2nd Grade Science: Birch Bark Lesson
Includes instructions for making a model canoe and a basket.
Includes instructions for making a model canoe and a basket.
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.
Children's story teaches counting and basic phrases; in Ojibwe and English.
Related Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Discusses characteristics of different types of combs and their uses.
Children's book about the importance of sacred tobacco in Ojibwe culture; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Traditional story about how coyote, with the help of other animals, stole fire from the Fire Protectors and gave it to humans so that they could stay warm during the winter months.
Children's story about harvesting wild leek or ramps; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Colouring book created for Ojibwe language immersion program. Text in Ojibwe with Ojibwe-English glossary.
From "A Very Remarkable Sickness": Epidemics in the Petit Nord, 1670 to 1846 by Paul Hacket.
Colouring book with text in Ojibwe and English.
Lesson plan for book written by Brenda J. Child and illustrated by Jonathan Thunder. Designed for Pre-K to Grade 2.
Colouring book with Ojibwe and English text.
Sources divided into books and pamphlets, book chapters, society publications, and periodicals.
Discusses how European fashion influenced Hodinohso:ni styles.
Although designed for use with the STARLAB cylinder, contains script which can be adapted for use without it.
Includes brief instructions in both English and Seneca and the story Legend of the No Face Doll.
Teacher's resource for the children's adaptation of humorous story which retells the story of Christopher Columbus from an Indigenous point of view.
Suitable for Grades K to 3.
Discusses various examples of Mohawk and Seneca boards and the techniques used to create them.
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.
Resources categorized by grade level and subject matter.
Looks at Canadian comparators in a number of juristictions and international comparators in Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii.
Traditional creation story. Extract from Native American Stories by Joseph Bruchac and Michael J. Caduto.
Uses chapters from book by Daniel Heath Justice as a tool to educate teachers.
Scan of published literature with a focus on cultural and need-based interventions.
Speech made in the House of Commons.
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Brief descriptions of the potlatch, first salmon ceremony and first root festival.
Based on a Pacific Northwest traditional story. Suitable for Grades 1-3.
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.
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.
Traditional stories include: The Seven Brothers (Big Dipper); Nya-Gwa-Ih, The Celestial Bear; The Seven Star Dancers; The Seven Brothers of the Star Cluster (Pleiades), Ga-Do-Waas and His Star Belt (Milky Way); and The Man-Eating Wife, the Little Old Woman and the Morning Star.
Haudenosaunee refers to the six nations (Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk), Onayotekaono (Oneida), Onandaga, Guyohkohnyoh (Cayuga), Onondowahgah (Seneca), and Skaruhreh (Tuscarora)) which comprise the Iroquois Confederacy.
For use with book by Joseph Bruchac and James which retells a traditional story designed to teach lessons about humility. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 3.
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
Retelling of a traditional story.
Retelling of a traditional story.
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.
Brief list.
Student handout.
Colouring storybook features a grandparent and grandchildren engaging in conversations about traditional teachings, when to begin and end harvesting, the equipment used, and processing and use of maple sugar. Text in English with some Ojibwe words interspersed.
Individual games for teaching Dakota, Cree, Ojibwe, Oji-Cree and Dene.
Lesson plan to accompany the book Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith and illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. Designed for use with Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.