Literature Circle Guide to: Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Literature Circle Questions
Living Voices Native Vision: Study Guide
"The Look of Recognition": Transcultural Circulation of Trauma in Indigenous Texts
Louis Riel and the Métis People
Louis Riel: Changing Perceptions
Louisa May Alcott’s Wild Indians: Pedagogy of Love, Politics of Empire
[The Making of a Virtual Indian Residential School]
March Toward The Thunder: Discussion Guide
Media Reviews
Metis Timeline Game
Students participate in game involving the events leading up to and following the Red River Resistance, with special attention to Louis Riel.
The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School
[Model Teaching Unit for] Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac.
The Mystery of the Bell
Documentary looks into the disappearance and re-appearance of the 'The Bell of Batoche' which was proported to have been seized by soldiers during the North-West Resistance. Duration: 45:09.
Related Material: Teacher Resource Guide.
Native American Historical Resources
Native American History, Ethnohistory, and Context
Native American Indian Cultural Risk Factors: Contact to Termination
Native American Music from Wounded Knee to the Billboard Charts: A Document Based Exploration
Lesson uses interviews with Pat Vegas and Redbone from the documentary Rumble: The Indians That Rocked the World as a jumping-off point to examine the U.S. government's efforts to control Native American culture by way of music.
Native-Directed Social Change in Canada and the United States
Native Family Law, Indian Child Welfare Act and Tribal Sovereignty
A New Nation: The Métis
Chapter 9 of People and Stories of Canada to 1867 by Michele Visser-Wikkerink and E. Leigh Syms. Recommended by Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth as a Manitoba Grade 5 Social Studies learning resource.
The North-West Resistance of 1885
Northwest Changes
Power point looks at how the conflict between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company influenced events in the Red River Settlement which ultimately led to the Battle of Seven Oaks.
Not Just an Indigenous Problem: The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Efforts of Reconciliation
Note Taking Frame: 1885 Resistance
Black line master designed for use with chapter Manitoba Enters Confederation in the Grade 6 Social Studies textbook Canada: A Country of Change (1867 to Present) by Graham Broad and Mathew Rankin.