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Native American Themes in Childrens Books
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Native American Themes in Children and Young Adult Books
Overall, children's and young adult books with Native American Indian characters and themes have improved dramatically since I was a kid. We have a lot more to pick from than the Sacajewea and Pocahontas biographies, the tales of "savagery" on the Prairie.
Looking at those writers who've focused a significant portion of their work in this area, Native authors as well as non-Native authors with strong community ties (or those who did their homework), it's clear that there are some quality books now available.

Marilee's Native Americans Resource
http://marilee.us/nativeamericans.html
Marilee's Native Americans Resource
If you want to learn about Native Americans as they were before the Europeans arrived, it helps to divide the continent into ten culture groups ....

American Indian Library Association
http://aila.library.sd.gov/publications/inotindian.htm
American Indian Library Association
Over the years, the most frequently asked questions by librarians concerning books on Native Americans have centered around the ideas of "How can I personally tell good books on Indians from bad?" and "Where can I find reliable reviews?".

Support Native American Art
http://www.support-native-american-art.com/
A web site to increase awareness of the rich diversity of Native American arts and crafts, to help in acquiring these works, and help preserve this unique cultural heritage.

Department of the Interior Motion Pictures
http://video.google.com/nara.html
Department of the Interior Motion Pictures .. films online at Google.
e.g. Rebuilding Indian Country Reel 1, maps show the origin and history of the American Indian. Modern Indians work ...

Tribal (American Indian) websites
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/nations.html
Tribal (American Indian) websites
This section contains links to pages that have either been set up by the nations themselves, or are pages devoted to a particular nation,

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
"The purpose of the organization shall be to promote study, criticism, and research on the oral traditions and written literatures of Native Americans; to promote the teaching of such traditions and literatures; and to support and encourage contemporary Native American writers and the continuity of Native oral traditions."

American Indians in Childrens Literature
http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/
American Indians in Childrens Literature

Stereotyping Native America
http://138.23.124.165/exhibitions/stereotyping/default.lasso
The exhibit Stereotyping Native America features turn of the 20th Century stereographs of Native Americans from the UCR/CMP’s Keystone-Mast collection, photographs from the Adam Clark Vroman collection, as well as a mural by Ben Benashley, a White Mountain Apache student at Sherman Indian High School in Riverside.
The goal of the exhibit is to showcase how, around the turn of the 20th century, photographic convention dictated Native Americans be portrayed according to mainstream American typologies.
Natives were represented as noble hunters and squaws; as people who lived in teepees; and as people who wore feathers, buckskins and beads.

Directory of North American Indian portal websites
http://www.firstnationsseeker.ca
First Nations Seeker: Directory of North American Indian portal websites.
Visit Native American and First Nation communities across North America!

Oyate
http://www.oyate.org
Oyate is a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that all people will know our stories belong to us.
For Native children, it is as important as it has ever been for them to know who they are and what they come from. It is a matter of survival.
For all children, it is time to learn the truth of history. Only in this way will they come to have the understanding and respect for each other that now, more than ever, will be necessary for life to continue.
Our work includes evaluation of texts, resource materials and fiction by and about Native peoples; conducting of teacher workshops, in which participants learn to evaluate children's material for anti-Indian biases; administration of a small resource center and library; and distribution of children's, young adult, and teacher books and materials, with an emphasis on writing and illustration by Native people.

Native American Symbols
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/native-american-symbols.html
Native American Symbols
Native American symbols offer us a complete and reverent language of life, nature, and spirit. This language is unmatched in it's depth and power.
This language derives it's power from the fact that American Indians viewed all things - whether seen or touched - living or inanimate - as possessors of a spirit.
Native American Animal Symbols | Identifying Animal Tracks | Animal Tracks Embroidery | Native American Sun Symbols | Sun Symbol Embroidery | Hopi Symbols | Hopi Symbol Embroidery | Kachina Properties | Kachina Embroidery | Sioux Symbols | Mayan Symbols | Native American Mandala |

Symbols used in Native American arts and crafts
http://www.buckagram.com/buck/symbols/
Symbols used in Native American arts and crafts
The descriptions and definitions have come from traditional stories, opinions of artists & reservation traders and from books

Animal Totems and Earth Medicine
http://wolfs_moon.tripod.com/NativeSymbols.html
Life Paths | Animal Totems and Earth Medicine | Symbols of the Indian Nation |

Native American Symbolism
http://www.indiansun.net/symbols_animals.htm
Native American Symbolism
Indian Sun has provided this list of general Native American symbolism to help guide you in your understanding of the images used in the pieces that may interest you.
Please keep in mind that meanings vary greatly between tribes and this list simply an overview of animal and symbol imagery.

Native American Clipart
http://www.school-clip-art.com/native_american_clipart.shtml
These Native American Clipart are brought to you by Clip Art, Inc. and can be used for educational purposes.

