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American Indian History and Heritage
This Teacher's Guide from the National Endowment for the Humanities will introduce you to the cultures and explore the histories of some groups within the over 5 million people who identify as American Indian in the United States, with resources designed for integration across humanities curricula and classrooms throughout the school year.
Image credit: Long Walk Home—Gallup Downtown Murals—by Richard K Yazzir, 2005.
Selected Resources For Teachers
The Library of Congress 6Hide All
- Blog posts from Teaching with the Library of Congress on Native American Heritage
- Celebrating Native American Veterans with Oral Histories and Primary Sources
- Native American Boarding Schools – Primary Source Set
- Native American Newspapers: Studying the History through the Eyes of the Community
- Living Nations, Living Words: A Guide for Educators
- PALABRA Indigenous Voices
National Archives 7Hide All
- DocsTeach: The online tool for teaching with documents
- American Indians - Primary Sources and Ready-to-Use Teaching Activities
- American Indian Voting Rights through History
- Analyzing a Photograph of a Young American Indian
- Analyzing the Petition Against the Treaty of New Echota
- Assimilation of American Indians
- Before and After Carlisle School
- The Impact of Westward Expansion on Native American Communities
National Endowment for the Humanities and Partner Organizations 13Hide All
- Aacimwahkionkonci: Stories from the Land from Miami University, Oxford
- EDSITEment's Learning Lab: Race, Gender, and the U.S. Military
- Interactive Lesson: A Cheyenne Odyssey (Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Language of Place: Hopi Place Names, Poetry, Traditional Dance and Song
- Learning the Lakota Language
- Miami-Illinois Digital Archive (site supported by NEH)
- Mukurtu: an Indigenous archive and publishing tool (site supported by NEH)
- Native Americans and the American Revolution: Choosing Sides
- NEH 50 States of Preservation project
- Not “Indians,” Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
- “Remember” by Joy Harjo
- Teacher's Guide: American Indian History and Heritage
- Teaching Native American Histories (in partnership with University of Massachusetts)
- You Are the Historian Game from University of Massachusetts, Boston and Plimoth Patuxet
National Gallery of Art 4Hide All
National Park Service 3Hide All
Smithsonian Institution 12Hide All
- Americans: A Dialogue Toolkit for Educators (PDF)
- American Indian music on Smithsonian Folkways
- Carriers of Culture: Living Native Basket Traditions
- Folklife Festival Program Book Articles
- Land and Native American Cultures
- Masters of Tradition: A Cultural Journey Across America
- Moccasin Madness! Navajo and Apache Moccasin Game Songs
- Native Knowledge 360°
- Singing in the Harvest: Music from the Zuni
- Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Alaska
- Smithsonian Folkways Lesson Plans
- Trail of Tears: Music of the American Indian Diaspora
Smithsonian Folklife Magazine 9Hide All
- In the Pandemic, Sculptor Nora Naranjo Morse Remembers What Is Sacred
- Native Innovation in Video Games: An Interview with Game Designer Elizabeth LaPensée
- North American Indigenous Flute vs. “Native American Flute”: A Lesson in Tradition from Kevin Locke
- A Q&A with the Smithsonian's First Curator from the Lumbee Tribe
- Regrowing Our Connections: Diné Relief, Recovery, and Remembrance
- “Seeds Have Stories”: Connecting Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity
- Shishmaref: A Short Film and Field Notes from a Native Alaskan Village
- The Spirit Lives On in Art: Lily Hope&#apos;s “Chilkat Protector”
- The Struggle for Native Lands in Indianola, Washington
- Take It to the Courts: Amplifying Voices of Oakland’s Mam-Maya Community
- This Land Is Whose Land? Indian Country and the Shortcomings of Settler Protest
- Weaving Through Time, Pandemic, and Wildfire