Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month. We have free history lessons and assessments to support teaching the histories of Indigenous peoples of the United States and the Americas this month and year-round. Materials with an asterisk (*) are available to download in Spanish.

World History Lessons

• Teotihuacan*
• Inca Empire*
• Moctezuma's Zoo*
• Moctezuma and Cortés*
• La Malinche*
• Atahualpa and the Bible*
• Aztec Encyclopedia*
• Zapatista Uprising*

U.S. History Lessons

• Pocahontas*
• First Thanksgiving Mini Lessons*
• King Philip's War
• Portola Expedition
• California Missions*
• Lewis and Clark SAC
• Chumash Revolt of 1824
• Manifest Destiny*
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Annexation of Hawaii*
• Carlisle Indian Industrial School
• Tribal Land Policies

History Assessments of Thinking (HATs)

• Atahualpa and de Soto*
• Florentine Codex
• The First Thanksgiving*
• Inca Fortification
• Túpac Amaru II
• Portrait of an Iroquois Leader
• Seven Years' War
• The War of 1812
• Hawaiian Annexation
• Creating Columbus Day
• Tribal Land Policies
• Native American Rights