An American Indian Perspective on Columbus: An Indian Education Curriculum Unit
Purpose of guide is to present educators with accurate information about the "discovery" of America and provide classroom resources to approach the topic in a new way.
Purpose of guide is to present educators with accurate information about the "discovery" of America and provide classroom resources to approach the topic in a new way.
Examines a collaboration between the Walpole Island First Nation and the neighboring Wallaceburg District Secondary School to improve the education of Indigenous students and what can be learned to address persistent educational issues for Indigenous populations nationwide.
Examines the use of computers and technology to help preserve Indigenous culture, history, and language for future generations to learn from.
Examines the shift from a 70% non-Indigenous student population in 1970's to only 3% by 1991 at the Kitaskinaw school located on the Enoch reservation.
Discusses the hindrances for Indigenous parents to influence the education of their children.
Villebrun discusses discrimination and low self-esteem issues; alcohol and drug abuse; the need to make Aboriginal history mandatory and a priority in Canadian schools; the intergenerational effects of cultural deprivation; and the need to better equip youth for "living in two cultures."
Examines the social and academic failures of Indigenous students moving from Indigenous controlled schools, where they were successful, to non-Indigenous run high schools.