Curriculum Materials
 Preschool and Elementary School Teachers
Middle and High School Teachers
Preschool and Elementary School Teachers
Background Articles and Information
Fast Facts about American Indians
Time Line: American Indians in North Carolina
Legend: Sequoyah, Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet
State Flower: Dogwood
State Fruit: Scuppernong Grape; State Vegetable: Sweet Potato
Legends and Myths: The "Three Sisters"
Teaching Young Children about Native Americans
Teaching about Thanksgiving
Flags of the Native Peoples of the United States
Classroom Activities
American Indian Discovery Tour
Traditional Cherokee Pottery
Catawba, The River People Video
Catawba, the River People Video Activity Guide
Colonial North Carolina History in a Box
First Americans for Grade Schoolers
American Indian Recipes
Native Tech
Canku Ota: An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
Books and Magazines
Children of the Longhouse, by Joseph Bruchac
The First Strawberries, by Joseph Bruchac
Indian Shoes, by Cynthia L. Smith
Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia L. Smith
Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children,edited by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale
Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine, American Indian issue (Contact Tar Heel Junior Historian Association Coordinator Jessica Humphries for more information or to obtain copies for $2 each.)
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Middle and High School Teachers
Articles and Information
General
Time Line: American Indians in North Carolina
Fast Facts about American Indians
The First People of North Carolina
The State and Its Tribes
First Immigrants: Native American Settlement of North Carolina
The Arts
A Conversation with Artist Joel Queen
American Indian Storytelling
Cherokee Basketry
Indian Cabinetmakers in Piedmont North Carolina
Inside the Contemporary Powwow
Native Tech
The National Portrait Gallery: American Indians
Southern Powwows
Politics and History
A Look at the Trail of Tears
Longtime Chief of the Waccamaw-Siouan: Priscilla Freeman Jacobs
Nancy Ward: "War Woman" of the Cherokee
The Klu Klux Klan in North Carolina and the Battle of Maxton Field
Double Voting" in Robeson County: A Reminder of an Unequal Past
With Deliberate Speed: North Carolina and School Desegregation
Assigned Places
The N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs
The Occaneechi People: Experiencing a Cultural Renaissance
Henry Berry Lowry Lives Forever
North Carolina’s American Indians in World War II
Communities of Faith: American Indian Churches in Eastern NC
What We Can't Do Alone, We Can Do Together
Sports
A Look at Stickball
Stickball podcast
Jim Thorpe
Education
“Respect and Encourage the Individual": Learning among the Lumbee
A Look at the Cherokee Language
Laying the Foundation: American Indian Education in North Carolina
Legend: Sequoyah, Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet
Classroom Activities
How About Some Recognition?
The Math of Removal
Tsali and the Trail of Tears
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