Treaty Ed Learning Experiences
Special focus on Mi'kmaw culture and history. Lesson plans for Grades 4-9.
Special focus on Mi'kmaw culture and history. Lesson plans for Grades 4-9.
Involves an alien race arriving to inhabit earth and that the only hope for their continued existence is to sign a treaty. Students need to decide what aspects of their lifestyle they want to preserve and include them in the treaty terms. Leaders sign a document written in symbols they don't understand and subsequently legislation is enacted which makes the original inhabitants wards of the state.
Additional material:
Speakers discuss how the Act has defined the government's and Crown's relationship with First Nations peoples; how it has impeded development of communities; and how fundamental changes are needed to give First Nations' control over governance and the ability to develop mechanisms to improve access to capital.
Duration: 1:09:15.
Discusses the determinants which predict need, mechanisms which explain them, relationship between unaffordability, inadequacy, and unsuitability, and the policy options available for addressing the problem.