Teaching Resources
An extended family weaves baskets, makes corn-husk dolls and plays stickball.
What is We Are Grateful?
All Native peoples of the United States and territories as well as persons from Canadian First Nations and Indigenous communities in Mexico and Central and South America who are U.S. residents.
What is Native American?
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place
What is Indigenous?
An evocative depiction of a modern Native American family.
What is Fry Bread?
Persons belonging to the Indigenous tribes of the continental United States (American Indians) and the Indigenous tribes and villages of Alaska (Alaska Natives).
What is American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN)?
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
What is Colonialism?
Critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's books.
What is American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL)?
An area of land set aside for North American Indians
What is Reservation?
The authority of a state to govern itself.
What is Sovereignity?
Transforming teaching and learning about Native Americans.
What is National Museum of the American Indian's NATIVE KNOWLEDGE 360° EDUCATION INITIATIVE?
A written agreement between two or more countries, formally approved and signed by their leaders.
What is Treaty?
Tribes govern themselves in order to keep and support their ways of life, cultural, political, and economic bases.
What is Tribal sovereignty?
Eight treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations (from around 374).
What is the National Museum of the American Indian's Nation-to-Nation digital exhibit?
otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah)
What is the Cherokee word for gratitude?
A way that people insert an awareness of Indigenous presence and land rights in everyday life.
What is Land Acknowledgment?