Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists: Teacher's Guide
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
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.
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.
Lessons centre on the Origin of the Killer Whale, Mosquito, and Tlingit Renaissance.
Lessons center on Raven, Some Slices of Salmon: Entering the Salmon Stream, Raven and the Deer, and Tlingit Language and Oral Literature Research.
Lesson plan for Grades 7-8 Social Studies.
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.
Children's book retells traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
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.
Children's book retells a Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
Retelling of a traditional story.
Retelling of a traditional Tlingit story also known as Box of Daylight or How Raven Brought Light to the World. Lesson plan intended for Grades K-5.
Related Material: Teacher Resource.
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.
Lesson plans for use with the stories The Little Duck Sikihpsis, The Good Luck Cat, Jingle Dancer, The Moccasins, and Red Parka Mary.
Lesson plans for use with the stories Where Did You Get Your Moccasins?, The Gift of the Bitterroot, Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story, and The War Shirt.
Script adapted from one of the short stories in Indian Shoes. Through students reading parts in script activity is meant to develop reading fluency.
Involves students researching leaders Nicolle Gonzalez, Roxanne White, Madonna Thunderhawk, and Auntie Pua Case and their work using ancestral knowledge to protect the sacred.
Series of 13 videos (each approximately 5 minutes long), geared toward children, explore how Indigenous knowledge and traditions have contributed to the modern world.
Children's storybook retells the Northern Cheyenne traditional story about insects who go to war because they have nothing to do. Suitable for use with elementary students.
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.
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.
Traditional Mohawk story, sometimes known as the Sky Woman story.
Traditional Mohawk story also known as the Sky Woman story.
Science unit also teaches Tlingit vocabulary. Lesson plan intended for use with Grades K-5.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.