Here you’ll find workshops, reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring Native poetics to your community, home, classroom, relatives, and friends.
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Oklahoma Kidlit
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Oklahoma Kidlit 〰️
NDN Girls Book Club presents a reading list of children’s lit authors in Oklahoma! This list is not exhaustive— merely an introduction to the world of Indigenous literature and stories that are currently published by authors belonging to tribes and/or groups from Oklahoma.
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skadugi: an anthology
These workshops ask how community can reflect on their identities, bodies, and places of home to locate autonomy and sovereignty within themselves. W/ a lesson plan & accompanying anthology by Cherokee writer qweli fourkiller.
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Short Poem Lesson Plans
These short lesson plans ask, “What do we know about poetry? How can we make poems?” Featuring works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Joy Harjo, and Laura Gilpin, assembled by Cherokee writer qweli fourkiller.
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Children's Reading List
Book Riot’s recommendations for 9 Native Picture Books, approved by our Book Club!
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Birchbark Books
Are you an educator looking to add more Native voices to your classroom syllabus, reading lists, or lesson plans? Birchbark Books in MN is Native-owned and offers a teacher discount, vends school districts, and has a helpful education specialist.
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NMAI's Worksheet for Collecting Indigenous Literature
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Dialogue Toolkit for Educators
NMAI’s resource for non-Native educators is a guide for the many parts of their museum, but also doubles as a discussion toolkit for their classroom. Grades 4-12.
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Indigenous Women, Two Spirit, & Indigiqueer Writers to Read
Here's a reading list from ROOM Magazine’s favourite Indigenous women, Two Spirit, and Indigiqueer writers.