Resources for Native Youth and Community Work

This site was developed under the auspices of the US Department of Education's Native Scholars Projects* at San Diego State University to support graduate student learning about background issues, from history and culture, to education policy and ethics, essential to culturally responsive work with Native youth and communities. The site also features lesson plans designed to build resilience with youth which integrate Common Core Standards and critical thinking, and provide teaching resources.

We welcome community members and educators to use the site and to provide feedback to us on our community input page .

Kumeyaay Land Acknowledgment

We stand upon a land that carries the footsteps of millennia of Kumeyaay people. They are a people whose traditional lifeways intertwine with a worldview of earth and sky in a community of living beings. This land is part of a relationship that has nourished, healed, protected and embraced the Kumeyaay people to the present day. It is part of a world view founded in the harmony of the cycles of the sky and balance in the forces of life. For the Kumeyaay, red and black represent the balance of those forces that provide for harmony within our bodies as well as the world around us.

As students, faculty, staff and alumni of San Diego State University we acknowledge this legacy from the Kumeyaay. We promote this balance in life as we pursue our goals of knowledge and understanding. We find inspiration in the Kumeyaay spirit to open our minds and hearts. It is the legacy of the red and black. It is the land of the Kumeyaay.