Educational Resources
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@ Martin Regional Library & Rudisill Regional Library
Oklahoma Tribal Colleges
- College of the Muscogee Nation
- Pawnee Nation College
- Comanche Nation College
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College
Financial Aid Resources
- American Indian College Fund
- Online Guide
- The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development
- Academic Competitiveness Grant
- The American Indian Graduate Center
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society
- FAFSA - Free Application for Federal Student Aid
- Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) Program
- FinAid! Financial Aid, College Scholarships and Student Loans
- The Gates Millennium Scholars Program
- National Congress of American Indians: NCAI Youth
- Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grant Program
- Students.gov: Official U.S. government web site designed for college students and their families.
- TCC : Tulsa Achieves
- TCCL Financial Aid Subject Guide
- U.S. Department of Interier Bureau of Indian Education Scholarship Information
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Scholarship Programs
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.shtml.
First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Educational Resources
http://goodminds.com/.
Government Health Sites for Native Americans.
Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends of the Northwest
Community-based reading and language arts program especially for Indian children.
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.html.
National 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.html.
National Indian Education Association.
National Johnson-O'Malley Association.
Native
Web
Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World
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:
American Indian contributions to the world : 15,000 years of inventions and innovations / Emory Dean Keoke and Kay Marie Porterfield. New York : Checkmark Books, 2003
Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes / Carl Waldman. Facts on File, 2006.
Teaching American Indian students / edited by Jon Reyhner ; foreword by Ben Nighthorse Campbell. University of Oklahoma Press, c1992