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Land and Water Based Education
Focus on Mi'kmaw culture and Nova Scotia, but lessons could be adapted to other contexts. Lesson plans for all levels as well individual grades.
Land-based Healing Through Adventure: Wise Practices from Indigenous Peoples
Examines the combining of adventure, culture and, land as tools for healing Indigenous trauma across the world.
"Learning from “Our Relations” Indigenous Peoples of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and United States: A Review of Culturally Relevant Diabetes and Obesity Interventions for Health
Reviews the use of traditional health interventions amongst Indigenous populations.
Learning (in) Indigenous Languages: Common Ground, Diverse Pathways
Focuses on Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand.
A Legal Love Letter to My Children: If These Beads Could Talk
Discusses possible changes to the legal system through Indigenous pedagogies.
The Legend of the Fog by Qaunaq Mikkigak and Joanne Schwartz, illustrated by Danny Christopher; Educator's Resource
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.
Lesson Plan: Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger
Mapping Approaches to Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Curriculum at Canadian Universities
Examines five approaches to Indigenizes Canadian universities curriculum's by discussing the pros and cons of each approach.
Meeting Survivors’ Needs: Gender-Based Violence Against Inuit Women and the Criminal Justice Response: Phase II: Final Report
Related Material: Report in Brief; Online Survey Results; Environmental Scan.
Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North
Métis Identity And Acculturation: A group Therapy Guide for Disconnected Métis Adults
Education Thesis (MEd) -- University of Northern British Columbia, 2022.
Métis Rising: Living Our Present Through the Power of Our Past
Misconduct, Missing, and Murdered: The Experiences of Anti-Indigenous Racism in Reproductive Healthcare among Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Transgender, and Gender Diverse People, and the MMIWG2S+ Genocide
Five cases studies involving sexual health, pregnancy and after-birth care to illustrate the connections between MMIWG2S+ and systemic racism in the healthcare system.
Motherland
Art Thesis (MA) -- University of Manitoba, 2022.
“My ancestors would be proud of us”: Métis Women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People’s Housing Histories, Experiences, Struggles, and Perspectives
Sources of information include survey, conversational interviews, document analysis and literature reviews.
National Assessment of First Nations Water and Wastewater Systems: National Roll-Up Report: Final
Purpose of research was to define current deficiencies and operational requirements of systems, identify long-term needs for each community and review sustainable, long-term infrastructure strategies for the next ten years. Recommendations grouped by infrastructure needs, operations and capacity, and regulations and guidelines. Ninety-seven percent of First Nations participated in study.
Not Enough: All Words and No Action on MMIWG: Interim Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
Discusses the Government of Canada's record on implementing of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls' Calls to Action.
A Nutrient Analysis of Traditional Anishinaabe Recipes and the Role of Folic Acid in the Regulation of Anti-Diabetic GLP-1
Biology Thesis (MSc) -- Laurentian University, 2022.
Off-Reserve Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged 0-17 in Canada in 2019
Ojibwe Oral Tradition
Adaptations of sixteen traditional stories, most relating to Wenebojo.
On-Reserve Investigations Involving First Nations Children Aged 0-17 in Canada in 2019
Open Educational Resources: Native American Medicine
Compilation of previously published material.
[Orange Shirt Day (Residential Schools)]
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Origin of Day and Night by Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt, illustrated by Lenny Lishchenko: Educator's Resource
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Plains Indian Art of the Northern Plains: Traveling Trunk Curriculum
2nd revised edition. Uses archival photographs of material culture.
Post-Secondary Education Needs Assessment
Information compiled from secondary data sources such as Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2017 (APS) and Canadian Census of Population 2016 about off-reserve Status and Non-Status Indians, NunatuKavut Inuit, and Métis students represented by the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. Discusses access, success, student needs, funding requirements, funding distribution and mechanisms, and existing programs.
