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Title VII, Indian Education Program

Resource Library

New arrivals

Alaska Native music CDs

  • Smithsonian Folkways (Gwich'in, Southeast, Hudson Bay, Southwest US, Algonkians)
  • Oyate Recordings (Athabascan, Unangax, Unipiaq, Chu'pik, Tlinget, Nunuvut, Ojibwe, Wampanoag)

Books

  • Lessons From Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms by Guy Jones and Sally Moomaw
  • A Coyote Columbus Story by Thomas King
  • Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today by Lori Marie Carlson
  • Columbus: His Enterprise by Hans Koning
  • Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (Updated Version) by Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson
  • Learning By Doing: Northwest Coast Native Indian Art by Karen Clark & Jim Gilbert
  • The Frog Princess: A Tlinget Legend From Alaska by Eric Kimmel

Many more new titles available
and more to come!

A unique collection of Alaska Native/American Indian resources and the latest research on culturally relevant-educational pedagogy. Includes ASD library holdings and MANY other items.

Resources

  • Books, DVDs/VHS, CDs - Check out the new arrivals at right »
  • Project boxes organized by culture/topic: including Reader’s Theater
  • Native clothing, regalia, models, artifact examples for teacher/student use
  • “Professional development” titles on ethnicity and culture in education
  • Other materials for teachers available online »

 

Who can help you?

Resource Librarian/Secretary Carla Hollingsworth 742-4449
Library hours M-F from 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 2-4 p.m.
Cultural Enrichment Specialist Josephine Edwards-Vollertsen 742-4872
Resource Teacher Nancy Gould 742-4447
Administrative Assistant Marilyn Balluta 742-4445

 

How to locate materials

  • Use Webcat to search library holdings throughout ASD
  • Visit the Title VII, Indian Education Resource Library at the ASD Education Center

 

How To Check Out/Check In

ASD library holdings

  • On site during Resource Library hours (see above)
  • Inter-Library Loan (ILL) requested/returned at your school library

All other items

  • On site during Resource Library hours (see above)
  • Special circumstances: by phone and inter-district mailed to you

 


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