Encyclopedia of North American Indians
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_000107_entries.htm
Encyclopedia of North American Indians

Evaluating American Indian Web Sites
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ecubbins/webcrit.html
Techniques for Evaluating American Indian Web Sites
The purpose of this Web page is to provide some guidelines useful for evaluating and identifying Web sites that contain accurate information and that are not exploitative of American Indians. Note that these guidelines are not all inclusive nor are they foolproof. Web site evaluation must also include the knowledge that one already has about Native peoples and brings to the Web. If you don't know if a site is presenting accurate information, find a source that you trust, online or offline, and compare what you find there with what you find in the Web site.

Native American WebQuest
http://www.cpsed.net/~edgwood/webquest/natamer/index.htm
Native American Web Quest
Use the Internet resource page to explore and identify a Native American tribe that your teacher has assigned your group. In your research, gather as much information as you need.

Collaborative Thematic Unit : Native Americans
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Native.htm
Collaborative Thematic Unit : Native Americans
To introduce children to the culture of a variety of Native American tribes through literature and related activities.

American Indians
http://www.42explore2.com/native.htm
American Indians
American Indians, sometimes called Native Americans, are descendants of the first people to live in the Americas. They had been living there for thousands of years before any Europeans arrived.

Indian Circle Web Ring
http://www.indiancircle.com/index.shtml
Indian Circle Web Ring - Links to tribal homepages.

National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.nmai.si.edu/
National Museum of the American Indian
The opening of this museum marks a unique cultural achievement as Native Americans from North, Central, and South America realize a long-awaited dream to share and honor their vibrant cultures with visitors from throughout the world.

Native American Images
http://www.nativeamericanlinks.com/
Native American Images is a web "magazine" devoted to the images of Native American People, Places and Land. It is intended to inform you, inspire you, entertain you. If you are a student of Native American Studies, hopefully Native American Images will be a useful resource to you.

Native American Web Sites
http://www.hillelday.org/nativeamericans.html
Native American Web Sites used by Y5 / fifth graders.

Native Americans - Searching for Knowledge and Understanding
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/native_americans/index.html
Native Americans - Searching for Knowledge and Understanding
In this lesson students will study Native Americans in order to become familiar with the contributions to and influences on American society particularly, but not exclusively, in the Western region of the United States. This lesson will focus on some of the cultural history, writings and symbols of the southwestern tribes.

Create Your Own Native American Board Game
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/nativeamericans/
Create Your Own Native American Board Game
Students analyze basic elements of a selected Native American tribe in order to apply them to the creation of an original board game that can be played by children.

The Land and People Before Columbus
http://www.history.ctaponline.org/center/hsscm/index.cfm?Page_Key=1309
The Land and People Before Columbus
Students describe the major pre-Columbian settlements including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi River, in terms of .....

American Memory Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/indian/resources.html
American Memory Collections from The Library of Congress : American Indians

Contact with Native North Americans : Lesson Plans
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/snapshots.htm
Contact with Native North Americans : Lesson Plans from LearningCurve

Native Americans
http://www.thewildwest.org/native_american/index.html
In our section related to Native Americans or American Indians, you'll find information about society, religion, Native Americans wisdom, American Indians arts and crafts and the special places related to their culture. In Native Americans art you'll read about basket weaving, dance, kachinas, Hopi crafts, Navajo weaving buying tips, American Indians jewelry and an introduction into the styles and purchasing of Native Americans pottery.

Native American Culture
http://emints.more.net/ethemes/resources/by-grade.shtml
Native American Culture

NativeWeb
http://www.nativeweb.org/
NativeWeb - Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World

Native Americans
http://www.deweybrowse.org/native_americans.htm
Native Americans

Native Americans list on the Librarians Index
http://lii.org/search?query=Indians+of+North+America;searchtype=subject
Native Americans list of websites and resources on the Librarians Index

Oyate
http://www.oyate.org/
Oyate is a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that all people will know our stories belong to us. For Native children, it is as important as it has ever been for them to know who they are and what they come from. It is a matter of survival. For all children, it is time to learn the truth of history. Only in this way will they come to have the understanding and respect for each other that now, more than ever, will be necessary for life to continue.

The Wild West - Native Americans
http://www.thewildwest.org/native_american/index.html
Although the freedom of their ancient way of life has been lost, the religion, culture, legends, and spirit of the American Indian will always endure. Learn more about the Apache, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pueblo tribes. Read about native legends, heroes, leaders (like Geronimo), and great battles (like Custer's Army's last stand). And understand the religions of the Blackfoot Indians and the Cheyenne, who Kachinas are, and the background of The People (Navajo history).

Circle of Stories
http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/
Circle of Stories uses documentary film, photography, artwork and music to honor and explore Native American storytelling.

Native American History
http://library.lhs.usd497.org/nativeam.htm
Native American History

Native Americans & Abenaki Indians of New Hampshire
http://www.mrsd.org/~library/nativeam.htm
The Native American Indians that lived in New Hampshire were part of the Algonquian Indian family and included the Abenaki and the Pennacook. The Abenakis included the Pequawket and the Ossipee. The Pennacooks included the Amoskeag, Nashua, Piscataqua, Souhegan, and Squamscot. The Abenaki nation was a member of the Wabanaki Confederacy that controlled much of New England and the Canadian Maritimes.