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All Grades
All Grades
IAIA resources
IAIA resources
Downloadable educational resources including:
Make an Indigenous comic
Coloring pages
Take a Totem Pole tour
Take a Totem Pole tour
Click HERE to view Sitka National Park's Virtual tour.
An audio-described tour of the beautiful Totem trail.
Multicultural Native American Art and Craft ideas
Multicultural Native American Art and Craft ideas
Arts and crafts with a story behind them.
Play Native American Games
Play Native American Games
Click HERE for Milwaukee Public Museum resources.
Click HERE for a teacher resource.
Pow Wow Radio
Pow Wow Radio
Listen to music and here about affairs concerning the indigenous community
Animals and birds and what they mean to the Indigenous people
Animals and birds and what they mean to the Indigenous people
Click HERE to view the meanings of animals.
Click HERE for information on animals on Totem poles
Click HERE to explore the meanings and legends of birds.
Smithsonian National Museum of the Native Indian resources.
Smithsonian National Museum of the Native Indian resources.
The Native Indian view of Thanksgiving as shown by the Smithsonian.
Questions revealed like how many native Indians lived in America before 1492.
Native Knowledge.
Videos.
Learn about Bison
Learn about Bison
From NetNebraska - **Winner of a 2019 Heartland Emmy Award**
Learn about the Teepee
Learn about the Teepee
Watch this video and then try to build your own. You could use twigs or BBQ skewers.
Click HERE to see how HGTV can help you build one in your backyard.
November is National American Indian Heritage Month The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans.
Elementary
Elementary
PBS - series Molly of Denali - Grandpa's drum video
PBS - series Molly of Denali - Grandpa's drum video
Explore Alaska Native history and culture using story "Grandpa's Drum" in this episode from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI™. An old photograph sends Molly and friend Tooey on a mission to find out why Grandpa Nat no longer sings or plays his drum. As they uncover Grandpa's past, using visual clues and the internet, they understand more about their own heritage and the importance of cultural identity. As students explore the importance of diverse cultures and honoring traditions, as well as Alaska Native lives then and now, they also learn about finding and using informational texts.
Other episodes available too.
Click HERE for a wonderful after viewing discussion.
Make a Dreamcatcher
Make a Dreamcatcher
Click HERE to learn how to make one. Younger children may need some help.
Click HERE for a video of a grandmother telling her grandson about the history of the dreamcatcher
Tweens/Teens
Tweens/Teens
Invasion of America
Invasion of America
This is s a time-lapse map that allows viewers to explore the growth of the United States in terms of the seizure of Native lands—valuable context for the study of U.S. history in the 1700s and 1800s.
Native America Calling
Native America Calling
Native America Calling is a live call-in program linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together in a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Each program engages noted guests and experts with callers throughout the United States and is designed to improve the quality of life for Native Americans. Native America Calling is heard on nearly 70 public, community and tribal radio stations in the United States and in Canada. Tune in and here what topics are important to them.
IAIA museum of Contemporary Arts
IAIA museum of Contemporary Arts
Don't think that Indigenous American Art as part of the past - check out this art on. virtual tour. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) is the country’s only museum for exhibiting, collecting, and interpreting the most progressive work of contemporary Native artists. MoCNA is dedicated solely to advancing the scholarship, discourse, and interpretation of contemporary Native art for regional, national, and international audiences. MoCNA is located in the heart of downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Whose Land
Whose Land
Maps and videos from indigenous people to show the bond and heritage to the land they live/lived in. This online resource provides information about Native nations throughout the United States and access to many of the Native nations’ websites. The websites provide a platform to research upcoming events and ways you can support local Indigenous communities. As you research over time, ask children prompting questions such as:
Who were the first people who lived here?
Do they still live here?
If [insert specific tribal nation] do not live here, who forcibly removed them?
Where do [insert specific tribal nation] live now? What are they doing?
Do [insert specific tribal nation] still speak their language? If not, what does that mean?
Blackbirds by the Beatles sung in Mi'kmaq
Blackbirds by the Beatles sung in Mi'kmaq
Click HERE to listen to Emma Stevens a high school student sing Blackbird originally by The Beatles sung in Mi'kmaq. Truly beautiful be sure to play the Beatles version and hers also to explore the meanings of animals and birds to the indigenous people.
Click HERE for legends of the Blackbird
Wyoming PBS videos
Wyoming PBS videos
Click HERE to go to a wide variety of informational videos on the Indigenous people of Wyoming.
Don't forget - Our virtual Backpack sister site has compiled a reading list on this subject. Please check it out.
Don't forget - Our virtual Backpack sister site has compiled a reading list on this subject. Please check it out.
www.ourvirtualbookmark.com.
www.ourvirtualbookmark.com.
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