Native American Resources and Materials

 

Native American Studies - Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum
Separate Class about Native American Peoples,  pp. 259-283 in Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, California Department of Education.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/esmcchapter4.pdf

 

Whose History Matters? Students Can Name Columbus, But Most Have Never Heard of the Taíno People
https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/whose-history-matters-taino
This article, published in Zinn Education Project, highlights key pieces of primary source information about the Taino People who were the indigenous peoples in the Caribbean when Columbus landed in that part of America.

 

Integrating Ethnic Studies into Existing Courses - ES Model Curriculum p. 51-52, same URL as above.
(few specifics about scope & sequence are provided)

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Elementary Lessons

Miwok Informational Writing, grades 3 or 4
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10yL2hsLp9O6-rYnTcMuvjHVi2D59WlLr/view
This Google slide set engages a class in whole group writing/research activity. It guides students through the steps to research and organize information about the Miwok people. It is a good demonstration of how to effectively integrate ELA and H-SS content. It's a good activity of how geography and history change the regions in which people now live. (Source: CHSSP Berkeley)

 

The Tongva Before and After Spanish Arrival
https://www.teachingcalifornia.org 

Students will produce a written response, using a mural of Toypurina as a prompt. They will also examine images of the Tongva within the context of how they lived “before missions” and “within the mission system" with a focus on how the mission system impacted their culture and quality of life
Students will work in collaborative groups to analyze images, record observations, make inferences, and respond to questions generated. Grade 4 (Source: UCLA History-Geography Project, KCET,

and Huntington Institute on California and the West)

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Indigenous People of California: Whose Land Do I Live On?
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15pmwg1pdFjpMQRstBVIMdWzHVEx0UGDv--LE5vff1CQ/edit#slide=id.p

Over the last few years, UCB-HSSP has spent time learning about settler colonialism and the ongoing history, presence, and organizing of Ohlone people in the Bay Area. These resources have been compiled and developed as a result of this period of study and have informed shifts in programming and work with teachers. Grades K-2 (Source: CHSSP Berkeley)

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Native California History Resources
https://ucbhssp.berkeley.edu/native-california
Here is a rich set of resources on Indigenous Peoples. Some are reading material, some video, some presentations.

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Indigenous Sovereignty: One Land Plot at a Time | KQED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HHoFZ3fXY&list=PLai19KBgVWuc7pfUbnTJENv6b-GcmtKzd&index=7

The essential question is 'How can Native Peoples burial grounds be protected?' See how some people are helping.

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Grades 8 - 12 Student Lessons

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America and the Six Nations: Native Americans after the Revolution
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/education-material/america-and-the-six-nations-native-americans-after-the-revolution/

Lesson developed by the National Humanities Center to explore the early years of interaction between Euro-Americans and Native Peoples from the colonial era to the American Revolution.

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America, the Creeks, and Other Southeastern Tribes
https://americainclass.org/america-the-creeks-and-other-southeastern-tribes/

This lesson was developed by the National Humanities Center to assist students to understand the perspectives of both Euro American immigrants and the long lived indigenous peoples in the southeastern part of the newly formed USA.

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Primary Sources

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Boarding Schools 12 years of hell’: Indian boarding school survivors share their stories
Source: Washington Post by Dana Hedgpeth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/08/07/indian-boarding-school-survivors-abuse-trauma/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

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BACKGROUND: In an effort to assimilate native peoples and the European immigrant population of the United States, the Federal Government set up a boarding school system. For nearly 100 years, from the 1870s until 1969, the government, often in partnership with churches, religious orders and missionary groups, operated and supported more than 400 Indian boarding schools in 37 states. The first recorded investigation of this school system, the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report, was published in May 2022 by the U.S. Interior Department.