An Indigenous-created digital experience designed to share values, language, and food sovereignty.
The Pemmican Experience is a digital interactive narrative experience that shares the values of kinship, reciprocity, and community through taking students along the process of making pemmican, a traditional Native American food.
The digital experience is accompanied by a teacher guide that contains over 17 classroom activities across Science, Math, Social Studies, and English Language Arts.
Teacher Guide
Coming Fall 2026
Digital Experience
Coming Fall 2026
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6-PS1-3: Gather and analyze data on the preservation process of food (e.g., drying, grinding).
6-PS1-4: Plan and conduct investigations on how materials change during food preparation (dehydrating and grinding).
6-ETS1-3: Analyze and solve problems related to practical solutions (e.g., preparing and preserving food).
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6.RP.A.3: Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world problems (e.g., scaling recipes or measuring ingredients).
6.EE.A.2: Write expressions for quantities used in recipes and food preparation.
6.NS.C.5: Work with positive and negative numbers in trade and exchange scenarios (e.g., determining how much pemmican is needed for a community).
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1 - Engage effectively in collaborative discussions.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2 - Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey ideas clearly.
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Utah Core Standard 6.1.2 - Analyze the cultural practices and traditions of Indigenous Peoples in North America.
A Braiding Knowledge Project, an NSF-funded Initiative
Stewarded in Partnership with CLASP
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. #1943630 ,#2119573, & #2119630. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation