This collection uses primary sources to explore The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.

Breaking the frame: Ways of Reading Native Photography

My OER showcases the use of Native American photography as a means of enabling students to connect with historical and contemporary Native issues. Using specific in-class exercises as examples I will show how Native photography addresses issues of racial identity, stereotypes, the sexualizing of Native bodies, and Native American history. I will discuss how the writing of the formal analysis of this photography as art also enables students to engage with the art through a reading that elucidates the contemporary lives of Native individuals and communities. The OER will show how interactive exploration of artistic meaning, and the messages therein, in Native photography leads to increased student intellectual awareness and understanding of the indigenous world around them.

This OER showcases the use of tools such as twitter, blogs, and other forms of social media, as a project for increasing cultural awareness in the classroom. These tools create spaces in the classroom for culturally responsive engagement between Native and non-Native students. Using contemporary indigenous activism as the focus of a semester-long project, I will discuss the steps taken to enable students to explore contemporary Native issues from indigenous perspectives. The ‘real-time’ environment of social media enables the students to engage with multiple indigenous perspectives in a pro-active, rather than passive, manner. The OER will also show how this exploration leads to increased student intellectual awareness and engagement with the indigenous world around them.

These activities highlight Native American games that build body and spirit through exercise. Washington Physical Education standards seen in these activities are identified. Though written here with an eye towards elementary level students, these games are played by all ages.Consultation, review, and feedback of the Native American Games unit was provided by: Rachel Sullivan-Owens, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Cultural Coordinator and Cindy Kelly, Lower Elwha S’Klallam Tribe WSSDA Tribal Ambassador.

In summary, Primary Source Documents on the Pueblo Revolt, 1680 includes indigenous testimonies about the historic 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico, which was then under Spanish rule. 

Objectives:
* Learn about Native American culture
* Introduce codependent plants (ecosystems)