Indigenous-made resources for teachers in the literacy arts
Killing Custer
James Welch, a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the United States, who is a respected author of several books, also wrote on the event of the Battle of Little Bighorn. His book, Killing Custer, began in 1990 as a film project and was a collaborative effort of different writers including James Welch. After airing, Welch continued his research which culminated in the production of Killing Custer, a new indigenous-based look at the infamous military persona. In Killing Custer, Welch presents the facts with honesty, imagination, and empathy visiting those times, places, and lives and seeing them as if for the first time.
Below is a link to a comprehensive lesson plan centred around this book, featuring options to read and write poetry.
Sami Culture in a New Era: the Norwegian Sami Experience
After many years the Sami Language has begun to be recognized as a great literary tool, particularly in poetry. Many contemporary Sami Authors have used Epic poetry (also a historic tradition in ancient Saxon, Jutish, Angle and Scandanavian tradition) to show cultural ties to land-based learning and the meeting of traditional ways and modern technology. The text, which is composed of essays and Sami poetry, helps examine how research, education and communication serve to shape and promote identity in a modern society.
Classroom Perspectives 