Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month, Grades 9-12
Explore Native American Culture with the Following Lessons,
Activities, and Resources November is Native American Month and
Alaska Native Heritage Month. Estimates of the population of the
Western Hemisphere prior to the arrival of Europeans range from
8 million to more than 100 million. Cultures were as varied as
the stationary Mayas in the Yucatan and the nomadic Plains
Indians in North America. Explore Native American culture with
the following lessons, activities, and resources. The Nez Perce
and the Dawes Act Students in grades 8-12 examine the expansion
of the United States in the Pacific Northwest from the Nez Perce
perspective and assess the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 and its
consequences. Making Connections to Myth and Folktale: The Many
Ways to Rainy Mountain In this five part lesson, students in
grades 9-12 write a three-voice narrative based on the structure
in N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain. Additional
Lesson Plan Units