Race & Social Justice Teacher Resources: Indigenous & Native American Experience

Information about the history and context of Indigenous Peoples' Day; Indigenous values and knowledge systems; educational resources; and, the 'Iolani School Campus Audio Tour highlighting Native Hawaiian history and culture.

Article by Sheyahshe Littledave
The Picture Show, NPR
June 6, 2021

"Featuring Native American art and culture, this award-winning quarterly magazine engages its readers with diverse articles about the fascinating and often overlooked histories of American Indian nations and the contemporary challenges facing Native peoples across the Western Hemisphere. From Alaska's Native villages to the Andean communities of South America, American Indian tells inspiring and enlightening stories illustrated with spectacular photography. Its "Explore the Museum" department highlights NMAI exhibitions, programs and online resources."

Hidden Brain Podcast
November 20, 2017
"This week on Hidden Brain, we explore an 'open secret': that from the time Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World until the year 1900, there were as many as five million Native people enslaved in America. We'll talk about this history, and the psychological reasons it was left unexamined for so long."
Audio (00:22:51) and transcript available.

"The Association was formed in 1922 to change the destructive path of federal policy from assimilation, termination and allotment, to sovereignty, ​self-determination and self-sufficiency. Throughout our more than 100-year history, we have provided national advocacy on watershed issues that support sovereignty and culture, while working at a grassroots level with Native Nations to support the implementation of programs that affect real lives on the ground."

"The Self-Determination Era is characterized by an explosion in civil rights activism. Beginning in the late 1960s, the Self-Determination Era ushered in a new wave of tribal leadership. Activists across the country used political, legal, and civil tactics to force the United States to reckon with its history of mistreatment toward Native Americans. This page outlines (1) 'The Rock' and the Red Power Movement, (2) Environmental Justice, (3) Preserving Indian Country, (4) Murdered and Missing Indian Women, and (5) Mascots."

Article by Gillian Kiley
February 15, 2017
"Study by Brown University historian finds that Native Americans who surrendered during King Philip’s War were sold into slavery, with long-lasting effects."
"... Native American slavery 'is a piece of the history of slavery that has been glossed over,' Fisher said..."

"For 40 years Cultural Survival has partnered with Indigenous communities around the world to defend their lands, languages, and cultures."

"In 2019, the editorial board invited Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Professor in the Department of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato. The address came twenty years after the first publication of her ground-breaking book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. In her opening remarks, editor in chief Micheala Benson noted that the book remains ‘fresh and relevant’ and that Smith’s work critiquing the hegemony as its reproduced through theory, knowledge and research is as important as it ever was.
Smith spoke to the title ‘Decolonising Methodologies, 20 Years On’, reflecting on how the book’s themes resonate in the contemporary academy, as well as what would be included in the book were it to have been written today. Smith opened with a poem, ‘Research Ethics and Indigenous Peoples 101’, which set the scene for a creative and urgent lecture on indigenous knowledges, and decolonisation struggles in all their intersecting forms."
[Recording, 1:01:58]

Society of American Archivists 2018 Diversity Award announcement summarizing the "Maya from the Margins" project.

"In countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and among tribal nations in the U.S., it is commonplace, even policy, to open events and gatherings by acknowledging the traditional Indigenous inhabitants of that land. While some individuals and cultural and educational institutions in the United States have adopted this custom, the vast majority have not. Together, we can spark a movement to change that.
We call on all individuals and organizations to open public events and gatherings with acknowledgment of the traditional Native inhabitants of the land."

"As a Haida cultural ambassador, traditional performer, master of ceremonies, writer and Indigenous guide, Cohen Bradley melds culture and tourism."
" 'I think of legacy as the weaving together of our stories passed on as a whole,' says Haida storyteller Cohen Bradley. Highlighting the significance of potlatch ceremonies (or gift-giving feasts) and other Indigenous traditions of the Haida Nation, Bradley shares why we all should prioritize our collective legacies -- and how they live on through the stories we tell."

"The Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 declared that Indigenous people were no longer considered members of “sovereign nations” and that the US government could no longer establish treaties with them. The act effectively made Native Americans wards of the US government and paved the way for other laws that granted the federal government increased power over the land and lives of Indigenous peoples."

Article by Audra Simpson
The Emancipator
November 17, 2022

While Indigenous podcast episode
November 16, 2018
"In precolonial Indigenous cultures, women occupied esteemed roles. Colonization changed a lot of that. Here, three Indigenous people from across the U.S. weigh in on the traditional roles of women in their respective Nations. They also share their thoughts on the recent historic election of the first two Native American women to Congress- Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk) and Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo)."
Guests: Stephanie Dressen (Navajo), Christina M. Castro (Jemez/Taos/Xicana), and Brandon Stevens (Oneida).
(audio, 00:30:06)

Article by Manvir Singh
The New Yorker
February 20, 2023
"Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who did come first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the concept escape its colonial past?"

