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Explore the historical significance of the Pueblo Canes and their link to Pueblo governments today. - [Unlikely Benefits of the Great Depression](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/unlikely-benefits-of-the-great-depression/) - Much of the experience for Pueblo people during and as a result of The Great Depression led to some unlikely benefits as federal legislation and increased government spending generated change that helped to stimulate economic activities through artistic endeavors, public works projects, and resurgence in farming/ranching. - [Urban Relocation and Its Impact on Pueblo People](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/urban-relocation-and-its-impact-on-pueblo-people/) - Implemented in 1952, the Urban Indian Relocation Program was a federal policy to assimilate Native Americans to mainstream society. Studens will learn about the program and explore urbanization to understand how it impacted the Pueblo People of New Mexico. - [What is Wellness?](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/what-is-wellness/) - Reflect on the four elements of wellness; emotional, physical, intellectual, and community. Students will assess their own lives and identify community concerns. Upon identifying concerns, the students will be able to create proactive ways to help their community to be healthy and well. - [Who are the Pueblo People?](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/who-are-the-pueblo-people/) - This Unit utilizes mapping and storytelling as a means for introducing students to the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico to develop an awareness of the interrelationship between Pueblo peoples of New Mexico, socially, culturally and economically. - [Pathways to Wisdom Through Family and Community](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/pathways-to-wisdom-through-family-and-community/) - This unit is designed to engage students in connecting and relating mathematics through the activities practiced in Pueblo culture. - [Pueblo Advocacy in Contemporary Times](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/pueblo-advocacy-in-contemporary-times/) - [Poveka: A Pueblo Legacy](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/poveka-a-pueblo-legacy/) - In historical times, Pueblo pottery was used for utilitarian purposes such as carrying water and storing items, water and food. One such potter was Maria Poveka Martinez, a woman from San Ildefonso Pueblo who lived in the late 19th century and early 20th century. - [Transforming art with math](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/transforming-art-with-math/) - As with most cultures, art plays an integral role in definition. It is no different in Pueblo communities. Students will describe types of transformations that relate points by the motion of reflections, rotations and translations and methods for identifying and creating symmetric figures - [Origins of Democracy - Observing Ancient Civilizations in Modern Practices](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/origins-of-democracy-observing-ancient-civilizations-in-modern-practices/) - In many ways, Pueblo practices of cooperation to care for the land and the people, are common in the development of civilizations across the world. This unit explores the concurrent development of ancient practices in democracy as ancient Pueblo people and ancient Greeks established principles of governance for their people. - [Pueblo Connections to the Land](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/pueblo-connections-to-the-land/) - Understand the physical features of the natural landscape, combined with accumulated knowledge of the wildlife, weather patterns and water sources were key to survival in the challenging environment. - [Creating a Movement Through Resilience](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/creating-a-movement-through-resilience/) - Explore how the resilience of the Pueblo people protected and maintained their communities through communication, resilience, and working together. - [Change and Transition: Pueblo Life and Education Experiences: Joseph H. Suina and Christine T. Lowery](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/change-and-transition-pueblo-life-and-education-experiences-joseph-h-suina-and-christine-t-lowery/) - Explore the understanding of identity and culture, and how an educational experience changes one's perception of one's self and surroundings. - [Re-creating Pueblo Bonita with Pythagoras](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/re-creating-pueblo-bonita-with-pythagoras/) - Studens will be able to explain a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse by applying it to real world and mathematical problems connecting to the Indigenous People. - [Pueblos and the Vietnam War](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/pueblos-and-the-vietnam-war/) - This unit of study connects to the 100-years' timeline as part of the change in political efforts following the Termination Period and parallel with the Indian Civil Rights era during the period of Restoration of Language, Culture, Governance, and Religion. - [Safeguarding Pueblo Rights through Activism](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/safeguarding-pueblo-rights-through-activism/) - Issues of personal land ownership and individual rights have continued to threaten the practice of collective stewardship over lands and natural resources for Pueblo peoples. The lessons in this unit examine themes of cultural and historical preservation, protection of sacredness, and engagement in activism at local and national levels. - [Simon Ortiz’s Autobiographical Essay: A Perspective on Language and Life](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/simon-ortizs-autobiographical-essay-a-perspective-on-language-and-life/) - Explore an in-depth understanding of how language has a profound impact on one’s sense of self as it relates to identity, in addition to understanding how language influences one’s place in culture and society. - [Symbols, Language and Meaning](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/symbols-language-and-meaning/) - In the southwest, symbols and icons depicted on rocks, cultural wares, regalia, and other objects have stood the test of time despite cycles of innumerable interpretations, physical acts of vandalism and monetary exploitation. - [Seeking Balance to Meet the Needs of Our Communities through the Mathematics of Solving](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/seeking-balance-to-meet-the-needs-of-our-communities-through-the-mathematics-of-solving/) - Using the Housing and Urban Development Act, students will learn the effects on Native American communties, the restrictions implemented, and will model problems with constraints related to construction through a system of equations. - [The Competition for Self-Sufficiency through