Canada

Looks at the underlining causes of and recommendations to address the forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada.

Using their own personal experiences to examine the treatment of Indian Status Card users and the misconceptions about Status Cards by the general public. To view article to scroll down to page 85.

Looks at the role of the Canadian media in reconciliation by well-informing the general public of the countries colonial impact on its Indigenous populations.  

Based on a Pacific Northwest traditional story. Suitable for Grades 1-3.

Intended for use in Grade 7 Social Studies classes.

Chapter from Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives by David Rees, Darrell Anderson Gerrits, and Gratien Allaire.

Timeline of significant dates and events from 1497 to 2006 with main focus being the Hudson's Bay Company.

Volume II

Intended for Grade 4 Social Studies.

Archaeology Thesis (PhD) -- Simon Fraser University, 1990.

 For use with the article The Business That Created a Country found on p. 6 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" in Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades1 to 5.

Brief video discusses the life of the Metis leader and his role in the 1885 Resistance. Duration:  7:25.

Related Material: Transcript; Teacher's Guide.

General environmental education resource with some references to the Lake Superior watershed.

Colouring pages based on design that features plants and the animals associated with them.

Children's book retells a traditional story about how the beaver got his flat tail; In Ojibwe and English.

Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.

Children's story about how each fish has a unique "dance"; in Ojibwe and English.

Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.

Children's book retells a traditional story about the chickadee; in Ojibwe and English.

Related Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.

Story and activities focus on the harvest of wild rice. English with some words translated into Ojibwe.

Text in English with some words translated into Ojibwe.

Colouring book created for Ojibwe language immersion. Text in Ojibwe with Ojibwe-English glossary of terms.

Lesson plan for the primary level book.

Reports results of web survey of 1,305 Canadians.

From Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada by John Belshaw, Sarah Nickel and Chelsea Nickel. Lists traditional and anglicized versions of First Nations and tribes discussed in the book.

Six primary and eight intermediate lesson plans in subject areas of English language arts, science, and social studies.

"Field Validation Version."

Modules: First Peoples, Early European Colonization (1600 to 1763), Fur Trade, and From British Colony to Confederation (1763 to 1867).

Meant for use with the textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.

Students answer questions based on examination of primary documents.

Although designed for use with a class trip to the festival by elementary and middle schools students, material stands alone.

Designed to assist researchers and archivists by cross-referencing field offices to names of bands and the duration of their responsibility.

Discusses documents found in the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Archives de l'Archevêché de Saint-Boniface, Public Archives of Canada, Archives de la Chancellerie de l’Archevêché de Montréal, and Les Archives du Séminaire de Québec and the periods in Riel's life which are not represented in any collections. Two appendices list documents and the repositories in which they are found. Research was conducted as part of the Riel Project and published as The Collected Papers of Louis Riel.

Using personal experiences to address colonialism and the systematic racism within the Canadian health care system.

Annotated list of Gwich'in language books suitable for use in the classroom.

Revised edition.

Native Studies Thesis (PhD) -- University of Manitoba, 2019.

Traditional stories include: A Man Entertained by The Thunderers; The Horned Serpent Runs Away With A Girl Who Is Rescued By The Thunderer; Niagara Falls and the Thunderbeings; and The Thunder Beings and the Hunter.

Stories about the snipe, hawk, heron, black bear and deer as told from the perspective of clan members.

Examines the participation of inmates in the Work 2 Give program, were the inmates made items for Indigenous communities, and how participation in the program helped with the inmates healing process.

Examines how culture helped shape the experiences of Indigenous populations during the COVID pandemic.  

Lesson plan for use with picture book by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Krykorka which is the story of a little Inuit girl who is lured into a cave by an Ijiraq who refuses to take her home. She outwits him and finds her way back using an inuksugaq as a landmark. Recommended for Grades Kindergarten to 2.