Indigenous Peoples' Day
Indigenous Peoples' Day
Selected resources for teaching Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Position Statements
Toward Responsibility: Social Studies Education that Respects and Affirms Indigenous Peoples and Nations
Social Education May/June 2018From NCSS Journals
Social Education
Designing and Teaching a Critical Inquiry: Lessons Learned
A teacher of second-grade students in an economically disadvantaged and racially and linguistically marginalized elementary school, shares her experience carrying out an inquiry-focused lesson about Indigenous People’s Day.
Now You Can’t Just Do Nothing: Unsettling the Settler Self within Social Studies Education
Promising practices offer educators opportunities to confront the perspective of white settler colonialism that has permeated the study of the history of Indigenous peoples.
Beyond La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María: The Invention and Mental Mapping of the New World
Approaching the encounter between Europe and the Americas as an intellectual rather than a physical discovery enables students to go beyond memorization to gain an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance ways of acquiring knowledge.
Charting the Land of Flowers: Exploration and Mapmaking in Spanish Florida
Two key maps that show the known world from the European perspective before Christopher Columbus's voyages illustrate the knowledge of intellectuals of that period and reveal tales of exploration, conflict, and change.
Social Studies and the Young Learner
Women’s Suffrage: Teaching Voting Rights using Multiple Perspectives and Timelines
In order to promote inclusive social studies, this article describes how upper-level elementary students can learn about the Women’s Suffrage Movement and how it intersects with the experiences of other marginalized Americans persevering to obtain the right to vote.
Beyond Pocahontas: Learning from Indigenous Women Changemakers
When Shirley Chisholm (in 1972) and then Hillary Clinton (in 2008, and again in 2016) ran for president, there was great excitement. Indeed, electing the “first woman” to the Office of the President would be an important milestone. Yet, ndigenous women have long held positions of leadership, including the position of President, Chairperson, or Chief, among other titles, within their Native nations.
In this unit of study, we describe how students in grades 3–5 can learn about and from Indigenous women changemakers and their professions, communities, and Native nations.
Pullout: Indigenous Sovereignty in the News
Student Handouts for reasearching current issues dealing with indigenous sovereigenty.
Affirming Indigenous Sovereignty: A Civics Inquiry
Indigenous sovereignty is an essential component of civics education. Historical and contemporary examples of infringements on the sovereign rights of Native nations exist, in part, due to the disregard of tribal sovereignty, nationhood, and citizenship. Given the aims of inquiry leading to informed action, we see a strong fit for using the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework as an entry to instructional planning about Indigenous sovereignty for upper elementary social studies. In this article, the authors outline a four-part unit that incorporates academic keywords, provides a foundation for understanding Indigenous sovereignty, and deliberates current events related to sovereignty.