Gaming](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/the-competition-for-self-sufficiency-through-gaming/) - Students will analyze gaming revenue and looking at the state of the different gaming tribes in regards to their mean revenue. - [We March… Heroes of Bataan](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/we-march-heroes-of-bataan/) - Students will explore the 1942 U.S. historical event, the Bataan Death March, in which many New Mexicans including Pueblo soldiers were taken as prisoners of war in the Philippines. - [Pueblo and Commercial Agriculture](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/pueblo-and-commercial-agriculture/) - Agriculture has historically played a major role in the development of cultures and communities across the world. Ccompare and contrast Pueblo Indian agriculture with contemporary commercial agriculture. - [Wellness Through Running and Dancing](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/wellness-through-running-and-dancing/) - Focusing on Native running and dancing and how they are used for healing, prayer, and storytelling. At the core of the lessons is the importance of maintaining an active healthy lifestyle. - [Pueblo Creation Story: Our Awe-Inspiring Cosmos](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/pueblo-creation-story-our-awe-inspiring-cosmos/) - Connecting to the core values of love and respect for our universe; this unit plan will provide a foundation for understanding how maintaining balance in our environment is a critical need in today's world. - [The Creator’s Gift of Family and Community](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/the-creators-gift-of-family-and-community/) - This unit will model knowledge of self, imploring students to mature as productive members of a family and community. Further promoting problem solving skills, and demonstrate an appreciation of family and community by recognizing the Creator's Gifts as they remain an essential element to the survival of the Pueblo family and community. - [Mathematics in Our Creator’s Gifts](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/mathematics-in-our-creators-gifts/) - Designed to help students reconnect with the knowledge that Pueblo People were mathematicians who adapted to their needs in order to sustain a way of life for generations. - [My Culture Helps Me](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/my-culture-helps-me/) - Explore distict ways that family and community collaborate collectively in nurturing cultural identity. - [Community](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/community/) - Explore how the Pueblo People demonstrate a way of life that thrives on community in day to day life and during community events. - [Martin and Miguel: A Comparison of Two Heroes](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/martin-and-miguel-a-comparison-of-two-heroes/) - Explore and identify the contributions made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Miguel Trujillo (Isleta Pueblo) during the 1950's and 1960's. - [Looking to the Sky – Ancient Observations of the Sun in Chaco Canyon](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/looking-to-the-sky-ancient-observations-of-the-sun-in-chaco-canyon/) - Chaco Canyon plays a significant role in the history of many of New Mexico’s Pueblo communities. This unit will explore how the ancestors of modern-day Pueblo people were able to display a legacy of deep understanding of natural scientific knowledge to track significant solar events and cycles throughout the year - [Mathematics All Around Us](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/mathematics-all-around-us/) - Measuring, geometric principles, recognition of shapes and more knowledge was involved in order to build houses made of adobes and other materials. Students will use observational skills to discover geometric shapes within the structures of houses and buildings. - [Our Creator's Gifts: Owning our Stories](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/our-creators-gifts-owning-our-stories/) - Storytelling in all cultures has been a way of life from the beginning of time. In this unit, our children will be given opportunities to share their voice, their knowledge, and their wisdom about the world around them through their words. - [Interdependence of Corn, Beans, and Squash and the Land](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/interdependence-of-corn-beans-and-squash-and-the-land/) - Understanding the connection and interdependence of all things, students will discuss and analuze the symbotic relationship between corn, beans, and squash. - [Cooking With Fractions In Pueblo Feasts](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/cooking-with-fractions-in-pueblo-feasts/) - Using Pueblo Feast Days as a real-life example, students can apply the concept of dividing fractions through measuring recipe ingredients. - [Water Necessity for Life and Cultural Survival](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/water-necessity-for-life-and-cultural-survival/) - Explore and identify human and the community uses of water. - [Railroad Impact on NM Pueblo Indians](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/railroad-impact-on-nm-pueblo-indians/) - Prior to and after New Mexico became a state, the railroad had a major economic impact on the Pueblo People who lived there. The use of land, the creation of jobs and the impact on Indian art changed the landscape of New Mexico and how “Indians” were viewed. - [Protecting Zuni Lake](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/protecting-zuni-lake/) - For a little over two decades, the Zuni Pueblo people fought to protect their beloved Salt Lake. In this unit, students will gain an understanding about this complex struggle as they analyze Zuni perspectives on Salt Lake, viewing it as more than a landmark with the use of metaphor, personification, and analogy. ## Categories - [Uncategorized](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/category/uncategorized/) ## Grade Level - [Elementary](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/grade/elementary/) - [Middle School](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/grade/middle-school/) - [High School](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/grade/high-school/) ## Subject - [Mathematics](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/subject/mathematics/) - [Science](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/subject/science/) - [Language Arts](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/subject/language-arts/) - [Social Studies](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/subject/social-studies/) - [Health and Wellness](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/subject/health-and-wellness/) ## Author - [Odell Jaramillo](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/author/odell-jaramillo/) - [Trisha Moquino](https://indianpuebloeducation.org/resources/author/trisha-moquino/) - [Margie A. 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