American Indian Resources

Student & Family Resources
This page is designed to help students and their caregivers can find learning resources on Native Peoples, educational opportunities and more.
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Learning Resources

A multimedia project from the award-winning PBS series American Experience that presents Native history as an essential part of American history.

A five-part series on 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, this unique archive captures the complicated history of Utah’s tribes from multiple perspectives.

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.

First Nations Experience channel presents Native American stories and content to create a diverse and entertaining channel across all media platforms 24/7.

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 culturally and historically appropriate, 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 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 Native students fund their education after high school.

Tuition-Free scholarships available to all utah native american students at USU campuses statewide. The scholarship will cover tuition and student body fees at any USU location in the state for students from federally recognized tribes in and around Utah who are seeking technical education certificates, associate, or bachelor's degrees.

The University of Utah opened applications or its new scholarship for Indigenous undergraduate students who are members of one of the federally recognized tribes in Utah. The scholarship covers tuition and all mandatory fees.

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.
