The National Anthropological Archives holds one of the largest collections of Lakota winter counts in the world. In the early 2000s, they partnered with the National Museum of Natural History and received funding to digitize the collection and build an online educational resource, created in collaboration with Lakota educators and community members. I wrote and designed the companion teachers' guide — a downloadable source of background content, lesson plans differentiated across three grade bands (K–4, 5–8, 9–12), cultural considerations guidelines, and curriculum integration suggestions across U.S. history, natural sciences, and language arts. The guide was built to do something specific: help non-Lakota teachers use a primary source without flattening it. The website won both a 2005 Webby Award and the 2005 UN World Summit Award in Culture & Heritage before being taken down.


Skills: Curriculum development · Differentiated instruction (K–12) · Primary source pedagogy · Indigenous community partnership · Cultural considerations framework · Cross-curricular integration · Educator guide writing · Publication design