American Indian Resources

Student & Family Resources
This page is designed to help students and their caregivers find learning resources on Native Peoples, educational opportunities and more.
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This multimedia project from the award-winning PBS series American Experience presents Native history as an essential part of American history.

Each episode in this five-part series features one of the five indigenous tribes of the Great Basin Region we now call Utah. View We Shall Remain Lesson

With articles, books, government documents, oral histories, photographs and maps pertaining to the Northwest Shoshone, Goshute, Paiute, Utah Navajo, White Mesa and Ute Indian tribes, this unique archive captures the complicated history of Utah’s tribes from multiple perspectives.

First Nations Experience channel presents Native American stories and content to create a 24/7 channel with a wide array of content for all media platforms.

Free, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans and more. There are thousands of resources available when you search for American Indian.

Explore a framework and foundational concepts that build on the ten themes of the National Council for the Social Studies’ national curriculum standards for teaching about Indigenous peoples in a historically based, respectful way. From the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

Explore Mule Canyon Village and House on Fire in 3D guided tours of Bears Ears National Monument and learn about the history of the Ancestral Pueblo people and the significance of the landscape to descendant communities today.

Larry Cesspooch shares his thoughts on the Ute Indian people today and shares Ute wisdom, including the Creation Story. Larry is a member of the Ute Indian Tribe, and he is a filmmaker and story teller. He's also a veteran who served in Vietnam. He shares Ute wisdom and language.

Educational Opportunities

Find and apply for grants, loans and work-study funds for college or career school.

This site links to nearly a hundred resources to help Native students fund their education after high school.

Find scholarships and other financial resources available to Utah Native American students at USU campuses statewide.

The University of Utah Native Student Scholarship is for undergraduate degree-seeking students who are enrolled members in one of Utah’s federally recognized tribes and commits to meeting the student’s tuition and mandatory fee charges not covered by scholarships and grants from all sources.

Parents

Learn about the Utah State Board of Education’s American Indian Education Program, which is designed to help educators address the needs of learners in support of Title VI.

Challenge stereotypes with authentic, contemporary information by and about Native peoples from an initiative designed to increase the visibility of Native people in American society.

Started in 2012 as an entity of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation (CTGR), Sacred Circle Healthcare (SCHC) is owned and operated by the Goshutes. Preserving the Goshute heritage of protecting and caring for family, they extend that tradition to all underserved populations in the local community.
