This new Native American Legal History timeline from Street Law is accompanied by inquiry packs that take deep dives into tribal sovereignty; religious freedom; multiculturalism; resistance, resilience, and reconciliation; and boarding schools. Teacher resources have also been added to the website to guide educators in using all the interactive timelines available at Legaltimelines.Org, including those on federalism, presidential powers, rights of the accused, students' rights, and suffrage. This timeline was piloted and strengthened by our Teacher Amicus Group which included teachers of significant Native American student populations. 

This interactive resource from an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Canada features a searchable map of Native territories, languages and treaties. 

How might you use this resource?

This open-source curricular resource was developed by Dan Eshet of Salem State University in partnership with The Organization of American Historians/National Park Service. It includes some sources from the Library, but could also be supplemented with additional LOC.gov resources. 

There are six chapters in the curricular resource (see below) along with suggested classroom strategies, a brief timeline, and a glossary.

1. Identity: Stereotypes and Choices
2. God, Greed, and Violence: Colonialism
3. War, Treaties, and Betrayal
4. The Legacy of the War of 1812
5. Indian Boarding Schools in the Age of Assimilation
6. Resilience and Resurgence

I've added this resource to this curated set - Primary Source Learning: Native American Perspectives.

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between the Library of Congress and GBH, has a new online exhibit that might be useful for classroom teachers and projects that use primary sources.

Native Narratives: The Representation of Native Americans in Public Broadcasting explores how Native American peoples and cultures have been represented both in non-Native-produced and Native-created public broadcasting programs in the AAPB collection. Each section features a range of radio and television programs that cover key events or issues important to Native peoples. Additionally, the exhibit explores how mainstream American public media and media produced by Native Americans depict and document Native peoples in ways that either confirm or reject stereotypes.

The exhibit was curated by Sally Smith, a former student assistant in the Peabody Awards Archive at the University of Georgia and a 2019 Library of Congress Junior Fellow in the Recorded Sound Section of the MBRS Division. She is a current MSLS student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Exhibit sections include the following:

• (Mis)representations of Native Americans
• Termination, Relocation, and Restoration
• The American Indian Movement
• Native Americans in Contemporary News Media
• Visual Sovereignty: Native Created Public Media

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This was created for a series of workshops being taught by me, Juliana Taken Alive of Sitting Bull College and Dan Conn from Minot State University. We are focusing on WWI to the present but feel free to add from earlier time periods if that is your interest.  Social Studies/History    Native Americans