"Teaching Young Children about Native Americans", by Debbie Reese (Pueblo) (1996), EDO-PS-96-3. This is an ERIC Digest from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. This article provides guidance for teaching young children about Native Americans, with suggestions for positive strategies to use as well as practices to avoid. More ERIC digests concerning American Indians and Native Americans...
ERIC InfoGuide: Anti-bias materials and curricula related to American Indians for both mainstream and Indian classrooms (12/97)
From the web site, this InfoGuide's "primary purpose is to identify current information on American Indian culture and education that is presented accurately, respectfully and without stereotyping or prejudice." More ERIC InfoGuides...
Oyate
From the website, "Oyate is not a bookstore. 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. ... 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 chiildren's, young adult, and teacher books and materials, with an emphasis on writing and illustration by Native people."
Books to Avoid (from Oyate)
From the web site, "We do not recommend these books. To read a critical review that supports our position, click on the link below. These are not all of the books that we do not recommend; they are just some of the worst." From the Oyate web site.
Exploring American Indian Stereotypes
This page is a sample lesson plan on exploring American Indian stereotypes. It is part of a culture kit about Native Americans of the Great Lakes that can be rented from the Michigan Humanities Council.
Stereotypes/Racism
From the Indigenous Peoples' Literature web site.
Stereotypes
From the web site, "Here
we present a reading list for those who would like to learn about real
Native Americans, from Native American writers writing both fiction and
non-fiction. We hope you will gain a far better sense of who the people
who populated this continent before the invasion that began in 1492 occured.
We also include a page of links to Web sites which continue the long tradition
of Native American stereotypes." From the A
Line in the Sand web site.
Elaine
Cubbins's Techniques for Evaluating American Indian Web Sites
There's a lot of information,
good and bad, on the Internet. Use this page as a guideline to identify
Native American web sites that contain accurate and non-exploitative information.
This is part of the Web Resources for Tribal Libraries web site from Elaine
Cubbins at the University of Arizona.
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