Stories, Lesson Plans & More

This essay explores how memory and storytelling are tools to humanize learning, allowing students to connect to their inner lives.

How might stories act as keys allowing us access to challenge, examine, uproot, and illumine our habits and fears?

This essay explores the origin story of the Global Oneness Project, the intention of the organization, and the goals of the Project’s free curriculum resources.

This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.

This series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home and one woman’s effort to bring the living history of her family back to the land.

In this final episode, Theresa Harlan continues her grassroots efforts to protect the last standing structures on Tomales Bay built by Coast Miwoks.

Episode Two traces thousands of years of Indigenous presence and history and asks: Who gets to define history?

In this episode of the “Language Keepers” audio series, we hear from the speakers of four endangered languages, who resist predictions of their language's extinction.

In this episode, we meet Julie Girado Turner, who, for nearly two decades, has been documenting and recording her father and aunt, the last fluent speakers of the Kawaiisu language.

This episode brings us to the home of Marie Wilcox—the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the creator of the only Wukchumni dictionary.

This episode explores efforts to revitalize the Karuk language, which is deeply tied to the Klamath River in Northern California.

In this episode, we meet the sole remaining fluent speaker of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ language and his family who are grappling with what is at stake if they lose their language.

This episode introduces language revitalization efforts in four Indigenous California communities and examines the colonizing histories that brought Indigenous languages to the brink of disappearance.

This feature shares the stories of four Indigenous communities in California who are working to revitalize their languages and cultures in order to pass them on to the next generation.