Native American Heritage Month Resources
These resources are not just for November! Use them throughout the year, and ask your student’s teachers or principal about how they might use them in their school.
Native American Heritage Month and Thanksgiving Resources
Please honor the First People of this land. Remember: we are more than November!
Classroom Resources
- 2024 Native Heritage Month Teach-In (Teaching for Change)
- National Museum of the American Indian Resources
The entire school can…
- Consider hanging a Native American History Month banner
- Use the district-approved Land Acknowledgment
- Have building-wide read alouds
Teachers can learn more with these websites…
All books are at the AIRL or on Epic!
- All Grades – Shadow of the Salmon movie short and guide
- Kindergarten –
- We Are Grateful (book, video, read to me; ages 3 – 7)
- Grade 1 –
- Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (ages 3 – 6)
- Powwow Day (book, video; ages 4 – 8)
- Grade 2 –
- We Are Water Protectors (audiobook) (ages 3 – 6)
- Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message (audiobook; ages 7 – 8)
- All Grades – Learn about the Summer 2023 Paddle to Muckleshoot Canoe Journey
- All Grades – Learn about Washington Tribes Today (SPS PowerPoint)
- Advisory or Homeroom – Create a display with the Lushootseed place names in your school’s neighborhood using Native Seattle’s Seattle atlas with place names and/or The Burke Museum’s Waterlines Project
- Grade 6 –Watch and discuss Canoe Journey video collection.
- How Gift Giving Keeps Muckleshoot Culture Alive (2:55)
- Ed Carriere, Suquamish Tribe – spreading the canoe (3:08 – science)
- Create a Google slide or poster of an inductee to the Native American Hall of Fame
- Grade 7-Watch and discuss videos from our Treaty Tribes
- Fighting for Our Treaty Rights (4:23) + transcript
- Suquamish basket maker (2:55 – art)
- Learn how fractions impact tribal membership in Reservation Mathematics: Navigating Love in Native America photo essay (What is blood quantum? video)
- Grade 8 – Learn about our Treaty Tribes by watching and discussing videos:
- A History of the Muckleshoot Canoe Journey (3:25)
- Muckleshoot Canoe Awakening 2023 (2:52)
- Preparing for Paddle to Muckleshoot 2023 (1:25)
- Suquamish Tribe Shellfish Harvesting (3:52) Science
- Suquamish Harvesting the Best Clams on the West Coast (13:36) Science
- All Grades – Learn about the Summer 2023 Paddle to Muckleshoot Canoe Journey
- Advisory or Homeroom – Illuminative Changemakers lessons and posters
- Social Studies – Learn about our Treaty Tribes and their histories
- Math – The Economic & Community Benefits of Tribes in Washington
- Science –
- Read about habitat restoration and resource management in NW Treaty Tribes Magazine
- Art – Learn about Northwest Coast Formline Design
- English Language Arts – Learn about canoes and tradition.