Aboriginal Elders: A Grade 12 Unit Lesson Plan
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.
This booklet describes the ten linguistic groups in Canada and sub-categories used in booklet: location, culture area and principal cultural characteristics. Also included is a table of Indian bands, the Indian Agency to which they belong, language used and population.
Primary topic is negotiations between the British government and the Hudson's Bay Company for the cession of of the Company's rights back to the Crown and the Government of Canada's desire to annex the lands granted in the Charter of the Company.
Source: Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 8th Parl, 4th Sess, 1865 at 44-57.