Jeff Ryan

Prescott, Wisconsin

Man in glasses and pink shirt speaking indoors, with framed posters and photos on the wall behind him.

A social studies teacher at Prescott High School, Jeff Ryan witnessed the challenges faced by Wisconsin’s Native people, which influenced his passion for infusing American Indian Studies in his classroom.

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Host beside an image of a sunflower, an illustration of a Native American farmer, and to vials in a lab

The Look Back: Native American Farming and the Rise of Agriculture

Native Americans living in eastern North America—which includes what’s now Wisconsin—have been cultivating plants for thousands of years. ...

Stockbridge-Munsee Oneida Brothertown Ho-Chunk Ojibwe Menominee Potawatomi

Grades 4-9

Title card for The Ways episode "Deep Snow Camp: Ice Fishing and Subsistence Harvest," photographed from beneath the ice looking up through a freshly drilled hole. An ice chisel penetrates the surface from above, surrounded by shattered ice and churning bubbles, with green lake water visible below. Text is rendered in white bold type with small orange and blue diamond decorative elements.

The Ways, Deep Snow Camp: Ice Fishing and Subsistence Harvest

Chris McGeshick of the Sokaogon Chippewa Community (Mole Lake Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) talks about Deep Snow ...

Ojibwe

Grades 6-12

Person stirring pot outdoors; text reads “Raising the Grain” and “Field Notes on Climate” about wild rice habitats.

Field Notes on Climate: Wild Rice

Wild rice, known as manoomin in the Anishinaabe language, plays an important ecological role and holds deep cultural ...

Ojibwe

Grades 6-12

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Jeff Ryan describes how he believes teaching American Indian Studies is “good for kids”

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