Journeys to the Past

Recommended for grades K-5
Available November 4-15, 2024
Length: 50 minutes

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month through storytelling, song, and dance. This video takes students on a journey into the lifestyle of the California Indian, particularly the Acjachemen Nation, which flourished in Southern California hundreds of years before the Spanish influx. Jacque Nunez, master storyteller, and Educator of the Year for the Indian Education State Conference 2009, shares her people’s indigenous tools, instruments, games and clothing through stories and songs.

First offered in 2022-23, we are pleased to be bringing this popular video to you again free of charge.

“I think the video is a wonderful presentation of a California Native American Culture. I really appreciate that Jacque Nunez began in present day because I like that my students see her as a person of the present and do not just see Indigenous Americans as people in our country’s history. The presentation was engaging and interactive. Even though this was a videotaped presentation, when Jacque Nunez was speaking to the audience and asking for participation, my students participated as though it was a live performance. She states in the beginning that students will hopefully have an experience that leaves them with better “understanding” and “respect” and I think this program does just that.”

–5^th Grade Teacher, North Davis Elementary School, Davis CA

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