Montana Skies: Crow Astronomy
Includes traditional stories about the sun and the moon, seven stars, and the twins and the hand star and associated activities for each.
Additional Resource: Videos of stories read aloud.
Includes traditional stories about the sun and the moon, seven stars, and the twins and the hand star and associated activities for each.
Additional Resource: Videos of stories read aloud.
To accompany book written by Waubgeshig Rice which tells the story of a small northern Anishinaabe community which finds itself completely isolated from the external world just as winter sets in. The key to survival is reconnecting with the land. Guide is arranged around the themes of land, colonialism, community, gender, language, traditions and culture, and real world events.o accompany story written by
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2000.
Discusses Mourning Dove's legend story,The House of Little Men, which contains elements of assimilation and illustrates the writer's storytelling skills.
Story describes the movement of stars associated with the cycle of the seasons.
Story suitable for Grades K-3.
Historical fiction about Sylvester Joe, a Mi'kmaq guide hired by William Epps Cormack to help him find the last remaining Beothuk camps on Newfoundland. Lesson plan suitable for Grades 7 to 12.
Recommended grade level 8 and up. Book is about a girl's life at residential school and her contrasting life at home before she was sent there.
Includes brief discussion of Mourning Dove, text of the traditional story and student exercises.
Student lesson to accompany the Iroquois creation story.