National Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in the month of November. Here are some fun activities that your K-12 students can participate in all year.
Native American culture
It has been a couple of years since the last Gathering of Nations. That’s what made this annual Southwestern powwow extra special this past weekend. Albuquerque was uncannily calm and sunny compared to other areas of New Mexico, where wind storm warnings were in effect. Everyone was ready for the […]
Gathering of Nations 2022
These days, it isn’t every day Navajos work with raw sheep’s wool or even think about crafting with yarn to make something wearable. Though sheep and goats are the traditional and cultural animals most raised by my Navajo people and other tribes of the Southwest, fewer people farm animals than […]
Working with Wool Pt. 1: Shearing, Skirting and Scouring
Welcome to the 7 Generation Games and Growing Math Fall 2021 Art Contest Gallery! Here, you can view all the submissions from the contest participants. The theme for the art contest is Native American Heritage Month. Contestants' grade levels range from 2nd to 8th grade.
Students Illustrate Indigenous Culture in the Growing Math Art Contest-Winners ...
The Growing Math art contest ends on November 30, 2021.
Fall 2021 Growing Math Art Contest–Extended!
1 Winter is a time for storytelling around the fire when it’s cold out. For many indigenous families across North America, winter was the season for teaching children their indigenous traditions and ceremonies through what is known as oral tradition, or storytelling. Many stories may have specific religious and ceremonial value […]
Winter Oral Tradition
Math functioned as a foundational building block for human survival all across the world.
There Has Always Been Math
Is there such a thing as Native American math? Of course! Math is in every culture and adding Native American content to your math class is easy.
Native American Culture in Math
Teaching Native American culture, but don’t know where to start? One feature that makes our games unique is their incorporation of Native American history. We know that there aren’t many classroom resources available for teaching Native American culture and we wanted to help fix that problem. In fact, many of […]
Three Videos We Love that Teach Dakota Culture
Happy Freebie Friday! It’s the first Friday of 2018, so welcome to a new year of Freebie Fridays. Today’s freebie is associated with our game Fish Lake and it is another photo of Ojibwa camp life. We previously shared a different photo of an Indian woman drying fish. Today’s photo […]
Freebie Friday: Man Mending His Canoe (historical photo)
It’s the end of the week, so that means that it’s time for another Freebie Friday! Today’s freebie is associated with our game Spirit Lake and it’s an authentic and copyright-free Native American photo. Our freebie is a historical photo of a Sioux girl, Red Elk Woman, in 1907. Red Elk […]
Freebie Friday: Photo of Sioux girl
Congratulations, you’ve survived another week! And for that, we think that you deserve something special for all of your hard work. This is why 7 Generation Games wants to give you a gift for #FreebieFriday. Did you know 7 Generation Games has a YouTube channel with a ton of great […]