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Center for World Indigenous Studies
Independent institute working to "restore traditional knowledge through research and education". Includes links to education programs, fourth world papers programs, research, virtual library and media center.
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
A Cheyenne Odyssey
Role-playing game for middle school grades. This mission focuses on changes to the Northern Cheyenne's way of life from 1866 to 1876 due to encroachment of United Sates military expeditions, railway builders and white settlers. Students assume the role of Little Fox and influence the outcomes of the game by the choices they make.
Collection of Documents on Gender Discrimination and the Indian Act
Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery
Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery
[Documents and Papers Relating to Louis Riel and the North West Resistance]
Digitized documents are mainly transcribed copies. In two parts.
Empowering the Spirit: Educational Resources to Support Reconciliation
Website developed to provide support for educators by increasing "awareness, understanding, application of First Nations, Métis and Inuit histories, perspectives and ways of knowing for the purpose of implementing treaty and residential schools education and Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action for education".
[Hudson's Bay Company Archive Digitized Microfilm]
Contains links to over 10,000 volumes of the pre-1870 records from almost 500 Hudson's Bay Company posts, including post journals, incoming and outgoing correspondence and accounts, and records kept at districts and departments overseeing the post activity which include lists of servants, accounts, reports, engagement registers, abstracts of servants’ accounts and minutes of council.
Index of Native American Music Resources on the Internet
Indigenous Arts & Stories
Indigenous History: A Bibliography
Indigenous Peoples within Canada: A Concise History: Student Resources
To accompany 5th edition of book written by Olive Patricia Dickason, William Newbigging and Cary Miller. Contains links to: chapter outlines; learning objectives; key terms, figures, or sites; study questions; essay questions; additional resources; and flashcards.
K-12: Infusing Indigenous Texts in Classrooms
Keeper of My Home Learning Resource: First Nations Teaching Materials and Online Games about Housing
Website contains links to educational material for Kindergarten to Grade 12, including summary of housing topics, lessons plans, E-learning games and guides, and activity booklets. Content is arranged around 4 themes: traditional teaching of the community, First Nations housing topics, home maintenance and home safety.
Labrador Inuttut Dictionary
Lakota Culture
Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.
Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.
The Media and Indigenous Policy Database
Moose Hide Campaign Learning Platform for K-12
Moose Hide Campaign is an Indigenous-led movement to engage men and boys in preventing violence against women and children. Site includes links to teacher resources such as a curriculum guide, lesson plans, and videos.
National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
Native American Moons
Lists names of months in a wide variety of North American Indigenous languages.
Native American Sky
Lists English translations of cultural groups' names for: the Milky Way, North Star, Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, Cassiopeia, Pleiades, Corona Borealis, Scorpius, and Aurora Borealis.
Native American Starlore
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
Native Narratives: The Representation of Native Americans in Public Broadcasting
Looks at radio and television coverage of key events or issues in both non-Native American-produced and Native American-created programs found in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting collection. Divided into five sections: (Mis)Representations of Native Americans; Termination, Relocation, and Restoration; The American Indian Movement; Native Americans in Contemporary News Media; and Visual Sovereignty: Native-Created Public Media.
Operation Water Spirit
Secret Path: Lesson Planning Templates
Includes links to series of brief lesson plans highlighting themes of awareness, acknowledgement, atonement, action and understanding and accompanying power points, student workbook and residential schools project.
Designed for use with the graphic novel and movie about Charlie Wenjack, a twelve-year-old who died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario in 1966.
For use with junior high school students.
The Spirit Lives
Submissions from Parties with Standing [National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls ]
Treaty 9 Diaries: The Real Agreement between First Nations and the Crown in 1905: Materials and Documents
Website contains links to legal discussion paper on oral promises, digitized copies of the diaries of the three treaty commissioners (Daniel George Martin, Samuel Stewart, Duncan Campbell Scott), the official report, article Last of the Indian Treaties by Campbell Scott published in Scribner's Magazine, and series of articles by the Treaty Secretary entitled Twelve Hundred Miles by Canoe published in the Canada magazine.