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Recommended Curriculum & Resources

Learn about Oregon Senate Bill 13 Tribal History/Shared History here

• Statewide curriculum relating to the Native American experience in Oregon, including tribal history, tribal sovereignty, culture, treaty rights, government, socioeconomic experiences, and current events

Oregon Department of Education educator, student and parent resources

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Tribal History Units

• 4th Grade Curriculum
• 8th Grade Curriculum

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) film, Broken Treaties, An Oregon Experience

Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgment

• Print, Customize, and Post #HonorNativeLand Art for your classroom
• Oregon Native Land Acknowledgment poster to the right

National Museum of the American Indian Native Knowledge 360° curriculum

American Public Media Reports: Uprooted:The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country

Zinn Education Project: Teaching People’s History

• The People vs. Columbus, et al.
• Discovering Columbus: Re-reading the Past
• The Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play
• Andrew Jackson and the “Children of the Forest”

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years: Resources for teaching about the impact of the arrival of Columbus in the Americas (2003) by Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson

Powwow Times: Boys with Braids

TEDxSFU: Decolonization is For Everyone - Nikki Sanchez

Recommended Resources for Librarians

We highly recommend referencing the American Indians in Children's Literature website for book recommendations, reviews, and critiques.

A Mighty Girl: 40 Children's Books Celebrating Native American & Indigenous Mighty Girls

Recommended Resources for Counselors & Administrators

US Department of Health & Human Services: TIP 61 Behavioral Health Services for American Indians & Alaska Natives 

• TIP 61 highlights the importance of cultural awareness, cultural competence, and culture-specific knowledge, as well as methods to foster a culturally responsive environment for American Indian and Alaska Native clients

Indigenizing Love: A Toolkit for Native Youth to Build Inclusion

• Western States Center partnered with the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, the Center for Native American Youth, and Native Youth Leadership Alliance to develop a resource toolkit for and with young Native leaders

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November is Native American Heritage Month!

"The month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. Heritage Month is also an opportune time to educate the general public about tribes, to raise a general awareness about the unique challenges Native people have faced both historically and in the present, and the ways in which tribal citizens have worked to conquer these challenges." - National Congress of American Indians

• PBS Native American Heritage Month documentaries
• Indian Country Today: “5 Ways to Celebrate Native American Heritage Month”
• About National Native American Heritage Month

November 15 - Rock Your Mocs Day

The City of Portland proclaimed November 16, 2018 to be #RockYourMocs Day (see proclamation to the right)

Colorlines: “Why Natives are Rocking Their Moccasins: An Interview with the 21 year old who started Rock Your Mocs, a worldwide day to mark Indigenous roots”

Youtube: Interview with Rock Your Mocs founder, Jessica Jaylyn Atsye

Follow the event on Facebook and Twitter

Teaching Thanksgiving Resources

National Museum of the American Indian Thanksgiving curriculum

Film: We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts

No Film School: “11 Brilliant Native American Films to Watch This Thanksgiving”

Teen Vogue: Native American Girls Describe the REAL History Behind Thanksgiving

Michelle McCauley: 7 Things Teachers Need to Avoid When Teaching About Thanksgiving

 

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SHARE LOCAL EVENTS WITH YOUR STUDENTS

PPS Marysville K-8 teacher, Gillian Murr made an Indigenous Peoples' Day Google Slides presentation

PPS Cleveland High School students organize RISE (Reclaiming Indigenous Identity through Solidarity & Education) assembly

• Read more about the event on PULSE

PPS Bridger 6th Grade Language Arts class engages with Standing Rock and poetry through visual art project

PPS Grant High School Native American Student Union organizes Flag-Raising Ceremony 

• Watch a video made by the Native American Student Union for Grant's Race Forward November 2018 event
• Read more about the event on PULSE

Multnomah County proclaimed October 8, 2018 to be Indigenous People’s Day with Proclamation No. 2018-099 (download proclamation)

The City of Portland proclaimed November 16, 2018 to be #RockYourMocs Day (see proclamation to the right)

The City of Portland proclaimed May 5, 2018 to be a Day or Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls (download primer)

• Learn more about the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Day here and here

CURRENT EVENTS

National Congress of American Indians: Proud to Be (Mascots)

Indian Country Today: The Genocide Bowl (or what most people call Super Bowl LIV)

NPR interview: "Native American Rep.-Elect Deb Halland Makes History With Congressional Win"

TIME: "Sharice Davids To Become First Gay Native American Woman Elected to the House"

MSNBC interview: Ruth Buffalo on her election as the first Native American democratic woman State Representative in North Dakota

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