students value and respect diverse ways of knowing about the world

students engage with texts from a variety of cultures to explore different ideas, perspectives, and interpretations of the world

students recognize how language and text record and preserve the history and expressions of cultures

Native Skywatchers

Annette S. Lee

One Sky, Many Worlds Exhibition

One Sky Project

Star story videos from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Birchbark Books

First Voices

Montana Skies Blackfeet Astronomy

• • • Blackfeet Star Story videos

Montana Skies Crow Astronomy

• • • Crow Star Story videos

The Forever Sky, by Thomas Peacock

How Things Came to Be: Inuit Stories of Creation, by Rachel & Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley

The Star People: A Lakota Story, by S.D. Nelson

Tipiskawi Kisik: Night Sky Star Stories, by Wilfred Buck

Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun: A Cherokee Story , by Geri Keams

The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee, by Barbara R. Duncan

They Dance in the Sky: Native American Star Myths, by Jean G. Monroe & Ray A. Williamson

The Day the Earth Rose up, by Alfreda Beartrack-Alego

Raven and the Tide Lady, by Michaela Goade

SkySisters, by Jan Bourdeau Waboose

Where We Come from, by Wilson, Shin, Gibney, Coy

Coyote in Love with a Star, by Marty Kreipe de Montano

Native American Stories for Kids, by Tom Pecore Weso

Talking Sky, by Carl Gawboy & Ron Morton

D(L)akota Star Map Constellation Guide, by Annette Lee, Jim Rock, Charlene O'Rourke

Ojibwe Sky Star Map Constellation Guide, by Annette Lee, W. Wilson, J. Tibbetts, C. Gawboy

Keepers of the Night, by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac

The Stars We Know: Crow Indian Astronomy and Lifeways, by Timothy P. McCleary

How the Morning and Evening Stars Came to Be, by Montana Historical Society Press

How the Summer Season Came, by Montana Historical Society Press

The Spirit of the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos, by Mark Hollabaugh

Lakota Star Knowledge: Studies in Lakota Stellar Theology, by Ronald Goodman

Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places, by Peter Nabokov

Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge, by Eldon Yellowhorn & Kathy Lowinger

Following My Spirit Home: A Collection of Paintings and Stories, by Sam Zimmerman

Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People, by Eldon Yellowhorn & Kathy Lowinger

Encyclopedia of American Indian History & Culture, by National Geographic 

Secret of the Stars, by Gitz Crazyboy

The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves, by Thomas D. Peacock

The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline

Hunting by Stars, by Cherie Dimaline

The Star that Always Stays, by Anna Rose Johnson

Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories, by Dan S. Jones

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, by Shane Hawk & Theodore Van Alst Jr.

skit/play

puppet show

shadow puppet show

write a collection of poems

written story

create visual art

museum-style exhibit

artwork with voice over video

star map

star box

presentation

podcast

design lesson & teach it

create a board game/card game

write a graphic novel