John Sutter, born Johann Augustus Sutter is an historical figure of the Gold Rush (1849).
"Here, we focus on John Sutter and his impact on the Native communities of Sacramento then and now. Featured in the video are historian Albert Hurtado, author of "John Sutter: A Life on the American Frontier"; John Fraser, Capital District superintendent for California State Parks; Dahlton Brown, executive director of administration at Wilton Rancheria; Jesus Tarango, tribal chairman of Wilton Rancheria; and Nancy Jenner, curator of Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park."

Podcast episode by Hansi Lo Wang
Code Sw!tch (Switch) and All Things Considered
May 5, 2021
(audio, 00:03:00)

"Founded in 1944, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is the oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities."

"November is National American Indian Heritage Month The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans."

"Native News Online delivers important daily news that affects the lives of Native Americans nationwide. Founded in 2011, Native News Online reaches millions of Native and non-Native readers annually including American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and others interested in Native American concerns."

Blog of the NDN Collective
"Current events, editorials, and collaborative multimedia — from an Indigenous perspective."

By Dr. Andrés Reséndez
"... African slavery was surely a defining aspect of European colonialism in the Americas. But it was not the only one. Native Americans were subjected to a parallel system of bondage as degrading and vast as African slavery, a system that has nonetheless remained hidden and poorly understood. In our hemisphere, Indigenous slavery occurred in every major area, both predating and outlasting its African counterpart. During the four centuries between the arrival of Columbus and the beginning of the twentieth century, some 2.5 to 5 million Native people were enslaved..."
The commentary accompanied the virtual symposium (Sept. 24-27, 2021) - The Other Slavery: Histories of Indian Bondage from New Spain to the Southwestern United States
Presented by the Smithsonian Latino Center, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in association with the Smithsonian’s initiative, Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past.

"Still invisible and often an afterthought, Indigenous peoples are uniting to protect the world's water, lands and history -- while trying to heal from genocide and ongoing inequality. Tribal attorney and Couchiching First Nation citizen Tara Houska chronicles the history of attempts by government and industry to eradicate the legitimacy of Indigenous peoples' land and culture, including the months-long standoff at Standing Rock which rallied thousands around the world. 'It's incredible what you can do when you stand together,' Houska says. 'Stand with us -- empathize, learn, grow, change the conversation.' "
Recording of 2017 event (00:10:55).

Article by Nick Martin
The Emancipator
August 31, 2022
"The Talk: A dual reality for Native kids: Why this moment of Indigenous visibility is not without its painful ironies"

A timeline of legislation related to immigrations and ethnic history.
*Click on the item name/event for brief summaries.
Immigration History is a project of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

"Tribal Business News is a digital publication delivering in-depth stories, analysis and business intelligence on all aspects of Native business and economic development activities. It’s a comprehensive 24/7 tool for tribes, tribal entities, policymakers and anyone doing business in Indian Country."

Article by Daniella Zalcman
CNN
July 13, 2021

"The American story has been profoundly shaped by Native Americans, yet the stories told about Native people are often false and almost always incomplete. From the first Thanksgiving and the Plymouth Colony to Pocahontas and Jamestown, Indigenous peoples are rarely narrators of these stories. Native youth from these Native communities and learn how Native people are actively reshaping this narrative today. Join us in a conversation with Abigail Peters (Mashpee and Aquinnah Wampanoag/Mi’kmaq), Gisselle Jiménez (Taíno), Connor Tupponce (Upper Mattaponi/Chickahominy). "
(video, 00:47:00)

"The 'First Thanksgiving' is often portrayed as a friendly harvest celebration where Pilgrims and generic, nameless Indians came together to eat and give thanks. This story is a myth that was sparked in the mid-1800s when English accounts of the 1621 harvest event resurfaced and fueled the American imagination..."

Article by Alexis Bunten
"The pop culture story of the First Thanksgiving, often told to children in grade school, is a myth. For the true story of what happened at the First Thanksgiving, and how Indigenous lives have been affected ever since, Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program’s Alexis Bunten (Aleut/Yup’ik) hosted a conversation with Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy), the Akomawt Educational Initiative’s Director of Education."

Article by Alexis Bunten
"...Because part of the mission of the Bioneers Indigeneity Program is to provide public education around Native perspectives, we wrote this blog post to share some ideas for new traditions you can include at your Thanksgiving this year to better honor the Native Americans, immigrants, and their descendants who contribute to our country’s diversity..."

