Native American Books & Resources: Educators

An affiliate of the American Library Association, AILA offers numerous resources that encompass the literature, history, and culture of native peoples.

This site publishes analyses of children's books, lesson plans, films, and other items related to the topic of American Indians and/or how this topic is taught in school with the purpose of correcting misrepresentations of Native peoples.

Lee & Low Books offers a wide range of Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous children's books, including many #ownvoices titles by Native authors and illustrators. Find award-winning picture books, middle grade, and young adult novels highlighting Native American cultures.

Native Knowledge 360° (NK360°) provides educators and students with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. Most Americans have only been exposed to part of the story, as told from a single perspective through the lenses of popular media and textbooks. 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.

Videos about Native American art, history, and culture as told by historians, artists, students, and scientists.

The Redhawk Native American Arts Council is a not for profit organization founded and maintained by Native American artists and educators residing in the New York City area. Since 1994, the Council is dedicated to educating the general public about Native American heritage through song, dance, theater, works of art and other cultural forms of expression. The council represents artists from North, South, Central American, Caribbean and Polynesian Indigenous cultures.

This site contains offerings in online instruction in the arts.

This site offers information and virtual learning opportunities about Native languages.