A book list produced for visitors to the museum's FAMily Discovery Center and other programs for families with children.

This resource pairs the museum's documentary film, WINIKO: Reunions, with a student graphic organizer designed to prompt analysis of the filmmakers' thesis, key messages, and point of view. To receive a Vimeo link to the full film, email learn@famok.org no fewer than five days prior to your class. Please use an email address associated with your school or organization. About the Film: First Americans Museum challenges the idea that institutionally collected objects no longer have familial ties to cultural communities. WINIKO: Reunions shares the museum’s work reuniting institutionally collected cultural materials with their related communities and families. FAM worked with 135 items on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the 39 Tribal Nations in Oklahoma to generate a practice. They believe the work is a benefit to the tribal communities, collecting institutions, and museum audiences. (Run time: 45 minutes) Keywords: Documentary film, museum studies, reunions, visual arts, Native arts, museology

Developed for the museum's South Wing Galleries, this workbook emphasizes visitor meaning making through open-ended writing and drawing prompts. Can be used anywhere in the OKLA HOMMA or WINIKO: Life of an Object Exhibitions.

A guide for those seeking to develop a land acknowledgement for their school or organization.

Designed for high school students, OKLA HOMMA Online is a virtual adaptation of First American Museum's exhibition OKLA HOMMA. This self-contained experience for use on tablet or laptop includes digital media, interactive elements, and linked Google Doc activities for students to complete. OKLA HOMMA Online addresses the collective arts, histories, and cultures of the 39 tribal nations in Oklahoma from origins to the present day. Students consider narratives from First American perspectives and are prompted examine First American works of art, primary sources, and oral traditions. Keywords: Origin stories, homelands, removal, assimilation, allotment, self-determination, tribal nations

Recipes developed by First Americans Museum and Shape Your Future, a program of TSET.

Developed for student use in the OKLA HOMMA exhibition at First Americans Museum. Teachers are encouraged to assign students portions of the workbook to complete during a self-guided tour of the museum. Please note all school field trips must be scheduled prior to arrival at FAMok.org/schools.

This activity is an effective bell-ringer or inquiry starter for students in visual art, social studies, or Native studies courses. A facilitator plays excerpts of the songs listed on each page of the handout. Students are prompted to listen quietly and respond by creating abstract designs that represent each song. Emphasizing abstract designs, such as patterns, shapes or squiggles, prevents learners from drawing stereotyped imagery or becoming anxious that they "cannot draw." The conversation questions at the end of the packet can be discussed as a group or in pairs. The facilitator should point out to the group that all of the artists played in class are Native, even if their music does not "sound" Indigenous. Native peoples continue to express themselves culturally and creatively in diverse ways.