"The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Native Knowledge 360° Essential Understandings about American Indians is a framework that offers new possibilities for creating student learning experiences. Building on the ten themes of the National Council for the Social Studies' national curriculum standards, the NMAI's Essential Understandings reveal key concepts about the rich and diverse cultures, histories, and contemporary lives of Native Peoples. These concepts reflect a multitude of untold stories about American Indians that can deepen and expand your teaching of history, geography, civics, economics, science, engineering, and other subject areas."

Features nature scenes; includes "Indigenous New Mexico!' word-find, and Buffalo lesson.

“ The Institute for Native-serving Educators (INE) is a collaborative initiative to strengthen schools across Indian Country. Housed in NAU’s Office of Native American Initiatives, we partner with Native Nations, Indigenous-serving schools, and public school districts on and bordering reservation communities to develop professional development opportunities that meet community needs. We do not have a one-size-fits-all approach to professional development (PD). Instead, we build a unique PD experience based on the goals of the community and based on research and best practices in culturally responsive schooling.
The goal of INE is to reduce educational inequities impacting Indigenous youth and communities, and to be the premier preK-12 professional development institute of choice for Native Nations in the United States.”

"The Bioneers Indigeneity Program is the go-to source for accurate and contemporary information about Indigenous science, media, and curriculum for social change.
To support the use of Bioneers’ original content in the classroom, we’ve developed thematic discussion guides and curriculum bundles aligned with national standards for grades 9-12+. Each bundle includes teacher instructions, activities, assessment, and additional materials for a week of instruction around a set of themes. All lesson plan objectives and activities are aligned to high school standards for science, social studies/history, and English."

National Museum of the American Indian (NMIA)

Immersive educational gaming.
"Developed for use by middle school students in the classroom and beyond, Mission US is a deeply-researched, award-winning educational media project with proven positive impact on history learning. To date, more than three million registered users across the country have played and learned from Mission US.
Mission US is committed to teaching complicated and sensitive topics in American history. We recommend that teachers/parents preview game content to make sure it is appropriate for their students/children."

A variety of lesson ideas using the Library of Congress collections.

"Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use."

"From the 1860s through the 1870s the American frontier was filled with Indian wars and skirmishes. In 1865 a congressional committee began a study of the Indian uprisings and wars in the West, resulting in a Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes , which was released in 1867. This study and report by the congressional committee led to an act to establish an Indian Peace Commission to end the wars and prevent future Indian conflicts. The United States government set out to establish a series of Indian treaties that would force the Indians to give up their lands and move further west onto reservations.
In the spring of 1868 a conference was held at Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming, that resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory."

"Lecture by N. Bruce Duthu, Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
Originally recorded as part of the 'New Perspectives in American Indian History' teacher workshop held on November 21, 2020"
(video recording of 11/21/2020 event, 00:42:33)

Hundreds of digitized Native American treaties.
*Click on "Resources" in the upper right corner for curriculum units.
The National Archives in partnership with the Indigenous Digital Archive project of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

"NK360° provides educational materials, virtual student programs, and teacher training that incorporate Native narratives, more comprehensive histories, and accurate information to enlighten and inform teaching and learning about Native America. NK360° challenges common assumptions about Native peoples and offers a view that includes not only the past but also the vibrancy of Native peoples and cultures today."
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)

"Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom"
Lessons; curated reading lists; professional development programing such as the annual Indigenous Peoples' Day Curriculum Teach-In, and Native Knowledge 360֯ and Teaching for Change Teach-In; and more.

Explore teaching materials by time period, theme, resource type, or keywords.
"The Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People’s History website offers hundreds of free, downloadable teaching activities for middle and high school classrooms to bring people’s history to the classroom. Coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change, the site also lists hundreds of recommended books, films, and websites. The teaching activities and resources are organized by theme, time period and grade level. This is the only collection of its kind for educators — print or online — in the country."

**Use Chrome or Safari browser to view handwritten document.**
Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government 1778 – 2006 —> Series: Indian Treaties 1789 – 1869 —>File: Ratified Indian Treaty 1: Five Nations - Fort George, New York, August 14, 1722

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government 1778 – 2006 —> Series: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress 1789 - 2013 —> File: Public Law 90-284 —> Item: National Archives Identifier 12199297

Other title: H.R. 6355, 68th Congress, 1st Session
Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government 1778 – 2006 —> Series: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress 1789 - 2013 —> Item: National Archives Identifier 299828

"A photography collective looking at the evolution of Native American identity, rights, and representation."

1778 - 1868
Transcriptions of primary source documents.

