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5 Tips for Teaching About American Indians
As a teacher or parent, you may love reading Native American folktales to your kids, or sharing your favorite books, like Little House on the Prairie or Brother Eagle, Sister Sky. It may be as normal...
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Seal or No Seal? Thinking Critically About the Canadian Seal Hunt
The seal hunt has begun again, with more seals than ever scheduled to be killed, and more complexity, due to climate conditions, fewer seals, the European ban, and more, so I thought that I’d repost...
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MOGO Heroes: 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners
Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize. We all need inspiration and motivation. We all need to believe that we can indeed change the world. This year’s Goldman Environmental Prize winners serve...
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American Indians in Children’s Literature
A blog established by university professor Debbie Reese, American Indians in Children’s Literature (AICL) “provides critical perspectives and analysis of indigenous peoples in children’s and young...
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Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
Although millions of American Indians lived in all parts of what is now the U.S., currently there are only 317 tribes remaining, holding only four percent of that land. Despite numerous treaties,...
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The Vine Basket
Merighul, a 14 year-old Uyghur girl, is forced to leave school and help her family when her brother leaves home. Now that she is not in school, Merighul is being watched closely by the local...
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Resources for Reexamining Columbus Day
Today is Columbus Day in the U.S., and this year, as in generations before, elementary schools all across the country will teach another group of children that, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue”...
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Unlearning “Indian” Stereotypes
“…books and movies tell lies about Native people.” A group of children from several different Indian nations talks about their experiences as American Indians and expresses their anger, sadness and...
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Resources for Exploring Issues About Native Americans and Other Indigenous...
by Marsha Rakestraw All you have to do is glance at the media to know that racism, stereotypes, and bias are alive and well in the U.S. And, while many ethnic groups endure these prejudices and...
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Seal or No Seal? Thinking Critically About the Canadian Seal Hunt
Every year in the spring, animal protection groups bring out the photos and video of adorable, precious, fuzzy seals…and pair them with gruesome images and video of men with clubs and of bloody seal...
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Humane Educator’s Toolbox: Unlearning Indian Stereotypes
Unlearning Indian Stereotypes by Council on Interracial Books for Children. Enhanced by Rethinking Schools. 2008. “…books and movies tell lies about Native people.” A group of children from several...
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Podcasts for Teaching About Racial Justice Issues
by Marsha Rakestraw Where did the concept of whiteness come from (and when)? How does our current US culture affect Indigenous standards of beauty? Was that thing that white politician/celebrity/person...
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