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Lesson Plans for Native American Heritage Month

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The following lesson plans feature poems from the rich tradition of Native American poetry.

read more poems for Native American Heritage Month

Teach This Poem: “If You Knew” by Ruth Muskrat Bronson

Teach This Poem: “She Was Fed Turtle Soup” by Lois Red Elk

Teach This Poem: “Peace Path” by Heid E. Erdrich

Incredible Bridges: “Remember” by Joy Harjo

Teach This Poem: “This Morning I Pray for My Enemies” by Joy Harjo

Teach This Poem: “For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet” by Joy Harjo

Teach This Poem: “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo

Teach This Poem: “Map” by Linda Hogan

Teach This Poem: “Nimbawaadaan Akiing / I Dream A World” By Margaret Noodin

Teach This Poem: “Changing Is Not Vanishing” by Carlos Montezuma

Teach This Poem: “More Than Something Else” by Rainy Dawn Ortiz

Teach This Poem: “Coyote” by Alexander Posey

Teach This Poem: from “WHEREAS” by Layli Long Soldier

Teach This Poem: “A Song of a Navajo Weaver” by Bertrand N. O. Walker

Teach This Poem: “Carrying Our Words” by Ofelia Zepeda

Teach This Poem: “Changing Is Not Vanishing” by Carlos Montezuma

Teach This Poem: “A Song of a Navajo Weaver” by Bertrand N. O. Walker

Teach This Poem: “The Forest for the Trees” by Rena Priest

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