Akilak's Adventure by Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Illustrated by Charlene Chau: Educator's Resource
Designed for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Designed for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Looks at a project that encourages Inuit people to begin writing their stories and, in this way, pass on Inuit culture and language to the next generation.
Written as a court transcript, the author shows the use of a traditional narrative for academic discourse.
Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman.
Discussion on the problem of discourse in the Dunne-za/Cree trial, which pitted written documents against knowledge gained from the oral tradition of First Nations peoples.
Analysis of two short stories, Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre and One Good Story, That One, commenting on King's use of irony and humor.
Suitable for primary grades.
Content focused on the Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqewiyik, and Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) peoples of New Brunswick.
Lists illustrated bboks, novels, videos, DVDs & film, short story/creative writing, and non-fiction for primary, intermediate, secondary grades.
Discussion on the effects of colonization, the solutions to a path of healing and the changes required to alter the future.
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Pre-reading activities, discussion questions, learning activities, and extension activities for Grades 4 to 6.
Story is about a family throwing a party.
Discussion of two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which expose the problems, challenges and injustices that Aboriginal people face.
Discusses the period in Christine Quintasket's life when her health improved and she regained the strength to pursue her ambitions as a writer.
Looks at the Métis phrase miyo-pimatisiwin (good life) and how it connects the Métis past with the present.
Discussion on the death of tribal languages.
Discuss the significance of oral history to the Woodland Cree to reinforce their cultural worldview into the modern era.
Interviews conducted with Alan Syliboy, Albert Marshall, Michelle Marshall-Johnson, Catherine Anne Martin, Morgan Toney, Gerald Gloade, and Michelle Syliboy.
Examines the parallels between the Sakha concept Aiyy Yorege and the Cree word Pimachesowin towards each group's journey to self-determination.
Discussion on reviving traditional storytelling techniques, in new forms, and challenging the Canadian literary tradition.
Looks at a fictional visionary's dream about the horrors that await the First Nations of the Americas.
Discussion on Inuit poetry; and the difference between the contemporary Canadian poetic tradition and that of the traditional Inuit.
Investigates how attitudes changed between European and Indigenous Canadians in early literature.
Revised edition.
Related Material: Summary Report.