Teaching about North Carolina American Indians

A North Carolina Humanities Council’s Teachers Institute, with experts from the Cherokee and Lumbee tribes, developed this comprehensive guide to help North Carolina educators teach their students about North Carolina’s Indians and their history. The guide, “Teaching about North Carolina American Indians,” is now available on LEARN NC’s website.

The rich heritage of North Carolina’s American Indians is presented though best practice articles, webliographies of resources that can be found in print and online, and lesson plans for 4th and 8th grades that help educators teach about the Cherokee, the Lumbee, and other tribes of our state. Teachers will also find downloadable audio files on Cherokee language and folklore, along with guides to using them in the classroom. In addition, the Lumbee English is addressed through a dialect dictionary and quiz created by the renowned North Carolina State University linguist professor, Dr. Walt Wolfram.