“AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS WITH MARIA HINOJOSA is the first PBS documentary series to focus on the dramatic demographic shifts currently taking place in this country. The new American mainstream—the growing number of Asians, Latinos, African Americans, mixed race, immigrants, women, youth, and LGBT—is influencing elections, culture, commerce, and every facet of contemporary life. We…
“Building on the ten themes of the National Council for the Social Studies’ national curriculum standards, the NMAI’s Essential Understandings reveal key concepts about the rich and diverse cultures, histories, and contemporary lives of Native Peoples. These concepts reflect a multitude of untold stories about American Indians that can deepen and expand your teaching of…
Tribal Nations Maps is a Native American owned business that creates tribal maps of Canada, the Untied States and Mexico. The website also includes articles and media realted to indigenous mapping. Online: http://www.tribalnationsmaps.com
This Teen Vogue video features young Native American women and their testimonies on the real history of Thanksgiving. Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7jLeBWMA0U
Includes some primary source materials from the UCLA Libraries, some of which may be useful for ethnic studies. Some examples include old photos of Los Angeles Latino families, oral histories collected across subjects, and papers and audiovisual recordings from the Women Against Violence Against Women (particularly the Los Angeles Chapter of the organization). The oral…
“Smithsonian Open Access allows anyone to download, share, and reuse nearly three million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections. These assets may be used for any purpose without causing or contributing to copyright infringement. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, gardens, and…
One of the projects of Community Stories, funded by the California Humanities. This seeks to share and collect stories of the Acjachemen community. Online: https://www.ocpl.org/acjachemen
Contains individual resources from the Smithsonian, as well as collections organized by theme, educational use, learning strategy. Allows individuals to use Smithsonian resources to create their own collections and share them with others. Online: https://learninglab.si.edu/
The New York Times aligns their journalism with lesson plans. They are organized by subject area but also just listed. Some examples include learning about slavery using primary sources Online: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/learning/learning-about-slavery-with-primary-sources.html