Agents of Change: How American Indians Helped Change the World in Only Seven Years
Unit lloks at how the Seven Years' War restructured the balance of power between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Designed for Grade 8 students.
Unit lloks at how the Seven Years' War restructured the balance of power between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Designed for Grade 8 students.
Teachers' resource uses works by Michael Barber, Carl Beam, Monique (Aura) Bedard, Janice Brant, Deron Ahsén:nase Douglas, Lorrie Gallant, Kelly Greene , Summer Hill, Janus, Nancy King (Chief Lady Bird), Quinn Smallboy and Saul Williams.
General information on choosing appropriate texts, common themes, copyright and protocol and dealing with sensitive content followed by an extensive list of material with annotations for grade level, description, themes and content cautions.
Activities for the following titles: A Promise is a Promise; Awasis Bannock; Bowwow Powwow; Gifts from Raven; Go Show the World; How Raven Stole the Sun; I Like Who I Am; My Heart Fills with Happiness; Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak; Sweetest Kulu; Walk on the Shoreline; We Are Water Protectors; Windy Lake; and You Hold Me Up.
Simple activities and questions to help parents who are reading and discussing books with children.
Discusses how European fashion influenced Hodinohso:ni styles.
Resources categorized by grade level and subject matter.
Results of a survey conducted with 3,00 Canadian adults between June 4 and June 8, 2021.
Designed for Grade 3 Social Studies classes. Students learn about indigenous inventions and discoveries and how they helped European settlers.
Intended for Grade 4 Social Studies.
Story and activities focus on the harvest of wild rice. English with some words translated into Ojibwe.
Although designed for use with a class trip to the festival by elementary and middle schools students, material stands alone.
Brief list arranged under headings leaves and plants, berries, and barks, with location, description and uses.
Power point and slide notes.
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather regain his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 9-13 (Grades 4-7) who have completed three or more years of Cree language instruction.
Colouring book teaches words in Northern and Heritage Michif and English.
List of resources grouped by Grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12. Some are specific to Michigan, but most are general.
Education Capstone Project (MEd) -- University of Alberta, 2021.
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
Created for Grades 10-12.
"An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother explore the natural wonders of each season in this lyrical, bilingual story-poem." Intended for use with ages 3 to 7.
Designed to accompany videos featuring Inuit, First Nations, and Metis leaders.
Includes pictures of numerous examples of how quills were used for decorative purposes and instructions for various techniques.
Educational animated short (8:26 min.).
Designed for Grade 1-3 art classes.
Lesson plans for Grades 4--8. Indigenous Perspectives section begins on p. 329.
Nine modules: Origins and Connections to the Land; Pre-Contact Cultures; Early European Exploration and Colonization; Nouvelle-France and Cultural Integration; French-English Rivalry; Refugees, Warriors and Reformers; Negotiating Confederation; Furs, Farms and the Métis; and Treaties, War, and the Changing West.
Integrates Dene, Inuvialuit and Inuinnait perspectives on history.
"Territorial Pilot 2011-2012".
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather learn his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-4). Text in English with some Cree vocabulary.
Discusses the use of Indigenous educational holistic approaches to improve communication and understand for new teachers in Canada.
Discusses the importance of First Nations peoples' involvement in the conflict and the consequences for them once the war concluded.