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Lakota Culture
Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.
Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.
Land and Water Based Education
Focus on Mi'kmaw culture and Nova Scotia, but lessons could be adapted to other contexts. Lesson plans for all levels as well individual grades.
Land-Based Learning
Land of Oil and Water: Educational Resource
Land Use Planning Policy in the Far North Region of Ontario: Conservation Targets, Politics of Scale, and the Role of Civil Society Organizations in Aboriginal–State Relations
The Learning Circle: Classroom Activities on First Nations in Canada: Ages 8 to 11
Learning from the Land: Resources and Stories from K-12 Schools to Support Engagement with Indigenous Plants and Pedagogy
Includes description of the Harvest4Knowledge, Indigenous Foodscapes, Local Foods to School programs in British Columbia and five lesson plans.
Learning Guide: The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest
For use with book of same name, written by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read. Lesson plans for Grades 4-7 correspond to each chapter in the book.
Leetsoii Means “Yellow Dirt” in the Navajo Language: Troubling Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands
Lesson Plan: Coastal Salish Canoes and Paddles
Recommended for Grades 4-8.
Lesson Plan:; S'Klallam Duck Hunting
Recommended for Grades 4-8.
Lesson Plan: Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger
Lesson: The 13 Moons
Lessons from the Earth and Beyond: Bringing Indigenous Knowledge Systems into the Classroom: Educator Resources
Website includes curriculum connections, lesson plans and inquiry-based activities for primary, junior and intermediate grades for three topics: lessons from the earth, lessons from the water, and lessons from beyond.
Living and Working in Oona River: A Teacher’s Guide
Recommended for Grade 11 Social Studies.
Additional material: The River People: Living and Working in Oona River student resource book.
Living Traditions: Museums Honour the North American Indigenous Games
Local Protest and Resistance to the Rupert Diversion Project, Northern Quebec
Lords of the Arctic [Study Guide]
Lost in Translation?: Maya in Belize Hope to Set Historic FPIC Precedent
Lubicon Court Actions, 1973-1988
Lyell Island (Athlii Gwaii) Case Study: Social Innovation by the Haida Nation
Ma'iingan
Children's story about the relationship between the Ojibwe and the wolf; in English and Ojibwe.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Maintaining the Ways of Our Ancestors: Indigenous Women Address Food Sovereignty
Makwa
Children's story about black bears in English and Ojibwe.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
The Management of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada's Western Arctic: Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans
Managing Legitimacy in Ecotourism
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Educator Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Student Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
Manitoba First Nations Species at Risk Lesson Plans
Manoominikeyaang
Children's story about harvesting wild rice; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
Mapping Songs, Mapping Histories: The Negotiation of Cultural Perspectives on Gitxsan Territory
Math First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide: Elementary and Secondary
Meaningful Involvement of Aboriginal Peoples in Environmental Assessment: Final Report
Includes three case studies: Namgis First Nation and the Orca Sand and Gravel Project, Tahltan Iskut First Nation and the Galore Creek Project, and Union of New Brunswick Indians and the Emera Pipeline.
Métis Agriculture in Saskatchewan
Métis Traditional Food Number 1
Lesson plan for Grades 1-4 involves students learning about bannock, fried Saskatoon berries, and goose, making bannock, and Michif words associated with cooking and food.
Métis Traditional Food Number 2
Lesson plan for Grades 4-7 involves students learning and speaking Michef words associated with food and cooking, learning about bannock, fried Saskatoon berries, and goose, and making bannock.
Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh = This Is How I Know, Written by Brittany Luby, Illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, Translated by Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere
"An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother explore the natural wonders of each season in this lyrical, bilingual story-poem." Intended for use with ages 3 to 7.
Mikesew Cree First Nation Traditional Land Use Impact Assessment: Husky Sunrise Thermal Project
Mikinaak
Children's storybook about the snapping turtle; in Ojibwe and English.
Accompanying Material: Colouring Book and Supplemental Document.
[Mining Capitalism: The Relationship Between Corporations and Their Critics]
Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities
Mino-Te-Mah-Ti-Zee-Win = A Good Way of Life: Colouring Book
Modern Treaties in Canada
Links to six one-hour courses on comprehensive land claims agreements. Themes include general overview, modern treaties and land, self-government, and regional economics, modern treaty governments, and environment protection, regulation and assessment.
Montana Skies: Blackfeet Astronomy
Includes traditional stories about the girl who married a star, the bunched stars and scarface and associated activities.
Additional Resource: Videos of stories read aloud.
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.
Moon of the Crusted Snow: Reading Guide
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
"More Precious Than Gold": Indigenous Water Governance in the Context of Modern Land Claims in Yukon
Mother Earth, Grandfather Sun
A "two-eyed" seeing activity for teaching about solstices and equinoxes.