Resources: 2021 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Curriculum Teach-In

Indigenous Land: Stewardship, Relationships, and Responsibility

Thank you for attending the 2021 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Curriculum Teach-In. Below find resources from each session. For additional teaching resources, see the NMAI’s Native Knowledge 360° website and the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Climate Justice campaign.

• • Keynote
  • Making Land Acknowledgement Meaningful
  • Native Voices in Children’s Literature
  • Virtual Field Trip Demonstration: American Indian Removal
  • Inka Road, Bridge, and Landscapes
  • Pipeline Protests: Putting Climate Civil Disobedience into the Curriculum (Necessity Film)
  • “Nothing Was Discovered, Everything Was Already Loved”: Critical Conceptions of Land in K-12 Curriculum

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Keynote Session

Dr. Kelsey Leonard

• TED Talk: Why Lakes and Rivers Should Have the Same Rights as Humans
• Junior Water Walkers
• Earth Law Center

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Making Land Acknowledgement Meaningful

Renée Gokey

• Land Acknowledgement Guidance Points and Examples
• Territory Acknowledgement – Native Land
• Indigenous Land Acknowledgment | Native Governance Center
• So you Want to Acknowledge the Land | High Country News
• Are you Planning to do a Land Acknowledgment? | American Indians in Children’s Literature
• Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments | âpihtawikosisân
• Guide to Indigenous Land and Territorial Acknowledgements for Cultural Institutions | Land Acknowledgements
• Land Acknowledgement | Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition
• Native American & Indigenous Peoples Initiative | Texas Christian University
• We Have a Story to Tell: Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region | NMAI

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NATIVE VOICES IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Dr. Debbie Reese

• American Indians in Children’s Literature (AICL)
• Critical Indigenous Literacies Article
• NMAI Native American Literature in your Classroom Introductory Page
• NMAI Native American Literature in your Classroom Worksheet
• Heartdrum Educator Guide
• AICL Best Books Page
• AICL Tips for Teachers Page
• Books Recommended
  • Sisters of the Neversea
  • Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman
• Books NOT Recommended
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins
  • Walk Two Moons

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VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP DEMONSTRATION: AMERICAN INDIAN REMOVAL

Michaela Pavlat and Gabrielle Lee

Availability for NMAI Virtual Field Trips are released monthly. Teachers will be able to register for November programs on October 1.

• Native Knowledge 360° Online Lesson: American Indian Removal
• More NK360° Educational Resources
• Treaty of New Echota (1835)
• Cherokee Nation Protest Petition
• American Indian Removal Facts
• American Indian Removal Resources
• More stories of Removal
• Discussion Guide on the Story of Cherokee Removal
• Dialogue Toolkit – Americans

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INKA ROAD, BRIDGE, AND LANDSCAPES

Dr. Isabel Hawkins

• NK360° Lesson The Great Inka Road: How Can a Road System Be an Example of Innovation? | En Español
• A Road in the Andes
• The Bridge of Q’eswachaka
• NK360° Lesson The Inka Empire: What Innovations Can Provide Food and Water for Millions? | En Español

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PIPELINE PROTESTS: PUTTING CLIMATE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE INTO THE CURRICULUM (NECESSITY FILM)

Ursula Wolfe Rocca

• Zinn Education Project Lesson | Teaching Climate Disobedience: Using the Film Necessity in the Classroom
• Film | Necessity: Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance

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“Nothing Was Discovered,  Everything Was Already Loved”: Critical Conceptions of Land in K-12 Curriculum

Dr. Leilani Sabzalian

Center for Humans and Nature: Questions for a Resilient Future

• How can we live respectfully with the land and one another?
• What stories does the land hold?
• What kind of ancestor do you want to be?

Juxtaposing Perspectives to Support Student’s Critical Thinking Activity

• American Territorial Expansion Mapped by The Daily Conversation (video)
• Invasion of America by Claudio Saunt (video) 

Other Resources described in the session

• The Tribal Legacy Project
• Homeland, full poem by Karenne Wood, a poet from the Monacan Indian nation (from the book “Enough Good People”)
• Homeland image and graphic 
• Honoring Tribal Legacies Website and Curriculum
• Land as Teacher: Understanding Indigenous Land-Based Education featuring Dr. Alex Wilson on queering land-based education 
• “Settler Colonialism an Overview” Prezi by Eve Tuck

Recommended Books to Foster Anticolonial and Critical Indigenous Literacy

• Teaching Critically about Lewis and Clark by Alison Schmitke, Leilani Sabzalian, and Jeff Edmundson (use code LEWISANDCLARKFALL2021 for 15% discount and free shipping; expires 11/30/2021)
• Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought by Sandy Grande
• Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools by Leilani Sabzalian (use code ADC21 for a 30% discount)
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese
• Huckleberries and Coyotes: Lessons From our More Than Human Relations by Michelle Jacob
• Fox Doesn’t Wear a Watch: Lessons from Mother Nature’s Classroom by Michelle Jacob
• For more books, including Native-authored books to use in your classroom, see this booklist from Social Justice Books featuring Indigenous peoples and nations

From the Slides: Plains Cree scholar Emma LaRocque in her book When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990 shares how this civ/sav dichotomy also surfaces in a “double standard” in how Indigenous and Western societies are discussed:

“In this war of words, Whites explore, Indians wander; Whites have battles or victories, Indians massacre and murder; Whites scout, Indians lurk; …Whites defend themselves, Indians “wreak revenge”; ….Whites have “faiths” and so they pray; Indians have superstitions and so they conjure; (LaRocque, 2010, p. 50)