Geologic Oral Traditions
Lesson involves the Aleutians oral traditions regarding tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for Grades 5-6.
Related Material: Legends animated video.
Lesson involves the Aleutians oral traditions regarding tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for Grades 5-6.
Related Material: Legends animated video.
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.
Billy Wapass Jr. presents his family's version of the ancient legend that depicts the origin of the Hand Games.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.13.
Children's book retells a traditional story about the chickadee; in Ojibwe and English.
Related Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Retelling of traditional Tlingit story. Lesson plan for Grades 4-6.
Related Material: Teacher resource including Tlingit language wall cards, retelling materials, transformation story elements, reader's theatre script for The Woman Who Married a Bear, and calendar icons.
Traditional story suitable for use with Grade 4-7 students. Extract from the book The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway.
Primarily the story Lake Tribe's Song of Today. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
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.
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 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.
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.