Native American Heritage Month
Celebrating DPS Cultural Moments
Indigenous Peoples' Day is Monday, October 12th. Native American Heritage Month is November.
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Elementary Picture Book Reads
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Shaped by Her Hands: Potter Maria by Anna Harber Freeman
This inspiring story of family and creativity illuminates how Maria's belief in sharing her love of clay brought success and joy from her New Mexico Pueblo to people all across the country.
Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman by Sharice Davids
This inspiring picture book autobiography tells the remarkable story of Sharice Davids, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and the first LGBTQ congressperson to represent Kansas.
Elementary Chapter Book Reads
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids edited by Cynthia L. Smith
Eighteen intersecting stories and poems by both new and veteran Native writers about families who travel to meet, dance, sing, socialize and honor Native traditions at an intertribal powwow.
We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell
A group of Native American kids from different tribes presents twelve historical and contemporary time periods, struggles, and victories to their classmates, each ending with a powerful refrain: we are still here.
Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith
In this magical, modern twist on Peter Pan, stepsisters Lily and Wendy are spirited away to Neverland by a mysterious boy and must find a way back to the family they love.
Middle School Reads
Sear-Ringed World by Maria Garcia Esperon
Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories.
High School Reads
National Museum of the American Indian
National Congress of American Indians
PBS's Native America
The Ways
Native American Heritage Month Smore
Denver Public Schools Celebrating Cultural Moments
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