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Agents of Change: How American Indians Helped Change the World in Only Seven Years
Unit lloks at how the Seven Years' War restructured the balance of power between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Designed for Grade 8 students.
Akilak's Adventure by Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Illustrated by Charlene Chau: Educator's Resource
Designed for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Astrodigenous
Searchable website is an online portal giving educators access to Indigenous sky-knowledge resources.
Authentic First Peoples Resources: K-9
Bashkweginiked Gookom [When Grandma Makes Leather]
Colouring book created for Ojibwe language immersion program. Text in Ojibwe with Ojibwe-English glossary.
BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
"Beyond All Age": Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan's Fiction
Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
Called to Learn, Act, and Reflect through Indigenous Teachings and Experiential Mathematics for Catholic Educators
Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools: Selected & Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians, 2016-2017
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Assimilation with Education after the Indian Wars
Changemakers Lesson Plans: Remote Learning
Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.
Cree Code Talker
Short documentary about Charles "Checker" Tomkins, a Métis from Grouard, Alberta, and his service during his attachment to the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
Duration: 13:31.
The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873
Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
Uses historical documents in conjuction with Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices. Developed for use in Advanced Placement English Literature or Language classroom, Grades 11 and 12.
Examining the Evidence: Understanding Daily Life in Residential Schools
Uses primary sources of information on the Kamloops, Shubenacadie, Beauval, and Blue Quills residential schools. Suitable for use with students in Grades 5-12.
Exploring the Great Bear Sea: Elementary Grades 4 - 7 Resource
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Exploring the Great Bear Sea: Environmental Science Grades 11 & 12
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Exploring the Great Bear Sea: Social Studies Grades 11 & 12
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
First and Second Wave Native American Literature
Students analyze Winter in the Blood by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,
First Nations & Inuit Technologies
Designed for Grade 3 Social Studies classes. Students learn about indigenous inventions and discoveries and how they helped European settlers.
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Connections: Scope and Sequence of Expectations
Fishing with Grandma: By Susan Avingaq and Maren Vsetula, Illustrated by Charlene Chua: Educator's Resource
Suitable for primary grades.
Garden of Relatives Coloring Book
Colouring pages based on design that features plants and the animals associated with them.
Gimaamaa-akiiminaan gimiigwechiwendaamin = Thankful for Our Mother Earth: A Kid's Activity Book
Story and activities focus on the harvest of wild rice. English with some words translated into Ojibwe.
Grade 4: Alsumsuti Ujit T’an Teli-l’nuimk = To Be Indigenous Is to be Free = Topelomosu Wen Skicinuwit
Content focused on the Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqewiyik, and Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) peoples of New Brunswick.
Indian Boarding Schools: A Case Study of Assimilation, Resistance, and Resilience
Indigenous Environmental Autonomy in Aotearoa New Zealand
Indigenous Ingenuity and the Fur Trade: Lesson Plan
For use with Grades 5-12.
Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Governance: Agencies and Interactions
Indigenous Teaching Resources: Students Collection
Indigenous Watershed Initiatives and Co-Governance Arrangements: A British Columbia Systematic Review: Final Report
Indigi-Genuis
Series of 13 videos (each approximately 5 minutes long), geared toward children, explore how Indigenous knowledge and traditions have contributed to the modern world.
Interpreting Moments of American Indian Activism
Discusses the American Indian Movement, the occupation of Alcatraz, Trail of Broken Treaties, the Nebraska Compaign, and Wounded Knee occupation. Designed specifically for Grade 8 students at Walker Jones Education in Washington, D.C.
Inuit Art and HBC: Lesson Plan
Examines the company's role in fostering the development, promotion, collection and market for Inuit art. Suitable for Grades 4 to 12.
Island Métis K-12 Resources Project: A Living Document of Métis Resources and History for Students and Teachers
Lists illustrated bboks, novels, videos, DVDs & film, short story/creative writing, and non-fiction for primary, intermediate, secondary grades.
The Issues of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada: Teaching Unit
Kanien'kehá:ka Creation Story
Traditional Mohawk story, sometimes known as the Sky Woman story.
Kanyen'kehà:ka Creation Story
Traditional Mohawk story also known as the Sky Woman story.
Kiuguyat: The Northern Lights
Indigenous Alaskans discuss their experience of the aurora borealis. Duration: 25:25.
Kiviuq and the Bee Woman By Noel McDermott, Illustrated by Toma Feizo Gas: Educator's Resource
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Kiviuq and the Mermaids by Noel McDermott, Illustrated by Toma Feizo Gas: Educator's Resource
Pre-reading activities, discussion questions, learning activities, and extension activities for Grades 4 to 6.
Land and Water Based Education
Focus on Mi'kmaw culture and Nova Scotia, but lessons could be adapted to other contexts. Lesson plans for all levels as well individual grades.
Land-Based Learning
LAND | MINE
Learn about Western Canada in the Early 1900s through the Art of C.D. Hoy: Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 7-12
Hoy was a photographer who worked in Quesnel, British Columbia at the start of the twentieth century, when the Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Rushes were taking place, resulting in different cultural groups coming together in one location. Many of his portraits were of Indigenous people living in the area. Designed to complement the online exhibition Through the Lens of C.D. Hoy: How a Chinese Canadian Photographer Memorialized a Community.
The Legend of the Fog by Qaunaq Mikkigak and Joanne Schwartz, illustrated by Danny Christopher; Educator's Resource
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.