Native American Services and Curriculum

Nya:wëh Sgë:nö SCCSD The SHS Indigenous Youth Council will be sponsoring our annual "WEAR ORANGE" Day honoring the "Every Child Matters" movement on Friday, September 27th. ...

The 2024-2025 mulitpage calendar is now available on our website and will be mailed home to district families. Check it out online: https://5il.co/2t264 The single page A...

Today the Native American Curriculum Team spent the morning training our chefs on the cultural significance, history, and traditional processing of corn. This included shelling, n...

The Seneca Studies Honor Society was formed in the Salamanca High School to give recognition to those students who have demonstrated the desire to participate and succeed in classe...

Seneca Youth Dancers once again blew the roof off the Auxiliary Gym! We had and incredible turn out with a record-breaking number of student and family member participants in atte...

3 rd graders observed our annual Sugar Maple tree tapping demonstration with Chris Jimerson aka “Bundy” or as the kids like to call him, the Lorax. Mr. Jimerson is the Forest Mana...

Building sustainable and kind world starts with paying attention to the small gifts that surround us daily and feeling a sense of gratitude and reciprocity in receiving those gift...

Salamanca H igh School welcomes Robin Wall Kimmerer SHS Auditorium March 4, 2024 12:00pm - 1pm Open to the community! Please enter through the Gym/Auditorium entrance. Stu...

On October 19, during this year’s NIEA convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Salamanca City Central School District won the NIEA William Demmert Cultural Freedom Award. This Awa...

Buster Mitchell, a Mohawk from Akwesasne, was instrumental in the founding of NAIEA/NY. An elementary teacher for 12 years, Buster furthered his graduate education to become of the...

From the Superintendent: The Salamanca City Central School District values our relationship with the Seneca Nation of Indians and is honored to receive the endorsement of our...

At the April 25th Board of Education meeting, New York State School Boards Association representative Kurt Gustafson presented SCCSD Native American Curriculum Team with the Cham...

Four high school students are spending the weekend in Washington, DC while attending the National Association of Federally Impacted Schools Conference; in which they are pres...

The fifth-grade team partnered with the NACT (Native American Curriculum Team) to integrate Seneca and Haudenosaunee culture into our Social Studies and science curriculum. We wer...

The Salamanca School district will be reviewing the district identity, The Warriors, and the use of logos that embody Native American elements. This process will be transparent...

Request for Contributions For the last year, the Native American Curriculum Team has been working on a set of Indigenous Studies Standards as a baseline describing which pa...

Nya:wëh Sgë:nö’ Gagwe:göh, November is Native American Heritage Month when many honor, celebrate and spread awareness. At SCCSD, we celebrate, educate and honor Indigenous Peop...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca City Central School District has taken another step to show its solidarity with the Seneca Nation and all Indigenous peoples by adopting a Land Acknowled...

Why an Orange Shirt? Former residential school student Phyllis (Jack) Webstad has shared her story of her first day at residential school when her new orange shirt, bought by her ...

Deyögwadajenöwö’se:h “We are helping each other” Many teachers and staff throughout Salamanca School District have spent the last year learning Onöndowa’ga (Seneca) history and...