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Bureau of Indian Affairs Photographs Finding Aid. Interview Transcript: Lori Walsh: Welcome back to In the Moment.

Bureau of Indian Affairs Photographs Finding Aid

I'm Lori Walsh. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been collecting photos from U.S. reservations for decades, but the pictures haven't been easy for members of the public to find until very recently. There is now an online searchable database of the pictures, thanks to the National Archives and Records Administration. Welcome Jason. How Native Writers Talk Story: Honoring Authentic Voices in Books for Young People. We are the first storytellers on this continent.

How Native Writers Talk Story: Honoring Authentic Voices in Books for Young People

But despite the increasing visibility of Native and First Nations today, many readers are still new to our ways of making sense of the world through literature. Our stories often feature distinct, Indigenous literary styles and cultural references. Joyfully, the community of Native and First Nations writers creating books for children and teens keeps growing. With each publication season, an ever-expanding body of Indigenous youth literature is available. Čhaŋkpé Ópi Owíčhakte Wičhúŋkiksuyapi: We Remember the Wounded Knee Massacre. On December 29, 1890, the United States Army killed 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

Čhaŋkpé Ópi Owíčhakte Wičhúŋkiksuyapi: We Remember the Wounded Knee Massacre

Frank Waln, an award-winning Lakota music artist from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, discusses the 130th anniversary of the massacre and Native representation in the U.S. education system. In this op-ed, Frank Waln, an award-winning Sicangu Lakota hip-hop artist and music producer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, discusses the 130th anniversary of Wounded Knee and the erasure of Native histories and stories. American media outlets and public school curriculums teach U.S. citizens to remember massacres and senseless acts of violence that were carried out on U.S. soil, such as Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

However, the same educational systems and outlets have all but forgotten about the senseless acts of violence and genocide carried out by the U.S. government. During this military occupation, the U.S. Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings & Standards (2018) Office of Indian Education. Introduction Click Link to View PDF In 2008, the Oceti Sakowin core concepts were developed by a team of educators and experts in culture, history, oral traditions, and language that collaborated with the South Dakota Department of Education.

Office of Indian Education

South Dakota Tribal Relations. SD Public Broadcasting: Native American Studies Resources. South Dakota State Historical Society. ˜° Menu Museum Education Digital Outreach- Click the link to discover fun and interesting activities you can do at home. The Museum of the South Dakota State Historical Society offers suitcase education kits, gallery classes, and guided gallery tours. Bring a real beaver pelt, a south Dakota symbols match-up game, or a piece of roadway asphalt to your classroom with an education kit.

Bring in your second, third, and fourth graders in for a gallery class at the Cultural Heritage Center to learn about buffalo, the environment, or Lewis and Clark's Journey. New to our education offerings is a special family activity for families called "History Explorers". Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural Center. SDPB Documentaries: Oceti Sakowin - The People of the Seven Council Fires. Oglala Lakota College. SDPB Learning Library - Oceti Sakowin. South Dakota DOE - Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings and Standards (Introduction) Video clip includes the prologue and chapters 1&2.

SDPB Learning Library - Oceti Sakowin

Chapter 1: We call Ourselves the Oyate - The Oyate are the native people of the upper Midwest, made up of seven tribes and three language (Lakota, Nakota, Dakota) groups. Chapter 2 - The Seven Council Fires: The seven tribes routinely came together to maintain relationships. (Website) For six-hundred years we have lived under the misconception that Columbus discovered America. Wóokiye Project - SD Indigenous Education. View a recording of the Wóokiye Project Launch Informational ZOOM held on Monday, March 30, 2020 at 3:00 pm Central, 2:00 pm Mountain time here.

Wóokiye Project - SD Indigenous Education

View / Download Powerpoint for Zoom Meeting Here. We are looking for three pilot schools with 5 interested, motivated teachers from each school and an additional 5 AT LARGE teachers from around the state to be the mentors (20 total Wóokiye Teachers). These teachers will receive training this summer and will be participants in required monthly virtual meetings. Each will be paid $1500 for the year. The three schools will also get schoolwide PD. The project will begin August 2020 for the 2020-2021 school year. Digitized Collection of Early 20th-Century Lakota Drawings Tells a Curious History. CHICAGO — At a glance, they may look like more conventional outsider art work, but upon closer inspection you realize these drawings contain a history of a community that was actively being erased by the United States.

