Contrasting Worlds
Overview of Métis history from the 1600s to the early 1870s when many Métis migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Includes questions for students.
2nd edition.
Overview of Métis history from the 1600s to the early 1870s when many Métis migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Includes questions for students.
2nd edition.
Includes brief instructions in both English and Seneca and the story Legend of the No Face Doll.
Colouring and activity book teaches children to count to ten in Michif.
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.
Suitable for Grades 4 and 5.
Designed as a brief introduction to the issues for educators.
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.
Annotated list of Chipewyan language books suitable for use in the classroom.
Pictures of animals accompanied by their names in English and heritage Michif.
Pictures of animals accompanied by their names in English and Northern Michif.
Traditional creation story. Extract from Native American Stories by Joseph Bruchac and Michael J. Caduto.
Illustrated version of the Iroquois creation story.
Web page includes brief information about the fur trade and two games: Fur Trade Timeline Game and The Fur Trade Game.
Created to support Ontario secondary courses Grade 11 Contemporary Aboriginal Voices and Grade 11 English.
Uses primary sources of information on the Kamloops, Shubenacadie, Beauval, and Blue Quills residential schools. Suitable for use with students in Grades 5-12.
Designed for Grade 4.
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.
Book is Margaret Pokiak-Fenton's memoir about attending residential school for two years. This lesson plan uses Grade 6 Program Learning Outcome (PLO)s.
Contains links to three modules: Sourcing Food, Learning European Methods, and Preventing Success.
Resource for teaching about the impact of settlement and colonization.
Suitable for use with Grade 7 and 8 students.
Designed for Grade 3 Social Studies classes. Students learn about indigenous inventions and discoveries and how they helped European settlers.
Includes book summaries, literacy prompt questions, and enrichment activities for books appropriate to each grade. Revised Version.
Intended for use in Grade 7 Social Studies classes.
Chapter from Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives by David Rees, Darrell Anderson Gerrits, and Gratien Allaire.
Intended for Grade 4 Social Studies.
For use with the article The Business That Created a Country found on p. 6 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" in Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades1 to 5.
Brief video discusses the life of the Metis leader and his role in the 1885 Resistance. Duration: 7:25.
Related Material: Transcript; Teacher's Guide.
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.
Six primary and eight intermediate lesson plans in subject areas of English language arts, science, and social studies.
"Field Validation Version."
Modules: First Peoples, Early European Colonization (1600 to 1763), Fur Trade, and From British Colony to Confederation (1763 to 1867).
Meant for use with the textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
Students answer questions based on examination of primary documents.
Although designed for use with a class trip to the festival by elementary and middle schools students, material stands alone.
Annotated list of Gwich'in language books suitable for use in the classroom.
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.
Lesson plan for use with picture book by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Krykorka which is the story of a little Inuit girl who is lured into a cave by an Ijiraq who refuses to take her home. She outwits him and finds her way back using an inuksugaq as a landmark. Recommended for Grades Kindergarten to 2.
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.