Educational Resources

• Alaska Standards for Culturally Responsive Schools

• Guide to Implementing the Alaska Cultural Standards for Educators

• SAMHSA Culture Card: Guide to Build Cultural Awareness

• Untangling Colonialism-Decolonizing Advocacy

• Decolonizing Your Classroom

• Indigitize it! Online and on the land: A Camp for the Peoples During Pandemic and Systemic Change

• Not Light But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

• Making Indigenous-Led Education A Public Policy Priority: The Benefits of Land-Based Education and Programming

• National Museum of the American Indian: Native Knowledge 360

• Alaska Native Language Center Publications Store

• Indigenous People’s Day Resources

• The Impact of Words and Tips for Using Appropriate Terminology   

• Amplify the Voices of Contemporary Native Peoples in Your Classroom lesson plans

• The First Migratory Learners Infographic
  
  
• Understanding the needs and experiences of Alaska Native English learner students Infographics

• Native Youth Count Infographic 

Book Lists

• National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center Book List

• Children’s Books by Indigenous Authors and Illustrators

• National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Recommended Reading List

Videos

• Amber Vaska NYO Video

• Cook Inlet Tribes Native Youth Olympics Video

•  Robert Kinneen Alaska Eats

• Brett Dillingham: Performance Literacy

• Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center Video Series

• Tanana Chiefs Conference Legacy of Our Elders

• ANE Elizabeth Peratrovich video

• The Fight To Saving the Dying Languages of Alaska

• Elizabeth Peratrovich by Haida Artis Janine Gibbons

• Tunchai Redvers: Creating environments for Indigenous Youth to Live & Succeed

• Moccasin Making Series  

Taught by a Metis Home Ec teacher, this series will take you step-by-step through creating a custom-fit moccasin pattern, what supplies you'll need (and where to buy!), how to use your pattern to prep those supplies, and finally the hand stitches you'll need to know in order to assemble your new moccasins! Subscribe so you don't miss out on my next courses!

Curriculum/Toolkits

• Art Kit Textbook Grade Level 5-8 Northwest Coast Formline Design

• Lessons of Our Land: Mother Earth and The Earth on Turtles Back

• The Whale Child: ABOUT THE WHALE CHILD

• An inspiring middle-grade chapter book that introduces young readers to the environmental challenges facing the planet through the eyes of Coast Salish characters and authors.

• Native Land Teachers Guide

• Math in a Cultural Context

• Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Teacher’s Guide

• SeaAlaska Books, Curriculum, Cultural Education

• QAQAMIIĜUX̂: Head Start Traditional Foods Preschool Curriculum

• Native Diabetes Wellness Program Book and Coloring Book (4th-5th)

• Native Diabetes Wellness Program Book and Coloring Book (5th-8th)

• Benhti Kenaga Books and Flashcards (Doyon Foundation Funded)

  • Łuk’a Ts’iłki One Fish, Łuk’a Notik’a Two Fish, Łuk’a Delk’ezri Red Fish, Łuk’a Lek’wdli White Fish

  • Flashcards

  • Author Reading (Natilly Hovda)

• Doyon Foundation Our Language Activity Book

Residential Boarding School Information

Every Child Matters Day or National Day of Remembrance for US Boarding Schools and National Day of Truth & Reconciliation began in Canada as a day to bring attention to the damage the residential school system did to Indigenous children, lives, and cultures.

 National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition curriculum in U.S. Indian Boarding Schools for teachers and parents:

• Grade School: NABS Truth and Healing Curriculum
• High School: NABS Truth and Healing Curriculum
• Middle School: NABS Truth and Healing Curriculum
• Healing-Informed Events to Honor Boarding School Survivors

• Alaska Children’s Trust Every Child Matters Day Toolkit: Every Child Matters Day or National Day of Remembrance for US Boarding Schools and National Day of Truth & Reconciliation began in Canada as a day to bring attention to the damage the residential school system did to Indigenous children, lifeways, and cultures.

• Phyllis Story: The Original Orange Shirt

 Coloring Pages

• Inupiat Coloring Culture

• Unangam Coloring Pages

• Molly of Denali Language Coloring Pages