Native American History & Heritage | Study + Student Workbook

Explore Native American history through distinct nations, living communities, and meaningful conversations. 🌿

Native American History & Heritage introduces children to the diversity of Indigenous peoples, with a special focus on the Wabanaki peoples of Maine and neighboring regions.

Throughout the study, children learn that Native nations have their own histories, languages, governments, homelands, and traditions—and continue to shape their communities today.

Your download includes:

• 24-page illustrated study

• 14-page companion Student Workbook

• 38 pages of lessons and activities

• Full-color and printer-friendly versions

Explore together:

🗺️ Many Nations, Many Stories — Discover selected Native nations and regional locations while learning what simplified maps can—and cannot—show.

🌲 Meet the Wabanaki Peoples — Learn about distinct nations, connections to Maine and neighboring lands, and present-day community life.

🧺 Knowledge, Culture & Community — Explore homes, food systems, languages, storytelling, art, science, trade, and governance through specific examples.

📖 History & Its Consequences — Introduce treaties, colonization, forced removal, boarding-school policies, resistance, and resilience.

🌿 Native Nations Today — Learn about sovereignty, contemporary artists and leaders, and respectful ways to keep learning beyond Native American Heritage Month.

The companion workbook includes map exploration, matching and sorting activities, a timeline, fact-and-stereotype questions, research pages, drawing prompts, and a final learning project.

Best suited to adult-guided learning with ages 5–9, with simplified “Tiny Learner” prompts for younger siblings and opportunities for older children to extend their research.

Difficult history is addressed in straightforward, non-graphic language. Adults can select and adapt discussions to their children’s readiness.

Use this introductory supplement during November or throughout the year. Families are encouraged to continue learning from official tribal websites, Native-led educators, and the communities themselves.

Secular educational resource. Digital PDF download only. No physical product will be shipped.