California has taken a historic step in education with the release of the Native American Studies Model Curriculum (NASMC), the first state-funded, TK-12 standards-aligned curriculum dedicated to ...
Mary Oxendine grew up in Robeson County, NC, among the Lumbee people. As a child of multigenerational farmers, she grew up picking peas and butterbeans, working with her grandmother making sausages, ...
PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Jeanette Kiokun, the tribal clerk for the Qutekcak Native Tribe in Alaska, doesn't immediately recognize the shriveled, brown plant she finds on the shore of the Salish Sea or ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Joseph Lee, an author and freelance journalist, is a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe from Martha’s Vineyard in ...
ONEIDA - In early October, I watched the sun set over a field of corn on the Oneida reservation in northeast Wisconsin. Next to me, members of the tribe's white corn co-op chatted with a PhD student ...
There is a mushroom whose beige caps grow wild in the mountains of western North Carolina. When plucked, their broken stems well up with milky droplets. To untrained eyes, the edible fungi can be ...
Becoming a Native Knowledge 360° Educator: New Mexico (Navajo Treaty of 1868), Middle School session How do we teach about treaties and their relevance today? In this professional development program, ...
Two assistant professors from the University of Arizona’s College of Education believe the obstacles Native students face have to do with the values, experiences and languages they are exposed to in ...
In Session 4 of this four-part workshop series, teachers explored the intersection of Indigenous activism and poetry and prose. Special guest Laura Da’ (Eastern Shawnee) guided teachers through a set ...
MOLE LAKE, Wis. – In late August, Robert Van Zile Jr. looked out over Rice Lake with dismay. Brown spot disease had decimated this year's wild rice crop. The lake is home to the last remaining wild ...
Around the world: Philippine Indigenous groups work to restore the forest under a new program, a search finds 114 unmarked graves at McIntosh Indian Residential School in Canada, and a renowned ...