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Lesson plan uses the books : Shi-Shi-Etko, Shin-Chi’s Canoe, and Stolen Words.

Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.

Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.

Lesson plan focuses on what cultural appropriation is, how it affects Indigenous peoples and whether it should be regulated by law.

Accompanying Material: Student Version.

Developed in conjunction with the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World.

Discusses pre-contact structures and the techniques used in their construction.

Using an community-based approach by using over 183 interviews to discuss Indigenous health.

Using a scoping process to examine overlapping and unceded areas within the Treaty 9 landscape.  

An overview of the research on Indigenous children's overrepresentation within the welfare system.   

Looks at the cause of and ways to address the low immunization rates in Indigenous communities in Australia.  

Using interviews and focus groups to analyze the DUDES Club as a means to engage both Indigenous and non-Indigenous men to address their physical, mental and spiritual health.  

Examines the results of 11 studies on health care institutions that used culturally appropriate interventions when dealing with Indigenous patients.  

An overview of 14 studies analyzing anxiety, depression and attempted suicide amongst the Indigenous Canadian populations and the use of culture as a treatment method.  

Uses the book The Inuit Thought of It: Amazing Arctic Innovations, by Alootook Ipellie with David MacDonald as a starting point to teach about how the Inuit have used the natural resources available to meet the needs of their communities. For use with students in Grade 5.

Describes games played throughout the Arctic with special emphasis on the Keewatin Region. Includes information on how to teach games and the equipment needed.

Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5.

Author reviewed previously published research, archival material, and museum collections, however the majority of information was gathered by interviewing people in Nunatsiavut. Discusses games, toys and pastimes.

Lists history, instructions on how to play and equipment needed for 25 games.

Uses the device of a prequel to The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum to articulate the impacts of colonialism on Indigenous peoples.

Short story published in Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island edited by Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner, and Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill.

Recommended for Preschool-Grade 2.

Book about the nighttime activities of animals on the Pacific Northwest coast. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade Four.

Story about an Inuit girl who disobeys her mother, goes fishing on the sea ice and is kidnapped by Qallupilluit. Recommended for Preschool to Grade 2.

Lessons center on Raven, Some Slices of Salmon: Entering the Salmon Stream, Raven and the Deer, and Tlingit Language and Oral Literature Research.

Lessons centre on the Origin of the Killer Whale, Mosquito, and Tlingit Renaissance.

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.

Lyrics to Kepmite'tmnej - The Mi'kmaq Honour Song; Wejkwita'jik - the Gathering Song, Kwanu'te' - the Feast Song, Iknmuwetu - the Giveaway Song, and Kitpuewey Ktapekiaqn - the Eagle Song in Mi'kmaw and English.

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.

Teacher's guide.

Lessons structured around items from the Seattle Museum of Art's collection.

Four lessons designed for Grades 8-12.

Introduces students to design shapes and definitions, the importance of balance in design, and artists' composition strategies. Includes five activities which lead up to students creating their own foil "engraving".

Children's storybook in Mi'kmaq and English. Contains links to audio of individual words or the entire page.

Indigenous Relations Thesis (M.I.R) -- Laurentian University, 2021.

Communication Thesis (M.A) -- Simon Fraser University, 2018.

History Thesis (M.A) -- Middle Tennessee State University, 2019.

Media Studies Thesis (PHD) -- University of Canberra, 2018.

Archaeology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A) -- University of Saskatchewan, 2019.

Social Work Thesis (PHD) -- McMaster University, 2017.

Education Thesis (M.A) -- University of Manitoba, 2021.

Education Thesis (PHD) -- University of Regina, 2021.

Education Thesis (M.A) -- McGill University, 2014.

English Thesis (PHD) -- University of Toronto, 2016.

Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Thesis (PHD) -- Charles University, 2021.

Environmental Studies Major Project Report (MES) -- York University, 2020.

Education Graduate Research Project (M.A) -- University of Northern British Columbia, 2011.

Uses primary sources of information on the Kamloops, Shubenacadie, Beauval, and Blue Quills residential schools. Suitable for use with students in Grades 5-12.

Special themed issue of the children's magazine.

Website designed for Grade 3-6 students looks at the relationship between the Indigenous peoples of the plains and the buffalo.

Resource uses the painting by Albert Bierstadt to teach close reading skills, allegory and the importance of wildlife conservation. Includes links to interactive puzzle, team-building game, sorting activity, game-based art survey and inquiry study.

