Teacher's Guides

Teacher's guides for An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People are now available! Below are links to them (they are on the website of Beacon Press). You can download a pdf of each.

We're grateful to Dr. Natalie Martinez of Laguna Pueblo for creating them. Dr. Martinez is on the teaching faculty at the University of New Mexico, in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociology.

When approached about finding someone to do the guide, Debbie thought that Dr. Alice Nash would be able to recommend someone. For several years, Dr. Nash has received National Endowment for the Humanities grants to offer Teaching Native American Histories institutes for teachers during the summer. She recommended Dr. Martinez.

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Teachers' Guide to An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States for Young People. Scroll down to find the link to download the pdf.

Origin Narrative: Thanksgiving supports chapter 3, Cult of the Covenant.

History of Indigenous Peoples' Day supports chapter 10, Indigenous Action, Indigenous Rights.

Indigenous Perseverance: Wampanoag Survival 400 Years After the Mayflower expands on the concepts of resistance and survival presented in the introduction, chapters 2 and 7, and the conclusion.