City, and the halls of academia, describe the ways in which "Aunties," whether blood related or chosen, help us to step into our better selves, throu...

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Skookum Tillicum: The Strong People Of Siletz

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Skookum Tillicum: The Strong People Of Siletz

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Skookum Tillicum: The Strong People Of Siletz

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THE PEOPLE ARE DANCING AGAIN: THE SILETZ TRIBE OF WESTERN OREGON 

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THE PEOPLE ARE DANCING AGAIN: THE SILETZ TRIBE OF WESTERN OREGON 

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THE PEOPLE ARE DANCING AGAIN: THE SILETZ TRIBE OF WESTERN OREGON by Charles Wilkinson

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Standing Strong The Tribal Nations of Western Oregon

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Standing Strong The Tribal Nations of Western Oregon

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Standing Strong The Tribal Nations of Western Oregon

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Alfred "Bud" Lane III, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

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Alfred "Bud" Lane III, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

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Alfred "Bud" Lane III, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

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Jesse Beers, Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians

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Jesse Beers, Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians

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Jesse Beers, Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians

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The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians: Canoes

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The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians: Canoes

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The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians: Canoes

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Coquille Indian Tribe First Foods: Clams

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Coquille Indian Tribe First Foods: Clams

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Coquille Indian Tribe First Foods: Clams

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Honoring Our Homelands: The Santiam River

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Honoring Our Homelands: The Santiam River

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Honoring Our Homelands: The Santiam River

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Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians: Connecting with the Land

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Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians: Connecting with the Land

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Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians: Connecting with the Land

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Warm Springs |  Mill Creek Restoration Project

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Warm Springs |  Mill Creek Restoration Project

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Warm Springs |  Mill Creek Restoration Project

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Native Americans know how place affects health | Place Matters Oregon 

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Native Americans know how place affects health | Place Matters Oregon 

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Native Americans know how place affects health | Place Matters Oregon | OHA

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Treaties Between The U.S. Government And Native Nations

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Treaties Between The U.S. Government And Native Nations

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Treaties Between The U.S. Government And Native Nations | Inter(Nation)al | NPR

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Originally published in 1991, The First Oregonians has been revised and expanded for a new generation of Oregonians. It provides a comprehensive view of Oregon's native peoples from the past to the present.

In this remarkable volume, Oregon Indians tell their own stories-more than half of the chapters are written by members of Oregon's nine federally recognized tribes. Using oral histories and personal recollections, these chapters vividly depict not only a history of decimation and decline, but also a contemporary view of cultural revitalization, renewal, and continuity. The First Oregonians also includes essays by prominent Northwest scholars exploring geography, federal-Indian relations, language, and art.

No other book offers as wide a variety of views and stories about the historical and contemporary experience of Oregon Indians. The First Oregonians is the definitive volume for anyone interested in the fascinating story of Oregon's first peoples.
Contributors: C. Melvin Aikens, Stephen Dow Beckham, Marilyn Couture, Douglas Deur, Yvonne Hajda, Eugene Hunn, Dell Hymes, Jennifer Karson, Robert Kentta, Bill Mercer, Brent Merrill, Wil Phinney, Michael Rondeau, Howard P. Roy, Minerva T. Soucie, Kathryn Anne Toepel, George B. Wasson, Jr., and Elizabeth Woody. About the Publisher
Oregon Council for the Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities that offers Oregonians the opportunity to reflect upon and discuss the critical issues and ideas of our time.

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Originally published in 1991, The First Oregonians has been revised and expanded for a new generation of Oregonians. It provides a comprehensive view of Oregon's native peoples from the past to the present. In this remarkable volume, Oregon Indians tell their own stories-more than half of the chapters are written by members of Oregon's nine federally recognized tribes.

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The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs on their sacred connection to the Deschutes River

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The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs on their sacred connection to the Deschutes River

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The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs on their sacred connection to the Deschutes River

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Broken Treaties (Full documentary) | Oregon Experience | OPB

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Common Ground » Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

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Video 2  We’re Still Here, The Termination & Restoration of the Klamath Tribes

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Video 1  Boarding Schools, Truth, Reckoning & Healing

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Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness

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Native Voices Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness

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American Indian's in Children's Literature

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American Indian's in Children's Literature

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American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL)

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Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books

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Please enjoy these posts from my The Auntie Way Blog. Thanks for reading!

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Native Wellness Institute Videos and Resources

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Native Wellness Institute Videos and Resources

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Indian Reading Series: Stories of the Northwest

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Indian Reading Series: Stories of the Northwest

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n 1972, the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory received funding from the National Institute of Education for the development of a community-based reading and language arts program especially for Indian children. Twelve Northwest Indian reservations actively participated in the program from its beginning. For the next 11 years, the NWREL Indian Reading & Language Development Program produced 140 culturally relevant stories written by local Indian authors and illustrated by Indian artists.

The result of this work was a unique supplementary reading and language development program for Indian and non-Indian children. The materials were authenticated by the participating tribes and field tested with over 1200 Indian and non-Indian children in 93 classrooms throughout the Northwest.

The teacher's manual reflects the thinking of more than 80 teachers who were involved in the trial stages of the materials and who provided invaluable ideas which were incorporated into the manual. The manual was written to provide suggestions for teachers using The Indian Reading Series, to enable students to receive maximum benefits from the materials.

It is important to note that these materials were not designed to be a reading program. They are supplemental to the formal reading programs adopted by schools. Nor are the materials intended to be used to teach Indian "culture," even though they come from and are based in that culture.

A Policy Board representing the participating Indian communities directed program activities and assured meaningful community input and control of content authenticity. More than 250 reservation-based planners, writers and artists participated in needs identification and materials development.

The readers are posted here on the NWREL Web site as a historical record. Booklets and other materials may be downloaded and used free of charge for educational purposes.

Note: Indian Reading Series electronic files are copies of the original print publications; those print publications are no longer available, despite text in the booklets that indicate contact information for such. This Web site with the Indian Reading Series files is the only current source for the booklets and their related materials.

Books for Grade Levels I through VI as well as teacher's manuals and lesson plans are now online:

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Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest

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The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest is a collection of authentic material cooperatively developed by Indian People from twelve reservations.

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Native Knowledge 360° | Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

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Educational resources, lesson plans, teacher training, and strategies to support positive change! Native Knowledge 360° is a national initiative to inspire and promote improved teaching and learning about Native America. #NK360

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Indigenous People's Day Articles and Resources

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Indigenous People's Day Articles and Resources

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Here are lessons, books, and films for teaching the truth about Columbus and Indigenous Peoples' history.

Learn more at the Abolish Columbus Day campaign page.

Many of these resources are featured in the Abolish Columbus Day packet which is available to download. The 14-page packet includes articles, sample resolutions, and a poster. Read more at www.zinnedproject.org/abolish.

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Indigenous Peoples' Day Resources - Zinn Education Project

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Here are lessons, books, and films for teaching the truth about Columbus and Indigenous Peoples' history. Learn more at the Abolish Columbus Day campaign

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Teaching Humanity - Indigenous/Native American

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Tribal History/Shared History Lesson Links