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What's My Story?
Pacific Northwest Native American Youth Resources
Crystal Conant with Kale Nissen, Colville Confederated Tribes
Presentation WLA 2012
Project goals • Communication and Learning in Schools • Contribute to Place-Based Resources
Activity Today • Share about Native American Youth Resources • Share the Tribal Curriculum • Look at books
Finding the best resources for all schools, students,
children and adults working with children
Nadean Meyer
• Learning Resources Librarian EWU • Tribal Curriculum Trainer http://indian-ed.org • Resource guide http://research.ewu.edu/tribal • Former K-12 Teacher Librarian • Washington Library Media Assoc. (WLMA) Emeritus
Beginner in this topic but reading, listening and viewing many resources and learning so much by meeting tribal members. You are willing to share, I am trying to listen and learn
Rayette Sterling Outreach and Inclusion Librarian at EWU
• Resource Guide http://research.ewu.edu/american_indian • Library Liaison to American Indian Studies Program • Former Archives Librarian at the Northwest Museum
of Arts & Culture • Former Diversity Representative to Washington State
Library Council • Vice-Chair of Racial & Ethnic Diversity Committee of
the Association of College and Research Libraries
What's My Story: Native American Youth Resources
• ALA Carnegie-Whitney Publication Grant
• Creating online access to list of youth resources by Spring 2012
• Visiting cultural centers and museums
• Working with tribal consultants
GOAL Quality, accurate resource list of books, dvds, people and websites.
Discussion: Common Images for American Indian Unit
What comes to mind as the image most shown to represent the regions? Northwest Coastal? Inland Plateau?
Most Used?
Totem Pole Chief Joseph
From Where the Sun Rises
"Indian education dates back to a time when all children were identified as gifted and talented. Each child had a skill and an ability that would
contribute to the health and vitality of the community. Everyone in the community helped to identify and cultivate these skills and abilities.
The elders were entrusted to oversee this sacred act of knowledge being shared. That is
our vision for Indian education." 2008 WSU Clearinghouse on Native Teaching and Learning
From Where the Sun Rises
From Where the Sun Rises: Addressing the Educational Achievement of Native Americans in Washington State • Data gap as well as lower scores • 74% of Washington districts have missing data about
academic performance of Native youth
• "Much of it simply starts with acknowledging that Native people have a language, culture, and history"
• Well-being of Native youth • Benefits of appropriate curriculum for both Native and non-
Native youth
2008 WSU Clearinghouse on Native Teaching and Learning
Since Time Immemorial
• Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum Washington State • 2005 - Legislature "all school districts SHOULD include" • Aligned with Social Studies GLEs, units, CBAs
http://indian-ed.org
• Integrated in curriculum standards - online • Place-based • Inquiry-based • Connections with all local tribes • “No excuses” Curriculum
Curriculum - Online
Units of Study Aligned
Overlay Maps and Videos
Essential Questions for Understanding
1. How does physical geography affect NW tribe's culture, economy, and where they choose to settle and trade?
2. What is the legal status of the tribes who negotiated or who did not enter into United States treaties?
3. What were the political, economic, and cultural forces that led to the treaties?
4. What are the ways in which tribes responded to the threats and outside pressure to extinguish their cultures and independence?
5. What have local tribes done to meet the challenges of reservation life? What have these tribes, as sovereign nations, done to meet the economic and cultural needs of their tribal communities?
Schools and Tribes
36 our of 295 districts - 12% Relationship with local tribes (2008)
MOA OSPI WSSDA and Tribes for : • Collaboration • Government-to-governement • Achievement gap • Federally recognized tribes guidelines
Washington School Director's Toolkit http://www.wssda.org/Resources/TrainingMaterials/TribalHistoryandCulture.aspx
Toolkit
• Introduction from WSSDA President Deborah Heart • Overview of SHB 1495 • Full Text of SHB 1495 • List of Tribal Nations in Washington State • List of Washington School Districts and Nearest Federally Recognized Tribes • Protocol Considerations • Sample School Board Letter to Tribal Leaders • Sample School Board Resolution Regarding Tribal History Curricula • Sample Memorandum of Agreement • Sample Policy & Procedure: Curriculum Development/Instructional Materials • List of Resources
CCBS Statistics over Last Decade- NA Books approx. 5000 trade books per year
CCBC Native American Books approx. 5000 books per year
Washington State is Artificial Boundary
Maps show some of the complexity • Languages • Historical • Modern Day Reservations and Land
What boundaries make the most sense? • Interior British Columbia? • Coast British Columbia? • Coast Oregon? • Interior Oregon and Idaho? • Northwestern Montana?
