Educator Resources

These are Indigenous educator resources. I encourage you to scale up or scale down so we can reach all learners from pre-K to grad school! If you have additional resources, please email me at sauyaq [at] outlook.com so we can spread the knowledge! 

Alaska Specific 

• Many resources: 

• Culturally Based Curriculum Resources – Alaska Native Knowledge Network 

• Alaska Native Culture Curriculum Resources – Anchorage Museum 

• TeacherTools - Space for Alaska educators to have conversations, share resources, ask for guidance, and access See Stories’ FREE curriculum resources

• Alaska Studies Resource Hub - Lesson plans and activities you have developed for your AK Studies classes and other resources that are connected to teaching and learning about Alaska.

• Science and Place: 

• Chugach Region Science Curriculum – Chugach Regional Resources Commission  

• Cultural Connections to Alaska Science – University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute 

• Alaska Native Science: A Curriculum Guide – Dolly Garza 

• Upper Kuskokwim: Environmental Preservation Lifeways – Doyon Foundation 

• Math: 

• Math in a Cultural Context – Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD) Indigenous Education Department  

• Language/Culture: 

• Chugachmiut Heritage Preservation Curriculum 

• Seal Dance Lesson 

• Culture and Language Resources 

• Library and Archive 

• Filmed Language Summit 2025

• Kodiak Alutiiq Language Textbook 

• Kodiak Oral History Project

• Nanwalek Oral History

• Sealaska Heritage 

• The Native Village of Afognak Oral Histories

• Project Jukebox Alaska

• UAF Oral History Program

• Documentaries: 

• We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska l Al Jazeera

• Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

• ReVision Alaska: Indigenous Resistance Now & Then

• This Is The Story Of Alaska Natives' Fight For Their Land [Our Fight To Survive, Pt. 1] |

• Fighting To Save The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) [Our Fight To Survive, Pt. 2] 

• Uncivilized Films - Alaska‑based filmmaking 

  • • • Duck In — A short Alaska documentary about the community’s fight to protect their rights to hunt ducks.

      • Project Chariot — A documentary about the U.S. plan to detonate nuclear bombs on the Alaska coast to create an artificial harbor, and the Iñupiat resistance that stopped it.

      • Voices from the Cape — A film amplifying youth and community storytelling from Cape communities, centering Indigenous voice, creativity, and local strength.

      • Voice of Our Spirit — A community‑rooted film highlighting Indigenous cultural knowledge, identity, and the resilience carried through story and practice.

•  Podcasts

• Arctic Together

• Coffee and Quaq

US Wide

• General: 

• American Indians in Children's Literature 

• Culturally- Based Curriculum: Digital Resources for Schools, Teachers, Parents and Students – National Indian Education Association 

• Healthy Native Youth - Many Health Curricula

• Native Knowledge 360 – National Museum of the American Indian 

• Teaching about Indigenous Peoples and Identifying Resources Guide 

• Wisconsin First Nations collected resources, lessons, teaching materials, and more 

• Science and Place: 

• Indigenous Chicago Curriculum 

• Lessons of Our Land – Indian Land Tenure Foundation 

• Understanding Native Americans in Minnesota 

  •  Podcasts

• All My Relations

• AMERICAN GENOCIDE, podcast about the crimes of Native American boarding schools.

• Native Circles

• Native Opinion

• The Red Nation Podcast

• This Land

• Tribal Health

• Young and Indigenous