Native American Resources for Primary Students
In this resource guide, you'll find lessons that use Native American stories for learning, unique art projects, historical information, and more. You won't want to miss the resources available from the Lakota Sioux. They include music, graphics, pictures, and video.

Native American Education
Tribal colleges have been called "under-funded miracles" and "economic lifelines" for U.S. Indian reservations. Created over the last 30 years in response to the higher education needs of American Indians, they generally serve geographically isolated populations that have no other means of accessing education beyond the high school level. As tribes have continued to seek self-determination and independence from a paternalistic federal government by taking control of their own education

Native American Literature
Native American authors of fiction and poetry have begun to receive the recognition they deserve as writers and artists. Noted Native American author James Welch writes, "Indian writers might come from different eras, from different geographies, from different tribes, but we all have one thing in common: We are storytellers from a long way back. And we will be heard for generations to come."

Native American Architecture & Calenders
Most of what we know of Native American mathematics is geometric information preserved in the architectural monuments and calendars of the most ancient native civilizations. These reflect the positions of the sun, moon, and stars, as well as religious events. This resource guide links to sites with information on these monuments and on the kind of mathematical and astronomical knowledge that their builders must have had to design them.

Tribal Nations
Native Americans form an important part of the rich tapestry of American society. There are hundreds of tribal nations in the contiguous U.S. alone, and hundreds more in Alaska and Canada. The Internet offers historically underrepresented and misrepresented peoples a chance to make their own voices heard, and to educate and inform mainstream society while preserving and enriching their own varied cultures and lifeways.

Native American Contributions to the Humanities
Native Americans have made countless contributions to the humanities. These contributions include oral literary traditions, art, sculpture, beadwork, music, poetry and literature. This resource guide gives an introduction to the numerous influences on the arts by Native Americans. .

Native Americans
Do you study Native Americans in your classroom? This guide highlights great Web sites that include exhibits, maps, and timelines about Native Americans. As your students study different tribes such as the Hopi, Navajo and Ute, have them do some of their research on-line. As Lewis and Clark explored, they came across over 50 different tribes

North American Native Science
Most of the Native American nations had a well-developed understanding of practical astronomy, healing, and ecology. They viewed the world as an ecological system where Man and Nature were not separate but unified, and this unification was by logical, not economic necessity. The resources in this guide give a few glimpses into this worldview.

Hopi woman dressing hair of unmarried girl

Native American Words in English
"Skunk" is Algonguian and "Shark" is Mayan. Find others in this list of words and origin languages.

Lone Bear (Tar-lo), a Kiowa, dressed as an Osage boy with paint stripes on forehead

Moving Beyond Stereotypes
Many students, when they think of Native Americans, visualize the image of Native Americans at the 1st Thanksgiving or in motion pictures. By leading them to information on Native Americans such as Jim Thorpe or current information about the nations, they'll gain a better understanding of the Native American culture.

America Before Columbus
After studying about Native Americans and how they lived before the colonists arrived in America, let the children role play what it would be like to be a Native American child who lived at that time.

Native Americans
These are the peoples who inhabited the Western Hemisphere before Columbus. It is thought that they originally migrated to the west from Asia. Native Americans were misnamed "Indians" by Columbus who thought he had reached India..

Native American Nation:
A Native America Nation can be the land occupied by a tribe or federation of Native Americans or the federation or tribe itself.

Powwow:
When Native Americans meet as a group, it is often called a Powwow. A Powwow can also refer to a Native American ceremony.