Washington State Historical Society- Languages
http://stories.washingtonhistory.org/treatytrail/context/homelands.htm
Cascadia
Inland Plateau Map
Coastal Salish Map
Handouts http://research.ewu.edu/resourcelist
Some key recommended current resources for • Preschool-elementary • Middle - high school • Professional
• Across Washington • Pan-Indian and Urban • Northwest Coastal • Inland Plateau
Across Washington State
Inland Plateau - Eastern Washington
Salish and Salahadin
Northwest Coastal - Western Washington
Coastal Salish, Makah, Chinook
Urban -- Pan-Indian -- Modern Day
National Museum of the American Indian-Smithsonian
• Resources Lists – older mid-1990s
• Teaching Resources
• Book Series – My Worl describes five contemporary Native communities from the perspective of their young people 9–12 years old.
• Book Series- Tales of the Peoples o series for 4–8-year-olds that celebrates Native cultures with
illustrations and stories by Indian artists and writers
Book Sources
Oyate http://oyate.org Native Quest http://nativequest.net
formerly McRae's Books
GoodMinds http://goodminds.com Theytus http://www.theytus.com/
Yearly lists from British Columbia Publishers and Montana Superintendent of Schools
Links on our guide
Bi-Annual Youth Award American Indian Librarian Association http://www.ailanet.org/activities/youthlitaward.htm 3 age groups --- Across the continent
2012 Winners Christmas Coat Free Throw and Triple Threat Pipestone
Honor books too - 7 titles
10 great books to acquire now!
Evaluating Youth Resources Doris Seale, Bev Slapian, Debbie Reese, American Indian Library Association, Dee Almeida (American Indian Studies at EWU) Debbie Reese Blog- American Indians Children's Literature http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/ 2006-present OSPI guides 9/09 http://www.k12.wa.us/equity/pubdocs/WashingtonModelsfortheEvaluationofBias.pdf
Misunderstandings
• Lack of Knowledge • Misrepresentation • Bias • Gaps in information
National Museum of American Indian stereotype quiz http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/files/StereotypesQuiz.pdf
Opposite Approaches
Native non-Native
Books with Issues - Agree?
Making Connections
• Visit centers and attend events • Listen to Native Americans in each area • Learn more about Washington State history through tribal eyes • Listen to students and engage them • National organizations and blogs
Montana experience Alaska experience
Washington State Tribal Museums
Tribal Consultants
• Asking 6 tribal consultants to review our discoveries • Helping us understand the culture
• NorthWest Coastal -- 3 • Inland Plateau -- 3
• Educators or cultural experts • Knowledge of different age levels
Role of Librarians?
Finding things • Standard Sources • Small Presses
Organizing things • Lists, subjects • WorldCat access a copy
We can be a bridge for non-Native educators to start their own
learning
Issues to Consider
Availability- Out of Print?
Currency- Last Ten Years?
Tribal Author/Illustrator?
Which issues mean that it should not be used or suggested?
Supporting Student Success Washington State Library
2011 – 21 joint projects with Washington State
Public Libraries and Schools and often Tribes about the Tribal Curriculum
Last Year of Grant but many libraries are posting their projects and resources
Some tribal resources kits, visits and visitors, online resources and homework help notebooks
Northwest Indian Reading Series
http://educationnorthwest.org/resource/1112 Includes full text for 1972 project 140 stories many are from Western Washington Tribes
NW Indian Reading Series
http://educationnorthwest.org/resource/1112 Includes fulltext for 1972 project tribes include: • Warm Springs • Muckelshoot • Skokomish • Kootenai • Yakama • Salish • Jamestown Klallam
many copies are listed in Wayfinder too
OSPI Native American Reading Curriculum CD from OSPI Online Videos at NEA Booklets
Eaglecrest Readers (First Peoples Canada)
International Children’s Digital Library http://en.childrenslibrary.org • Out of Print but Available Digitally
• Seya’s Song • People of Salmon and Cedar
Beta Sample
Search "Yakama"
Our Plans for Resource Lists
Preschool- Elementary Middle - High School Adult-Professional
Inland Plateau Northwest Coastal Urban and Pan-Indian
Online- Print- Media- People Available at http://research.ewu.edu/tribal
TAB What's my story? Searchable database by Spring 2012
Trial to Try and give comments
Updates and Links, http://research.ewu.edu/resourcelist
Wayfinder: Washington State Libraries names closest library to borrow books
http://www.sos.wa.gov/library/libraries/projects/wayfinder.aspx
WorldCat, http://worldcat.org shows entire catalog without Washington emphasis. Allows for creation of booklists- our backup system you can friend.
WorldCat Booklists to Share
Eastern Washington University Libraries
Nadean Meyer [email protected] http://research.ewu.edu/tribal
Rayette Sterling [email protected] http://research.ewu.edu/resourcelist
Project to be updated and online by May 2012
Key resource lists available now What's My Story?