1885: Rebellion or Resistance?
Explains why the Metis prefer to use the word resistance to describe the conflicts labelled as the Red River Rebellion and North West Rebellion by the Canadian government and press.
Explains why the Metis prefer to use the word resistance to describe the conflicts labelled as the Red River Rebellion and North West Rebellion by the Canadian government and press.
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Study guide for the book about a young Inuit girl's day on the land with her grandmother.
Suitable for PreK to Grade 2.
Brief text accompanied by archival photographs. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Six stories connected to the Northwest coast canoe in one volume: Look at What I Found!; Ocean-Going "Fishing" Canoe; Building of a Canoe; Carving of a Canoe; and Herbie & Slim Nellie's First Journey.
Focuses on the numbered treaties and their effect on First Nations and the Métis, and the causes and impacts of the North-West Resistance. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies students.
Chapter from Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity, 2nd Edition, by Michael Cranny.
Plot of novel involves a young Shuswap woman who leaves her reserve for the city and is ultimately raped and murdered. Includes overview of play, biography of playwright and director, and focus questions.
Lesson involves the Aleutians oral traditions regarding tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for Grades 5-6.
Related Material: Legends animated video.
Primarily the story Lake Tribe's Song of Today. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Lessons centred around Basket Bay History as told by Robert Zuboff; Raven Boat as told by Jennie White; and Kaakex'wti as told by Willie Marks.
Lessons centred around First Russians as told by Charlie White; Kaats' as told by J.B. Fawcett; Raven, the Rock, and the King Salmon as told by James Klanott; and The Coming of the First White Man as told by George Betts.
Lessons centre on the Origin of the Killer Whale, Mosquito, and Tlingit Renaissance.
Lessons center on Raven, Some Slices of Salmon: Entering the Salmon Stream, Raven and the Deer, and Tlingit Language and Oral Literature Research.
Children's storybook in Mi'kmaq and English. Contains links to audio of individual words or the entire page.
Reports on the appointment of Deborah Pelletier as the first coordinator of Aboriginal resources and services at the National Library of Canada.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.27.
Designed to teach mathematics through the lens of Squamish Lil'Wat Nations. Lesson themes include building a canoe, weaving, beadwork, drums and drumming, and making masks.
A "two-eyed" seeing activity for teaching about solstices and equinoxes.