A Promise Is a Promise: Lesson Plan
Story about an Inuit girl who disobeys her mother, goes fishing on the sea ice and is kidnapped by Qallupilluit. Recommended for Preschool to Grade 2.
The Raven and the Loon by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley; illustrated by Kim Smith: Educator's Resource
Intended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Re-membering a Future Regenerating Ancestral Wisdom-in-Action Through Indigenous Inspired Learning in Western Higher Education
Forest and Nature Conservation Thesis (MSc) -- Wageningen University, 2022.
Re-Membering Our Nations: Indigenous Custom Adoption and Determining Belonging Beyond the Indian Act
Political Science Thesis (MA) -- University of Calgary, 2022.
Les récits de notre terre: Les Mi'gmaq
Reconciliation through Revitalization
For use with the article The Big Land, the Kayak and Reconciliation! by Lisa Jane Smith found on page 24 of Remembering the Children.
[Record Group 10: Documents Relating to Residential and Day Schools]
Digitized versions of originals (1879-1949) mainly relating to day-to-day running of individual schools across Canada such as building maintenance, general administration, teachers' salaries and residences, and supplies. In some cases admissions and discharges (residential schools), death of pupils (residential schools), applications to teach, inspectors' reports, drugs and medical supplies for treatment of students, and vocational training supplies are also mentioned. Some headquarters files are included. Also included is link to indexes to the Indian Affairs School Files.
Red Mitten Nationalism : Sport, Commercialism, and Settler Colonialism in Canada
Remembering the Children Educator's Guide 2022
Topics include: teacher reflections, preparing for difficult conversations, the role of media coverage, daily life in residential schools, reconciliation through revitalization, and making reconciliation real.
For use with Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
Magazine-style publication features short articles about residential schools in general, as well as specific schools and highlights examples of reconciliation in action in the education system.
Related Material: Educator's Guide.
Report: False Claims of Indigenous Ancestry: Canada-Wide Survey of Canadians Understanding & Impressions
Reports results of online survey conducted from November 25-27, 2022 with sample of Canadian residents 18 years or older recruited form Leger's Opinion Panel; results were weighted using data from the 2021 Census.
RoadMap Project: Creating Paths for First Nations Prosperity
Goal of project is to support self-sufficiency and economic growth, improve fiscal capacity to govern while managing risk, increase transparency and accountability, and clarify governments' responsibility for service provision. Contains links to eight chapters and project summary.
"A serious rift": The Indigenous Health Research Community's Refusal of the 2014 CIHR Funding Reforms and Underlying Methodological Conservatism
Reviews reforms made by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to their Open Suite of Programs and Peer Review (OSP) processes and its impact on Indigenous health research.
Stories of Attachment for Northern Indigenous Families
Education Graduate Research Project (M.A) -- University of Northern British Columbia, 2011.
Storytelling, Identity Development, and Decolonial Pedagogies: Frameworks for Teaching Indigenous Literatures of the Great Lakes to Young Adult Readers
English Thesis (PhD) - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2022.
Survey of Indigenous-Owned Businesses: Select Results on Sources of Financing, Price and Wage Growth Expectations and Inflation Expectations
Results from telephone interviews with 2,603 First Nations, Inuit and Métis business owners between May 10 and September 22, 2021.
Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn about Family and Intergenerational Knowledge through the Art of Annie Pootoogook
Includes artist biography, learning activities, explanation of her style and technique, image file, and link to book about the artist.
Teaching Indigenous Health Within an Anti-Racist, Anti-Colonial Pedagogical Framework
Health Sciences Thesis (PhD) -- University of Manitoba, 2022.
Teaching Treaty Relationships: A Timeline Activity for Students
Uses date and relationship cards to educate students about First Nations and Newcomer interactions leading up to the signing of Treaty 1 in 1871.
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
Through Our Eyes: Expressions of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Cultures: Grade 9 NAC 10
Uses video clips by five Indigenous artists as a starting point for discussion, writing and research activities.
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.