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.
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.