Digitized photographs searchable by Nation, Topic, or State.
Record Group 75, National Archives and Records Administration.

"The Carlos Montezuma collection contains several digitized volumes of the Wassaja newsletter that Yavapai intellectual and activist Carlos Montezuma, MD (1866-1923) self-published during the years 1916-1922. Wassaja means “signaling” or “beckoning,” and is Montezuma’s Yavapai birth name. The newsletter was a vital source of news about Indian affairs in an era that had few outlets for such information and contains valuable reports directly from people living within the Indian reservation system. As a prominent figure in the struggle for Indian rights, who played a role in the founding of the Society of American Indians, Montezuma was an intellectual leader against Indian Bureau mismanagement, notorious for advocating an end to the reservation system and the abolition of the BIA. This collection helps to document different facets of Montezuma’s career as an Indian rights leader and his relationship to his home community of Fort McDowell."
**Click on "Resource Type" on the left menu to limit to "Newsletter": https://repository.asu.edu/collections/195?type=Newsletter

"From 2007 until 2010, Dr. Peterson Zah and Dr. Peter Iverson met in the Labriola National American Indian Data Center to record talks for their new book We Will Secure Our Future: Empowering the Navajo Nation. The collection contains 18 WAV files of audio recordings, 10 PDF files of transcriptions, and 7 JPEG files of photographs taken by ASU Libraries ICS staff during Dr. Zah and Dr. Iverson's interviews."

"The “Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures” was established in 1756 by a group of eminent Quakers in Philadelphia following months of horrific violence between settlers and Native Americans on the Pennsylvania frontier.
The Friendly Association papers contain hundreds of unique and detailed accounts of behind-the-scenes treaty negotiations; historical documents dating back to the early years of Pennsylvania related to work with Indigenous groups..."

"Welcome to the Bureau of Land Management(BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation web site. We provide live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present. We also have images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States."

A collection of TED Talks by and about indigenous peoples, values, knowledge systems, and more.

"The access to and acquisition of land drove much of American history. From wars, treaties, immigration, and settlement, land is interwoven into the very core of what it means to be America. The National Archives preserves many of the historical records that reflect this topic. Many Federal agencies that drove land related actions include the General Land Office, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Forest Service, and the National Park Service. Records held by the National Archives that can be of great use to researchers include, but are not limited to Land Entry Case Files, Right of Ways, Mineral Surveys, township surveys, and water rights.
As you plan your research, consider this question: how does my research topic interest intersect with the US Federal Government?"

"The National Archives has custody of the land entry case files for the thirty Federal public land states. There are case files for all states in the U.S. except the thirteen original states, Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maine, West Virginia, Texas, and Hawaii. These states were never part of the original public domain." (https://eservices.archives.gov/orderonline/help/landentryreadmore.htm)

"NIBSDA was conceptualized to serve as a national digital platform and digital repository for boarding school archival collections throughout the United States.
As part of truth-telling, access to boarding school records for survivors and descendants is paramount to understanding this history and its consequences on Tribal Nations."
Advisory from the repository:
"The content contained herein may trigger secondary trauma or PTSD; we encourage individuals to seek counseling or healing if you experience any stress related to boarding school history. Indigenous peoples are warned that this digital archive contains images, names, and references to deceased persons."

"The Smithsonian holds thousands of museum collections, archives, books, and more related to the history of Native Americans and Indigenous communities of the world. Many of these materials were created or collected by the United States National Museum’s (now the National Museum of Natural History) Bureau of American Ethnology and by the George Heye Foundation during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These collections comprise the largest set of Indigenous and Native materials within the Smithsonian, now held in the National Anthropological Archives and the National Museum of the American Indian. Other Smithsonian museums, libraries, and archival units, also hold collections documenting Native history...
Please note that these have been organized by our catalogue records that often contain outdated historical information, names, and terminology. "

"The NMSU Library Archives and Special Collections houses about one million items in its photographic collections, with materials that cover more than 150 years of image making in New Mexico, the U.S./Mexico border region and the Southwest. The photographs provide visual documentation of all aspects of the region’s history, with an emphasis on the unique cultural heritage of the area. The collections provide striking visual representation of social history, material culture, ranching, mining, agriculture, water and irrigation, the development, expansion and sometimes abandonment of population centers, and the landscape of New Mexico."

Links to the digitized resources of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Hundreds of digitized Native American treaties.
*Click on "Resources" in the upper right corner for curriculum units.
The National Archives in partnership with the Indigenous Digital Archive project of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

Includes an interactive digital map of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools.
"NABS was created to develop and implement a national strategy that increases public awareness and cultivates healing for the profound trauma experienced by individuals, families, communities, American Indian and Alaska Native Nations resulting from the U.S. adoption and implementation of the Boarding School Policy of 1869."