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.

Resource for teaching about the impact of settlement and colonization.

Suitable for use with Grade 7 and 8 students.

General information on treaties in Canada.

Story inspired by the discovery of the remains of young woman who lived during the 1600s, at time where there had yet to be contact with Europeans.

Revised edition.

For use with picture-book which provides historical information about the pre-contact culture and language of the Rocky Cree people from around South Indian Lake in Northern Manitoba.

English text with some Cree vocabulary and phrases, and glossary and pronunciation guide.

Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather regain his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.

Suitable for use with students aged 9-13 (Grades 4-7) who have completed three or more years of Cree language instruction.

Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather learn his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.

Suitable for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-4). Text in English with some Cree vocabulary.

To accompany book about Josephine-ba Mandamim, an Ojibwe Grandmother, and her love for water; she has  walked around the Great Lakes to raise awareness of the importance of protecting it for future generations.

Appropriate for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-3). English text with some Ojibwe vocabulary.

Brief description of the teachings about wisdom, respect, truth, humility, bravery, honesty and love and the animals which represent them.

2020 edition.

To accompany book about the young activist from Attawapiskat, Ontario who campaigned for a new school to replace one that had been contaminated by a massive diesel leak in the late 1970s.

To accompany book about the young activist from Attawapiskat, Ontario who campaigned for a new school to replace one that had been contaminated by a massive diesel leak in the late 1970s.

Related material Still Waiting in Attawapiskat video.

Stories collected from storytellers and writers from Fort Resolution, Hay River, Fort Smith, and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Text in Chipewyan and English.

Traditional Mohawk story, sometimes known as the Sky Woman story.

The traditional story of how Wisakedjak caused the great flood and how, with the help of Muskrat, he was able to remake the world.

Extract from Native Voices edited by Freda Ahenakew, Breanda Gardipy, and Barbara Lafond.

Elders' brief descriptions of nine rules to live by.

Accompanying video.

Brief description of some of the uses of the tree.

Accompanying video.

Describes uses of moss and the soapberry bush.

Accompanying video.

Describes setting up a tent and benefits of spruce matting.

Accompanying video.

Describes the process of preparing and curing moose hide.

Accompanying video

Discusses historical representations of Indigenous peoples such as the noble and ignoble savage, the assumptions underpinning these concepts, and debates among historians about stereotypes and makes suggestions for guiding classroom discussions.

Revised edition.

Brief retellings of the Ojibwe, Lakota and Iroquois traditional stories.

Connects Indigenous health with the locations of rural and remote Indigenous communities.

Lessons 1-4

Fasting and Sweat Lodge Ceremony Information

Lessons 1-4

Lesson 1: Bering Strait Theory

Lesson 2: First Nation Creation Stories

First Nations Water Issues Case Studies

Lesson 1: Discussion and Reflection of the Four Case Studies

Lesson 2: Writing a Newscast

Foreigners Invade Your Country Treaty Negotiation

Compare and Contrast Foreign Treaties with First Nations

Group Evaluation

Part 1: First Nations Creation Stories

Part 2: Medicine Wheel Teachings

Part 3: Four Sacred Elements: Earth, Fire, Water, Wind

Part1: Waterways and the Métis Nation

Part 2: Tribal Affiliations and Water Transportation

Part 1: First Nations Creation Stories

Part 2: Aboriginal Communities: Heritage and Citizenship

Lengthier version of the traditional Haudenosaunee origin story about the Sky Woman.

Grade Four Social Studies curriculum focuses on the stories of Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Territories.

Accompanying Material: Student Activity Book.

Tlicho (Dogrib) creation story.

Traditional Mohawk story also known as the Sky Woman story.

General introduction to the history, culture and art of members of the confederacy made of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onodagas, Cayugas and Senecas.

Introduction to biases and stereotypes about Indigenous and other groups.

Day 2: Water Is In Us and All Around Us

Day 3: First Nation Medicine Wheel Teachings

Day 4: Four Sacred Elements

See: The Hero Twins and the Swallower of Clouds (North America), p. 10.

Koluscap and the Water Monster (North America), p. 53.

Tiddalik the Frog (Australia), p. 60

Accompanying Lesson Plans:

Kindergarten; Grade 1; Grade 2; Grade 3; Grade 4;  Grade 5; Grade 6

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

Can be adapted for students K-12. There are two activities: harvesting birch sap and making birch syrup.

Designed as a brief introduction to the issues for educators.