The following is a list of sites (with links ) focused on Indigenous Teaching Practices.
American Indians in Children’s Literature Blog
Digital Workshops for Teachers of Native American Students
The Digital Teacher Workshops are designed to provide professional development training for Teachers of American Indians and Alaska Natives in all grade levels and content areas. The workshops support mastery of academic content and application by modeling strong teaching methods that have been successful in the classroom and providing a classroom application component, and additional resources.
Native American Health Issues The Medicine Bundle is a magazine that focuses on health, for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Our mission is to provide high quality health information that is relevant and useful to the Aboriginal population of North America; to share experiential stories and lessons learned that help to make a difference; and to create ripples of positive change in the health of our world.
UCLA Language Materials Project Search for language resources (text, audio, & web) by language, level, material, and audience. The LMP covers 151 less commonly taught languages from all over the globe, including a few indigenous languages of the Americas, such as Cree, Inuit, Nahuatl, Cherokee, Navajo, Quechua, Hawaiian, Ojibwe, and Lakota/Dakota. Also provides language profiles.
www.aee.org The Association for Experiential Education
www.ANKN.uaf.edu This is the Alaska Native Knowledge Network originating out of the University of Alaska Fairbanks
www.centerschool.org Nawayee Center School: Culturally supportive alternative education, Minneapolis, Minnesota “Our mission is to provide American Indian youth with culturally and community based education and work experiences that result in academic excellence, cultural understanding and responsible community membership.”
www.migizi.org MIGIZI Communications effects and contributes to social justice and positive change by committing resources to telecommunications, education, health/wellness, and other areas that contribute to capacity-building within the American Indian community. -Site Mission Statement
www.pa.org Project Adventure: promotes Adventure education to build personal and professional growth.
www.cal.org/crede Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence within the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
http://www.iltf.org/ Indian Land Tenure Foundation Our Mission:
“Land within the original boundaries of every reservation and other areas of high significance where tribes retain aboriginal interest are in Indian ownership and management.”
www.cradleboard.org Cradleboard Teaching Project: Lessons, curriculum, teacher’s circles, and many other resources focusing on Native American culture.
www.nacdi.org Native American Community Development Institute
http://ojibwemovies.com/ OjibweMovies.com and OjibwemowinNoongom is being developed by Dr. Mary Hermes, UMD education professor, through a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation with additional funding from the Grotto Foundation. Ojibwe language educators and Ojibwe elders from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ontario are involved in bringing this project to fruition.
www.oyate.org Oyate is a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that all people will know our stories belong to us. For Indian children, it is as important as it has ever been for them to know who they are and what they come from. For all children, it is time to know and acknowledge the truths of history. Only then will they come to have the understanding and respect for each other that now, more than ever, will be necessary for life to continue.
www.wipce2008.com The World Indigenous Peoples Conference: Education (WIPCE) is a triennial conference of international significance that attracts peoples from around the globe to celebrate and share diverse cultures, traditions and knowledge with a focus on world Indigenous education. The purpose of WIPC:E is to provide a forum to come together, share and learn and promote best practice in Indigenous education policies, programs and practice.
http://dets.niddk.nih.gov The DETS curriculum includes K – 12 multidisciplinary units with lessons that are designed to enhance the understanding and appreciation of the problems of diabetes in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities, to empower students to make healthy lifestyle choices, and to stimulate general student interest in diabetes-based science careers. The curriculum is based on national education standards for the respective subject area, along with Native American cultural content.“http://www.kizhenaabeg.com/” www.kizhenaabeg.com A website with lots of Ojibwe and Dakota language learning resources.“Kizhenaabeg was founded in order to help people create resources to teach their languages. We create interactive multimedia web pages, podcasts, videos and digitize archival material with a focus on less commonly taught languages.” The curriculum can then be used online, on a cd-rom or on Moodle, Blackboard, or WebCt.
About the name ‘Kizhenaabeg’
The word Kizhenaabeg means “The Benevolent Indians’. This name was used for young men from the ages of 20-40 who would contribute whatever they hunted, fished or trapped to the community they belonged to in order to help people who were in need. After this period, they would be considered leaders of their people.
“http://www.lakotawaldorfschool.org/” www.lakotawaldorfschool.org “the Lakota Waldorf School strives to initiate the educational process while maintaining the Lakota language and culture. Our goal is to empower our Lakota children so they will create positive active futures for themselves and their community.”
“http://cosmicserpent.org/about-us/the-cosmic-serpent” http://cosmicserpent.org “Cosmic Serpent will explore commonalities between western and native science, taking into account that native cultures have, over millennia, developed ways of knowing that are highly adapted, interconnected, and enduring. Each knowledge system informs the practice of science and its role in society in a fundamental way, and the commonalities can provide a framework for developing mutually inclusive learning experiences in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). The project recognizes previous work that attempted to integrate both systems. Our innovative and collaborative approach explores commonalities between the two systems in the context of informal science education.
“http://www.davestrainbooks.com/” http://davestrainbooks.com This the website for Word Carrier Trading Post, a Native-Owned book service/store.They offer discounted prices to schools and educators and offer book fairs for schools as well.They are well worth making the effort to contact them, offering a very large, nearly comprehensive collection of books on Native Americans from which to choose.
“http://www.fourdirectionsteachings.com/” http://www.fourdirectionsteachings.com/
“Four Directions Teachings celebrates Indigenous oral traditions by honoring the process of listening with intent as each elder or traditional teacher shares a teaching from their perspective on the richness and value of cultural traditions from their nation. In honor of the timelessness of Indigenous oral traditions, audio narration is provided throughout the site, complimented by beautifully animated visuals. In addition, the site provides free curriculum packages for grades 1 to 12 to further explore the vast richness of knowledge and cultural philosophy that is introduced within each teaching. The curriculum is provided in downloadable PDF and can also be read online through the Teacher’s Resources link. The elders and traditional teachers who have shared a teaching on this site were approached through a National Advisory Committee of Indigenous people concerned with the protection and promotion of Indigenous knowledge. This committee was formed directly for the purposes of this website to ensure a community based approach that was respectful and accountable.”
“http://www.indigenouseducation.org/” http://www.indigenouseducation.org/
The Indigenous Education Institute (IEI) was created in 1995 as a non-profit 501©(3) institution with a mission to preserve, protect and apply traditional Indigenous knowledge in a contemporary setting, that of Indigenous peoples today, around the world. IEI has developed numerous projects that preserve traditional knowledge, protect the knowledge in terms of Indigenous protocol, and apply it to areas such as astronomy and other science disciplines