Lessons from Turtle Island
Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms
By Guy W. Jones; Sally Moomaw
(Redleaf Press, Paperback, 9781929610259, 208pp.)
Publication Date: October 2002
Categories: Elementary, Teaching Methods & Materials - Classroom Planning, Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science
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Create a curriculum that reflects and honors the diversity of all people. Lessons from Turtle Island explores Na-tive American issues in preschool and early primary education. The authors—one Native, one white—offer guidelines for learning experiences that move children beyond embedded stereotypes.
"[A] marvelous tool that should be in every American school."—Joseph Bruchac, author of Heart of a Chief and The Winter People
Guy W. Jones, Hunkpapa Lakota, is a full-blood member of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. He is a co-founder of the Miami Valley Council for Native Americans in Dayton, Ohio.
Sally Moomaw teaches at the University of Cincinnati. She is the co-author of the More Than . . . curriculum series published by Redleaf Press.
Sally Moomaw is professional development coordinator and adjunct instructor at the Arlitt Child and Family Research and Education Center at the University of Cincinnati. She is also the co-author of the "More Than...Series" and Lessons from Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms.
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