Digitized Collection of Early 20th-Century Lakota Drawings Tells a Curious History

Many show scenes of warfare and hunting, vividly depicted in watercolor and colored pencils and punctuated with splashes of red. In 1922, the Newberry Library acquired this collection of 160 drawings, attributed to “Sioux Indians” living in Fort Yates, which serves as headquarters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The three boxes of art were sold by one Aaron McGaffey Beede, an Episcopal missionary who had provided paper and art supplies to the residents he had come to know, and paid them small sums to purchase the resulting works. Oyate.org - Resources. Deconstructing the Myths of "The First Thanksgiving" by Judy Dow (Abenaki) Revised 06/12/06 Buy your own copy of Thanksgiving: A Native Perspective here!

oyate.org - Resources

What is it about the story of "The First Thanksgiving" that makes it essential to be taught in virtually every grade from preschool through high school? South Dakota State Library. Native American Heritage Month. Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian. Nat'l Congress of American Indians. PBS - Native American Heritage Month. Native Knowledge 360° Project 562. Talk Story Together – Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture. Honoring Indigenous Experiences. Dr. Debbie Reese - Are we "people of color"?

Edited on Friday, 12-2-12, to insert information about physical appearance and why it does not matter, and to change the title of this page from 'We are not "people of color" to "Are we 'people of color?

Dr. Debbie Reese - Are we "people of color"?

' Through AICL, I share a lot of information that I think will help readers learn about and understand the 500+ federally recognized Native Nations in the United States. I think it important that people know that what we look like, physically, is not important. Our membership or citizenship in our respective nations is what matters. Most people know about the federal government and the state governments, but very few know about tribal governments. Very few people know that American Indians in the United States have a status that marks us as distinct from minority or underrepresented populations (such as African Americans).

Native Hope. Decolonizing the Classroom: Teaching With Indigenous Comics. Native Realities. Our home on native land. Native Americans Today. Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice.

Native Americans Today

YKSD Book Slam. Amplifying Indigenous Experiences. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AICL's Best Books of 2020. This is the time of the year when annual "Best of" booklists come out. AICL has published our own Best Books lists for many years now. We like to make sure teachers have those suggestions as they think about what to bring into their classrooms.

And as the winter holidays approach, we want families to know what's new and good in books with Native content, that they can give to the young people in their lives. Inclusive Booklists. American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) Cynsations - Cynthia Leitich Smith.

By Cynthia Leitich Smith, Gayleen Rabukukk, Stephani Eaton, and Gail Vannelli for Cynsations Thank you to everyone who joined us over the 2019-2020 academic year! We dearly appreciate the authors, illustrators, gatekeepers and industry pros who shared their insights and inspirations. We’re so grateful to our readers, signal boosters, and of course our wonderful reporters⁠—Angela Cerrito, Continue Reading Cynsational Summer Hiatus » House of Anansi Press. Word Carrier (Rapid City, SD) Second Story Press. Contemporary Native American Children's and Young Adult Books. Good Reads: Indigenous Shelf. American Indian Youth Literature Award.

Lee & Low: Native American, Indigenous Children's Books. The Roadrunner Press. Portage & Main Press. Social Justice Books. Annick Press. American Indian Youth Literature Award - American Indian Library Association. Devoted to Diversity: Publishers with a Purpose.

It’s no secret that mainstream publishing has gaps to fill. It’s no secret that mainstream publishing has gaps to fill. Talk Story Together. Native Perspectives: Books by, for, and about Indigenous People. Super Indian Comics – Once A Rez Boy, Now A Hero! VIDEO: Monique Speak: Speaking Our Truth. A Journey of Reconciliation Canada’s relationship with its Indigenous people has suffered as a result of both the Residential School system and the lack of understanding of the historical and current impact of those schools. Healing and repairing that relationship requires education, awareness and increased understanding of the legacy and the impacts still being felt by Survivors and their families.

Guided by acclaimed Indigenous author Monique Gray Smith, readers will learn about the lives of Survivors and listen to allies who are putting the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into action. Watch Monique Speak about Speaking Our Truth on YouTube. VIDEO: Indian Shoes. DIGITAL PICTURE BOOK: I Am Not a Number. WoLakota Project: elder videos, interviews, lessons, films, resources. Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 1. Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 2. Indian Country Today. Indianz.Com - Native American news, information & entertainment. Tribal Nations & the United States: An Introduction. We are excited to announce the updated report is now published as of February, 2020. Questions? Email NCAIPress@ncai.org. Tribal Nations and the United States: An Introduction - Download PDF (Updated February 2020 Edition) Rising Voices / Hótȟaŋiŋpi - Revitalizing the Lakota Language.

Lakota Language Consortium. Lakota Berenstein Bears Play all In 2011, LLC completed the Lakota Berenstain Bears project, producing 20 episodes of the beloved cartoon - in Lakota! SDHC's Lakota Translated Book Coincides with Language Adoption Bill. Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language Protector: Diane Wilson, Tashia Hart, Tashia Hart: 9781634893640: Amazon.com: Books. BHSU American Indian Studies. The Center for Indian Studies was established at Black Hills State University by an act of the South Dakota Legislature.

Sinte Gleska University. Lower Brule Community College. Swcollege - Home. Build Your Brighter Future.