We are a Title I, K-5 elementary school located in the heart of North Portland. We are a majority Black and Brown student community with a diverse population of over 18 different languages. 100 percent of our students receive free school lunch. We try and address as many needs as possible at our school, but often lack the funding to provide the supports we need.
Many of our English Language Learners come to our school with no prior schooling.
The challenge of learning English and building proficiency in content subjects is overwhelming for many of our students. A lack of prior schooling has many of our refugee students completing schoolwork several grade levels behind their peers.
My Project
We would like to build a larger class library of K-5 grade level books for our community that are written by or feature stories around Indigenous people/nations across the Western Hemisphere.
We have seen an increase of land acknowledgements in our schools, the result of making land acknowledgements without supporting them with curriculum that centers Indigenous nations becomes performative because our students learn nothing about the stories behind these land acknowledgements.
We want to continue building culturally relevant curriculum in our schools by being intentional about what we teach with. We can go beyond land acknowledgements as a community and create a different narrative by centering Indigenous stories missing from our classrooms.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
Shaped By Her Hands: Potter Maria Martinez (She Made History)
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$11.99
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$47.96
Stolen Words
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$19.95
2
$39.90
Muskrat and Skunk / Sinkpe Na Maka: A Lakota Drum Story (Dakota and English Edition) (English and North American Indian Languages Edition)
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$18.91
2
$37.82
Greet the Dawn: The Lakota Way
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$18.76
2
$37.52
Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman
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$17.99
2
$35.98
Wilma's Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller (A Big Words Book)
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We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
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$16.19
2
$32.38
I Sang You Down from the Stars
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$15.99
2
$31.98
THUNDER'S HAIR
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$14.99
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$29.98
Dance in a Buffalo Skull (Prairie Tales)
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$14.95
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$29.90
Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story
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$14.95
2
$29.90
We Are Water Protectors
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$14.38
2
$28.76
Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes
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$13.10
2
$26.20
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
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$12.68
2
$25.36
How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable
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$11.99
2
$23.98
Ho'onani: Hula Warrior
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$11.59
2
$23.18
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer
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$10.62
2
$21.24
Native Americans in History: A History Book for Kids (Biographies for Kids)
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$9.99
2
$19.98
Building an Igloo
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$9.99
2
$19.98
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
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$8.99
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$17.98
Jingle Dancer
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$8.99
2
$17.98
Native Homes (Native Nations of North America (Paperback))
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$8.95
2
$17.90
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving: A New Look at Thanksgiving (National Geographic)
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$7.95
2
$15.90
Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books)
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$7.95
2
$15.90
Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun: A Cherokee Story
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$7.95
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$15.90
Chickadee (Birchbark House, 4)
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$6.99
2
$13.98
How Chipmunk Got His Stripes (Picture Puffin Books)
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$6.99
2
$13.98
Mama Do You Love Me?: (Children's Storytime Book, Arctic and Wild Animal Picture Book, Native American Books for Toddlers) (Mama, MAMA)
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$6.99
2
$13.98
Morning on the Lake
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$6.92
2
$13.84
A Boy Called Slow (Paperstar Book)
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$6.36
2
$12.72
Who Was Sitting Bull?
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$5.01
2
$10.02
Materials cost
$897.34
Vendor shipping charges
$8.17
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$13.46
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$948.97
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$167.47
Total project goal
$1,116.44
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$1,116.44
2 Donors
-$556.01
Donations toward project cost
-$476.36
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$79.65
match offer
-$556.01
Match offer toward project cost
-$472.61
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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