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 nmeyer@ewu.edu http://research.ewu.edu/tribal

Rayette Sterling rsterling@ewu.edu http://research.ewu.edu/resourcelist

Project to be updated and online by May 2012

Key resource lists available now What's My Story?