Written over several years with the guidance and advice of prominent leaders, advocate and educators, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center has developed Indigenous Wisdom Curriculum, a K-12 supplemental curriculum written to New Mexico Standards and Benchmarks and provided to teachers seeking lesson plans created from a Pueblo perspective and tied to Pueblo core values and a cultural perspective as its foundation.
This Pueblo-based curriculum aims to strengthen the identity of Native American children in New Mexico by providing comprehensive K-12 unit plans on the complex political, social, cultural, and economic history of the Pueblo nations of New Mexico. The curriculum is rich with instructional strategies, resources, and Pueblo-centered cultural knowledge that will be valuable to students from diverse backgrounds and dispositions in life. The main goal of the curriculum is for Indigenous students and their teachers to become intellectually aware of the critical roles of Pueblo People in exercising agency as they met (and continue to meet) the imposition and challenges of federal and state policies on our quality of life as sovereign entities.