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Anishnaabemowin: Miinwa Anishnaabe Zheyaawin, Our Language, Our Culture
April Raintree: A Multi-Level Novel Study Resource for Instructors
Assertion of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to Land and Resources: Addressing Deep-Rooted First Nations-Federal Conflict Through Sustained Dialogue
Authentic First Peoples Resources for Grades 10 to 12 and Adult Learning
General information on choosing appropriate texts, common themes, copyright and protocol and dealing with sensitive content followed by an extensive list of material with annotations for grade level, description, themes and content cautions.
Bringing Métis Children’s Literature to Life: Teacher Guidebook for GDI Publications
Canada's First Nations
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators: 2020-2021
Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper
[Children's Book Activity Sheets for Home-Based Learning]
Coming Out of the Shadows: Asserting Identity and Authority in a Layered Homeland. The 1979-1982 Mud Lake Wild Rice Confrontation
Creating Sacred Places for Children in Grades 4-6
Creating Sacred Places for Students in Grades 7 & 8
Culture-Based Curriculum: A Framework
Data "Gathering Dust": An Analysis of Traditional Use Studies Conducted Within Aboriginal Communities in British Columbia
Domesticating Doctrines: Aboriginal Peoples After the Royal Commission
[Economic Development Among the Aboriginal Peoples in Canada]
Entwined with Life: Native American Basketry
Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company
An Explorer's Guide to Treaties in Manitoba: An Exercise in Mapping Skills
Activities teach about types of maps, using a map grid, absolute and relative location, latitude and longitude, reading a key, determining directions, etc. Maps appear at end of document.
Group of Six Coloring & Activity Book
Artwork designed by youth artists from the Six Nations, Grand River Territory.
How I Survived Four Nights on the Ice: Educator's Resource
Indian Agency: Forming First Nations Law in Canada
Indigenous Knowledge and Our Connection to the Land
Lesson plans which can be used with a variety of grades.
Indigenous Knowledge & Pollinator Gardens: Workshop Series
Series of eight modules designed to teach Grade 6 students about the importance of biodiversity, local community and Indigenous knowledge by creating gardens. Each module should take place over the course of a week.
Indigenous Storytelling with Elder Hazel
The Innu: Another Cry for Help
Interpretive Guide and Hands-on Activites: The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program: ᐊᐧᐃᐧᓯᐦᒋᑲᐣ = Wawisihcikan = Adornment
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Elaine Alexie, Erik Lee, and Carmen Miller. Topics include First Nations groups of central Alberta and the Boreal forest, brief survey of Indigenous art in the twentieth century, abstract art, and First Nations traditional art forms and materials.
Learning from the Land: Resources and Stories from K-12 Schools to Support Engagement with Indigenous Plants and Pedagogy
Includes description of the Harvest4Knowledge, Indigenous Foodscapes, Local Foods to School programs in British Columbia and five lesson plans.
Lessons from the Earth and Beyond: Bringing Indigenous Knowledge Systems into the Classroom: Educator Resources
Website includes curriculum connections, lesson plans and inquiry-based activities for primary, junior and intermediate grades for three topics: lessons from the earth, lessons from the water, and lessons from beyond.
Localizing Treaty Education
Designed for Grade 12 Social Studies classes. Focuses on the numbered treaties signed in Manitoba.
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Educator Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Student Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
Métis Traditional Food Number 1
Lesson plan for Grades 1-4 involves students learning about bannock, fried Saskatoon berries, and goose, making bannock, and Michif words associated with cooking and food.
Métis Traditional Food Number 2
Lesson plan for Grades 4-7 involves students learning and speaking Michef words associated with food and cooking, learning about bannock, fried Saskatoon berries, and goose, and making bannock.
Moon of the Crusted Snow: Reading Guide
To accompany book written by Waubgeshig Rice which tells the story of a small northern Anishinaabe community which finds itself completely isolated from the external world just as winter sets in. The key to survival is reconnecting with the land. Guide is arranged around the themes of land, colonialism, community, gender, language, traditions and culture, and real world events.o accompany story written by
Native Land Digital
Maps Indigenous territories around the world. Can be filtered by location, language, and treaties and superimposed with settler labels. Includes links to resources such as teacher's guide, mobile apps, and lists of territories, languages, and treaties.
Related Material: The Land You Live On Education Guide.
Note Taking Frame: 1885 Resistance
Black line master designed for use with chapter Manitoba Enters Confederation in the Grade 6 Social Studies textbook Canada: A Country of Change (1867 to Present) by Graham Broad and Mathew Rankin.
Ojibway Nature Center Colouring Book
Each picture is introduced with a story which includes words in the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) language.
On the Side of the Angels: A Memoir by Jose Amaujaq Kusugak: Teaching Guide
Designed for use with students in Grades 7 to 9.
Perceptions of Power and Voice In an "Inner-City" School
The Politics of the Canoe
Redskins, Tricksters and Puppy Stew
Reflections from Them Days: A Residential School Memoir from Nunatsiavut As Told by Nellie Winters, Transcribed and Edited by Erica Obendorfer: Teaching Guide
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Residential Schools, Truth and Reconciliation: Selected Resources
Annotated list compiled for use by teachers; current as of 2021.
Resource Conflict in the First Nations Post-Treaty Environment
Return of the Pipeline
Rupertsland Institute Lesson Plans
Setting the Table: Traditional First Nations Foods Lesson Plans K-8: Foundational Knowledge
Lesson Plans: Food Is a Gift suitable for K-2; Gifts of the Season suitable for Grades 3-5; Gifts of the People suitable for Grades 6-8.