Lesson Plan: Blackfoot Winter Counts and their Stories
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for Grade 2 language arts, but can be adapted to other levels.
Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Lesson Plan: Creative Writing and Drama
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for high school students.
Video highlights efforts to increase number of Ojibwe speakers through establishment of immersion schools and by recording elders' stories. Focuses on two schools: Niigaane School in Minnesota and Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion Charter School in Wisconsin.
Duration: 56:41.
Looks at re-designing Indigenous school-based health programs and practices to include indigenous ways of knowing, learning, traditions, and values of the community.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 3, Winter, 2010, pp. 151-168
Description
Looks at a curriculum, designed for Tribal Schools, that integrates science and Native American traditions to educate students on the importance of nutrition and physical activity for a healthy lifestyle.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 49, no. 1/2, 2010, pp. 50-68
Description
Discusses whether the program changed attitudes toward American Indians among young learners and therefore potentially improve interracial relationships among Native Americans and non-Native Americans.
Communique, Special Section: Indigenous Peoples: Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being, August 2010, pp. lxiv-lxviii
Description
Project goal is to develop a mental health curriculum sensitive to Native American values.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page lxiv.