The curated resources linked below are an initial sample of the resources coming from a collaborative and rigorous review process with the EAD Content Curation Task Force.
This resource set contains best practices for teaching about Native people in your classroom and sample maps with Native viewpoints and inquiry questions to use in your classroom.

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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center

Ths primary source set focuses on material culture produced about and by American Indians. The information and materials in the set can be used as a jumping off point for teachers looking to access resources provided by the Library of Congress related to the topic.

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Emerging America - Collaborative for Educational Services

In the decades following the Civil War, the US military clashed with Native Americans in the West. The Battle of Little Bighorn was one of the Native Americans' most famous victories. In this lesson, students explore causes of the battle by comparing two primary documents with a textbook account.

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Stanford History Education Group

This 12-lesson teacher's guide accompanies the Emmy-award winning documentary film, DAWNLAND, about the forced removal and coerced assimilation of Indigenous children and the first truth and reconciliation commission in U.S. history to focus on issues of importance to Indigenous Peoples. The compelling question of the guide is: What is the relationship between the taking of the land and the taking of the children?

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Upstander Project

This resources engages with the tumultuous start of this countries origin. Drawing on contemporary debates that resulted from the New York Time's 1619 project and the Trump Administration's 1776 Unites project, students will consider the most accurate way to tell the beginning of the United States, with focus on the role of Indigenous removal and enslaved people in its founding.

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New American History

Students explore themes of social justice and fair access through a simulation activity, creating new rules for settlement of a new planet Earth. They debrief the activity using John Rawls's concept of the ‘Veil of Ignorance.’ Students define social justice in terms of fair access and create their own vision of what a just future looks like.

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High Resolves

In this lesson, students will analyze the visual and literary visions of the New World that were created in England during the early phases of colonization, and the impact they had on the development of the patterns of colonization that dominated the early 17th century. This lesson will enable students to interact with written and visual accounts of this critical formative period at the end of the 16th century, when the English view of the New World was being formulated, with consequences that we are still seeing today.

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National Endowment for the Humanities

In this learning resource, students use geospatial technology to understand how Native land changed hands from the start of European colonization to the contemporary moment. Students will understand the impact settler colonialism has on Indigenous people and their homes and the changes of population that resulted from westward expansion.

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Esri

This learning resource looks at the South during the Civil War and after and how migration patterns changed during this time. Students will look at videos, maps, and historical documents to understand the impact of emancipation for Black people in the South and the impact of railroads on the westward expanding country.

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New American History

This learning resources investigates the removal of Indigenous nations in the South East during Andrew Jackson's presidency. Students will analyze the impact of the Trail of Tears on Indigenous people and contemporary issues that Indigenous people face today.

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New American History

Students will learn about Washington Territory Governor Isaac Stevens’ historic 1855 campaign to draft treaty agreements with Washington Territory Indians. Portrait images, mostly by 19th century artist and interpreter Gustav Sohon, and corresponding biographies with quotations, will become a lens for them to understand that multiple points of view affect the course of history.
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Washington State Historical Society
In this multi-session unit plan, students role-play the stakeholders in treaty negotiations between the U.S. government and Native American tribes. Students analyze the goals of the tribes and the U.S. government to evaluate bias and to emotionally connect with what was gained and lost during this pivotal time.