High School Resources

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Full Lessons

10 Tips to Decolonize Your Classroom 10 Tips to Decolonize Your Classroom By Teaching Native American History

Pacific Northwest: History and Cultures - Why Do the Foods We Eat Matter? This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members, images, objects, and other sources to help students and teachers understand the efforts of Native Nations of the Pacific Northwest to protect and sustain salmon, water, and homelands. Scroll to begin an exploration of the Pacific Northwest history and cultures.

Acknowledging Native Heroes All grades

Muwekma Ohlone People Middle and High School

Texts

Celebrating Native American Veterans with Oral Histories and Primary Sources Stories of Native American Indians who served in the military in conflicts from World War II to Iraq, including one woman who served as an Army Nurse during World War II.

Native Americans' Long Journey to US Citizenship and Voting Rights Native Americans won U.S. citizenship in 1924, but the struggle for voting rights stretched on for much longer.

How Native American Women Inspired the Women's Rights Movement Indigenous women of numerous Native Nations had rights, sovereignty, and integrity long before European settlers arrived on these shores. They had complete control of their lives, maintained economic independence in marriage, and lived in a culture free from gender-based violence. While women in the United States are recognizing that 100 years ago the Constitution finally recognized the right of U.S. women to vote, Native Nation women have had political voice on this land since the founding of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) confederacy over 1000 years ago.

Videos

How Suffragist Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin Spoke Up Even after the passage of the 19th Amendment that said women could not be denied the vote because of their sex, the right to vote was not guaranteed. Since many American Indian women were not considered citizens, they were unjustly denied the ballot. Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin of North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa fought to change these rules, law degree in hand.

The Crow Warrior that Fought the Germans Chief Joseph Medicine crow was the last person to complete all four feats required to be recognized as a Crow War Chief. Fighting in the liberation of France and in the push to Germany, his amazing deeds earned him recognition from the French, the Americans and the Crow Tribe.

So Live Your Life Chief Tecumseh was a great Native American warrior chief who was leader of a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War.

Additional Resources

Art Gallery Project 562 Online Gallery Matika Wilbur created this multi-year national photography project dedicated to photographing over 562 federally recognized Tribes, urban Native communities, Tribes fighting for federal recognition and Indigenous role models in what is currently-known-as the United States, resulting in an unprecedented repository of imagery and oral histories that accurately portrays contemporary Native Americans.

Website Native American Heritage Month November is National American Indian Heritage Month The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans.

Colonizing California Episode one of a six-part audio series exploring the struggle for Indigenous language survival in California.

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