UICG provides K-12 educators with a comprehensive resource to teach the unique history and culture of Utah's Ute, Navajo, Goshute, Southern Paiute, and Northwest Band of the Shoshone nations. A printed copy of the Guide, which focuses on fourth grade, seventh grade, and tenth/eleventh grade, has been sent to every public and private school in Utah.

If you have a child in the Utah education system and would like to see these materials taught in her or his classroom, we ask that you inform their social studies teacher about the UICG. By making each lesson plan grade-leveled, tied to NCSS Standards, Utah State Standards, and Accreditation Competencies, and by providing detailed objectives and procedures that include the optional use of KUED's five new documentaries about Utah's tribes, we have gone to considerable lengths to the Guide attractive to K-12 educators. I'm pleased to say that we have already received positive feedback from the teachers who have worked with the materials we have developed. We would also appreciate you mentioning to your children's teachers that in coordination with school districts and the USOE, the AWC is offering workshops on teaching Utah Indian history and culture throughout the fall. They can sign up for those workshops at www.utahindians.org.

For those of you that interested in Utah or American Indian history or culture, or that have students who might want to do research on these subjects, I encourage you to peruse the full range of resources available at www.utahindians.org. Besides a linked and downloadable version of the 269 page guide, the site contains six innovative digital maps that, like the Guide itself, present the history of the West from an indigenous perspective. The website also provides entry into the Utah American Indian Digital Archive (UAIDA), a research tool developed over the last two years by the American West Center and J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections. UAIDA offers keyword-searchable access to thousands of maps, photographs, oral histories, books, articles, and government and tribal documents related to Utah's American Indian communities.