Educational Resources
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WEB SITES:
American Indians in Children's Literature
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/AskERIC. U.S. Department of Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) Lesson Plan Database is searchable by subject and keyword. "American Indians" yielded 28 lesson plans for a variety of grade levels.
URL: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/Cradleboard Teaching Project. Award-winning songwriter and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie's innovative project dedicated to improving educational curricula about native peoples both for schools in Indian Country and for mainstream schools.
URL: http://www.cradleboard.org
Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum by the editors of Education World provides lesson ideas, plans and links to sites appropriate for use in classroom instruction. Dedicated to helping teachers use the web, the searchable site is a good resource for any subject.
URL: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson038.shtmlFirst Nations, Inuit, and Metis Educational Resources
http://goodminds.com/
Multnomah County (Oregon) Library Homework Center, Native American Sites. A library's guide to homework sites for young people includes a description of each site and its URL, similar to this guide. Included are metasites, sites on individual tribes for the Northwest U.S., legislation & treaties, and stories & legends.
URL: http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/natamhc.htmlNational American Indian Heritage Resources
NATIVE AMERICAN heritage teaching resources are featured at FREE this month in honor of National American Indian Heritage Month: http://www.ed.gov/free/past/2005/111.htmlNational Indian Education Association
National Johnson-O'Malley Association
Native Web
Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the WorldOnline Resources for Indian Education
Oyate is a Native organization that reviews texts, resource materials, fiction and media by and about Native peoples. It also conducts teacher workshops on evaluating material.
URL: http://www.oyate.org/
BOOKS:
A to Z of Native American Women / Liz Sonneborn. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes / Carl Waldman. Facts on File, 1999.
Native North American Firsts / Karen Gayton Swisher, AnCita Benally, eds. Gale, 1998.
Native Time: An Historical Time Line of Native America / Lee Francis. St. Martin's Press, 1996.
