[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Discussion on reviving traditional storytelling techniques, in new forms, and challenging the Canadian literary tradition.
Looks at a fictional visionary's dream about the horrors that await the First Nations of the Americas.
Includes five stories: Raven and Bear; Raven and Fishduck; Raven and Mole; Raven and Skatefish; and Raven and Eagle.
Discussion on Inuit poetry; and the difference between the contemporary Canadian poetic tradition and that of the traditional Inuit.
Investigates how attitudes changed between European and Indigenous Canadians in early literature.