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Aboriginal Perspectives General Lesson for the Web Site
Lesson plan for Grades 7-12 uses excerpts from five documentaries: The Caribou Hunters, Kanata : Legacy of the Children of Aataentsic, You Are on Indian Land, Riel Country and Circle of the Sun.
Aboriginal Perspectives Unit Guide for the Theme Sovereignty and Resistance
Lesson plan for Grades 7-12 uses excerpts from four documentaries: You Are on Indian Land, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Our Nationhood, and Dancing Around the Table, Part 1.
American Indian Boarding Schools: What Went Wrong? What Is Going Right?
Looks at the use of Indigenous led educational approaches to combat the effects of boarding and residential schools.
The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World
Discusses the importance of the Indigenous invention in the development of Canada.
Additional Material: The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World: 21st Century Curriculum Connections and Video Resource for Manitoba Teachers (Grades 5-9).
Bwaanzhiiwi'onan = Regalia
Colouring book with Ojibwe and English text.
Caring Is the Universal Language
Three stories about bullying prevention, justice and belonging told in English, Cree, Inuktitut, Michif, Mohawk, Oji-Cree, Ojibwe, and Oneida.
Chapter 9: The Métis Rise Up
Focuses on the causes of the Métis Resistances and their implications for the province of Manitoba and Canada as a whole. 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.
Eating with the Seasons, Anishinaabeg, Great Lakes Region
Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: Native American Boarding School Stories
An introduction to the articles on the legacy of boarding school and residential schools in North America.
Educator's Guide: Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island
Created to support Ontario secondary courses Grade 11 Contemporary Aboriginal Voices and Grade 11 English.
First Nations Diary: Documenting Daily Life
Resource for teaching about the impact of settlement and colonization.
Suitable for use with Grade 7 and 8 students.
The Fur Trade
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.
Hodinohsyo:nih Star Knowledge
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.
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Teacher's Guide
Includes discussion questions and activity ideas for each volume of the atlas.
Indigenous Language Revitalization Project (MILR) -- University of Victoria, 2018.
Miinan Waabigwaniin Gaye Aniibiishan Izhi-minoginoon Megwaayaakoong = Berries, Flowers, Leaves Growing Well in the Woods
Colouring book with text in Ojibwe and English.
Montana's Landless Indians and the Assimilation Era of Federal Indian Policy: A Case of Contradictions: Lessons for Grades 7-12
Title refers to the Chippewa, Cree and Métis.
Northwest Coast: Educator Resource Guide
Lessons structured around items from the Seattle Museum of Art's collection.
Numbered Treaties [Note Taking Frame]
Black line master designed for use with chapter Aboriginal Peoples and the Growing Nation of Canada in the Grade 6 Social Studies textbook Canada: A Country of Change (1867 to Present) by Graham Broad and Mathew Rankin.
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
Project Caribou: An Educator’s Guide to Wild Caribou of North America
Red Wolf
Lesson plan for use with the book Red Wolf by Jennifer Dance.
Reimagining History: "Righting" Treaty Wrongs
Based on the article Living Well Together by Aimée Craft and the special issue of Canada's History magazine Treaties and the Treaty Relationship Suitable for Grades 7 to 12.
sâkîyıso: Understanding and Building Health Relationships: A First Nations Violence Prevention Teacher Guide
Uses Cree/Nêhiyaw cultural teachings to support development of healthy relationships with peers, dating partners, family and community. Designed for Grade 9 students.
Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation: Teachers' Resource Guide
For use with the book by Monique Gray Smith. Includes summary, essential questions, key concepts, vocabulary and learning activities for each chapter of book. Recommended for ages 9-13.
Star Stories
Series of nine short animated videos which tell traditional Ankara, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chipewyan, Ho-Chunk, Chippewa, Cree, Mohawk, and Paiute stories about how certain stars and constellations came to be.
Starting from Now, Learning to See: Introducing Pre-service Teachers to the Process of Indigenous Education through a Phenomenological Art Inquiry
Education Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Simon Fraser University, 2018.
Teacher's Guide for Powwow Counting in Cree by Katherine Vermette
Book teaches children how to count from 1 to 10 in Cree. Recommended for Grades K-3.
The Tradition of Oral Storytelling: An Elementary Lesson Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives
Lesson involves having students create a story using coloured illustrations from books as inspiration.
Turtle Island Reads Teacher Guide: Book Summaries, Activities & Advocacy
The three books are The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, Those Who Run in the Sky by Aviaq Johnston, and Will I See? by David Alexander Robertson.
Turtle Island Reads Teacher's Guide: Introduction & Pre-Reading Activity
We Are All Treaty People
Special themed issue of Canada's History's children's magazine Kayak (September 2018). Suitable for ages 7-12.