Teacher Resources
OPS - Indian Education Teachers
Meshelle Barnhart
Indian Education Teacher
Vickie Graham
Indian Education Teacher
Kyle Sprague
Indian Education Teacher
Do's and Don't s of Teaching About Native Americans
Teaching about Native Americans, their past and current roles in American history is important. However, it can be tricky to know exactly what to do or not to do. Please use this list as a helpful guide.
- Do Teach about Native Americans!
- Do Talk about Native Americans as modern people.
- Do Talk about Native Americans as people.
- Do Talk about Native Americans as a diverse people.
- Do use multiple perspectives when talking about Native Americans.
- Do be careful with your word choice.
- Do represent Native peoples carefully.
- Don’t use stereotypes about Native Americans.
- Don’t have students to pretend to be Natives.
- Don’t talk about Native Americans as things.
- Don’t use Native students to represent all Native peoples.