"The Carlisle Indian Industrial School is a major site of memory for many Native peoples, as well as a source of study for students and scholars around the globe. This website represents an effort to aid the research process by bringing together, in digital format, a variety of resources that are physically preserved in various locations around the country. Through these resources, we seek to increase knowledge and understanding of the school and its complex legacy, while also facilitating efforts to tell the stories of the many thousands of students who were sent there."

"In partnership with the Upper Sioux Community, NABS produced 'Voices from Pezihutazizi Oyate: Boarding School Histories.' In this mini documentary, Upper Sioux Community citizens share their perspectives on the legacy of Indian boarding schools and the lasting impact it has had on them personally and culturally."

Podcast episode
Consider This from NPR
June 9, 2023 (10 min)

Article by Alaa Elassar
CNN
June 4, 2023

"Moving and insightful look into the dark chapter of American history, the federal Indian boarding school system. The goal was total assimilation into Anglo civilization at the cost of Native American culture, tradition, and language. The film story starts with pre-history and comes full circle to modern day. Much of the film is told in first person Native American voice by the people who continue to live it."
(video 00:56:40)
Read More: www.pbsutah.org/unspoken

Podcast episode with James Hohmann
Please, go on [podcast], The Washington Post
June 25, 2021
"The first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history opens up about her own grandmother’s experience with family separation after announcing a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding schools."
(audio, 00:23:00)

"In June 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive effort to recognize the troubled legacy of federal Indian boarding school policies with the goal of addressing their intergenerational impact and to shed light on the traumas of the past." Includes:
- Indian Affairs Investigative Report
- Official School List and Profiles
- Maps and more

Press Release, December 7, 2021 (Last edited February 15, 2023)
"The Department of the Interior and the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to share records and information in support of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative."

Press Release, September 26, 2023
"Grant to National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition will create permanent collection of stories from survivors of the federal Indian boarding school system"

A project of Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate (2019-2022)
"The map connects to a new online audio collection developed by Harjo and housed in the Library's American Folklife Center, which features the participating poets reading and discussing an original poem. Each chose their poems based on the theme of place and displacement, and with four focal points in mind: visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment."

Article by Aamina Khan
Teen Vogue
October 19, 2021

"Our literary audio collections contain historic and contemporary recordings featuring poets and writers reading and discussing their work at the Library of Congress (and beyond)—digitized and right at your fingertips. Start below and see what you find."
- Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature
- The PALABRA Archive
- Poetry of America

Features individual items and online exhibits with from the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).

Exhibition that "explores the interconnectedness of wellness, illness, and cultural life for Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Visitors will discover how Native concepts of health and illness are closely tied to the concepts of community, spirit, and the land."

Includes multiple online exhibitions of various topics.

"The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture produces online exhibitions illustrating themes and ideas related to Native American material culture. Some online exhibitions complement the exhibitions on view in the galleries, others are created specifically for the Web."

"Includes a visual timeline of the history of American Indian treaties and of Native American activism to defend tribal sovereignty."

"Here are more than 70 carefully selected lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators." With link to the "Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children's Books."

Browse books by culture, subject, theme, etc., or search for activity by title.

Browse books by Subject; view lesson plans and activities.

By Louise Derman-Sparks

"LGBTQ Reads is a site dedicated to promoting curated LGBTQIAP+ literature for all ages, run by author and blogger Dahlia Adler."
Includes lists of "Books featuring characters anywhere on the queer and/or trans spectra (including but not limited to Queer, Questioning, Undefined, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Pansexual, Asexual, Demisexual, Aromantic, Intersex, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, Agender, Bigender, Demigender, Two-Spirit, and/or Non-Binary)."

"Recently, ten librarians from across the country, brought together by the American Library
Association (ALA) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Investor Education Foundation
(FINRA Foundation), gathered for a series of virtual meetings. Their goal: to create an inclusive list of
financial education titles for children and teens.
Why were these librarians so focused on identifying thoughtful and inclusive financial education
books? Because teaching young people financial understanding and sound practices requires a
genuine embrace of diversity. Our financial world works best when everyone can participate and
when it responds to and respects the many cultures, backgrounds, experiences, circumstances, and
values comprising our society."

Various resources about book selection and a blog including book recommendations. The OurStory book database is free but requires login.

Summer reading booklists by year, created by educators.
"The We Are Kid Lit Collective works to create materials and opportunities to recognize the humanity of Indigenous and People of Color (IPOC) in youth literature."