How do you help young children learn more about Native Americans than the cultural stereotypes found in children's books and in the media?
"Lessons from Turtle Island" is the first complete guide to exploring Native American issues with children. The authors--one Native, one white, both educators--show ways to incorporate authentic learning experiences about Native Americans into your curriculum. This book is organized around five cross-cultural themes--Children, Home, Families, Community, and the Environment. The authors present activities, from children's books they recommend, to develop skills in reading and writing, science, math, make-believe, art, and more. The book provides helpful guidelines and resource lists for selecting appropriate toys, children's books, music, and art, and also includes a family heritage project.
" 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.

...a lost and violated girl, surrounded by the stench of coal and thick smogs. Raped repeatedly by her father she runs away to London, and after trying her hand at different jobs she gets a place as a nursing auliliary in a hospital. At a dance she meets an Indian aristocrat, and after a brief courtship they plan to marry. When they ask permission of her father the latter sells his daughter like a lorry-load of coal for 50. ...her journeys in India begin... In a time of huge political and social upheaval, with many disturbing riots in India she, with the help of the British Government returns to South Wales with her five half-cast children, in a land where there is very little immigration. On the boat voyage over, tired and bitter about being "used," and totally suspicious of men she meets her beloved, whom she first scolds as she thinks that he is after her eldest daughter, now a very beautiful teenager. Their journey continues, and their expereinces are many, varied and ofetn extreme... ...it is said that fact is stranger than fiction...