NEA has put together a GREAT list of ideas for teaching accurately and honestly about the history of Native Americans.
Did you know that Rancho Cordova and Folsom are located on the land of the Nisenan, Miwok, Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla peoples? You can enter your address at this site and find even more detailed information about land that you are on: https://native-land.ca/
Do you have any of these titles in your library?
ELEMENTARY AND PICTURE BOOKS
All Around Us by Xelena González
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorrell
Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker’s Story by Joseph Bruchac
Powwow Day by Traci Sorrell
Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series by Traci Sorell
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Ancestors Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids by Cynthia Leitich Smith
I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young
Notable Native People: 50 INDIGENOUS LEADERS, DREAMERS, AND CHANGEMAKERS FROM PAST AND PRESENT by Dr. Adrienne Keene
The Rez Detectives by Steven Paul Judd
We Have a Dream: Meet 30 Young Indigenous People and People of Color Protecting the Planet by Mya-Rose Craig
Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge by Eldon Yellowhorn
Native Americans in History by Jimmy Beason
Voices of the People by Joseph Bruchac
Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge by Deidre Havrelock & Edward Kay
YOUNG ADULT
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale (editors)
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry by Joy Harjo