Silenced & Underrepresented Voices
This is an interactive map of the world. You can type in where you are and it will show you which tribe's land you are on.
This is the website to the Idaho History Museum. It has lesson plans about Idaho tribes, access to traveling trunks, and virtual/in person field trips.
Portraits of people who have advocated for the equality and dignity of all, fifty portraits across multiple generations and struggles. The book features indigenous American people, but also the voices of many other marginalized groups.
Five compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of American environmental activists.
Americans Who Tell the Truth (AWTT) lessons show both how history shapes our lives and how students can be active citizens who work for the common good as they deepen their understanding of the world and move from art to action. Incorporated into the curriculum, they may be used as individual lessons or as a unit of learning activities.
A one week unit that scaffolds students into considering voices that might exist outside of their bubble.
~ Created by Andy Porter
Book of poems depicting a survivor of Minidoka Internment Camps experience dealing with and healing from his experience. Some pains take lifetimes to get through. Matsuda’s poems break for us all the Japanese-American code of silence toward the indignities of the nine U. S. government-mandated internment camps of WWII like Minidoka in Idaho where Matsuda was born.
This website is provided to help teachers integrate content about Native Americans in Idaho classrooms. All lessons are designed by Native American teachers.
A wealth of information about indigenous peoples and case studies by Amnesty International.
A great resource for purchasing books from diverse cultures, identities and experiences. A great selection and low prices. This resource is only for educators in the following settings: Title I or Title I-eligible School, USDA Food and Nutrition Program, Federally Qualified Health Center, Title VII recipient, Military family support program, Library with an E-rate of 90, A program primarily serving children with disabilities, A program where at least 70% of children come from low-income families, Head Start.
This book examines our history with racism and looks forward toward a future where racism is stamped out.
This assignment was used an Extension or Enrichment assignment for students that needed or wanted a challenge while reading Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate. The whole class was introduce to 10 current refugee crises around the globe as well as a list or refugee crises throughout history. Students could then choose one of the crises (or another of their choosing) to follow in the news. Students were given a tracker, list or reliable sources to use, and a final reflection sheet to connect it to the class novel.
These excerpts from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Woman, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants challenge the assumptions of white settlers in the United States by providing Indigenous understandings of two contentious issues: creation myths/genesis and scientific understand. These excerpts are beautifully written, making them ideal for an upper grade English class that is interested in multidisciplinary non-fiction, but could also be used in Environmental Science of Biology course that is interested in helping students create a more holistic view of the natural world. Kimmerer does not discount White settler's way of thinking-- instead, she shows what silenced Indigenous perspectives could offer to help connect contemporary Americans to the land and to themselves. "Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass" is a personal essay that explores how indigenous knowledge can enhance the academic science, while also showing the ways that it is silenced. "Skywoman Falling" is an indigenous creation story that Kimmerer uses as an allegory for differing perspectives of land and nature between indigenous and white settlers in the US.