Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Alanis Obomsawin
Description
Classroom version of documentary about Shannen's Dream, a campaign for on-reserve access to the same educational opportunities and facilities as other Canadian children.
Duration: 59:59.
Related material:
Mini-Lesson.
Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art
Alternate Title
21st Century Learning – Links to Our Collection
Twenty-First Century Learning - Links to Our Collection
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Glenbow Museum
Description
Presents digitized images and lesson plans to enhance teaching and learning about First Nations art.
Idle No More: A Protest for Aboriginal Rights
Alternate Title
New in Review ; March 2013
Documents & Presentations
Description
Teacher resource guide.
In Brief: Idle No More
Alternate Title
In Brief (Ontario Justice Education Network)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario Justice Education Network
Description
Background and history of the movement, explanation of the Acts involved, and discussion questions.
For use in Grades 10, 11, and 12 classrooms.
Indian Education for All Model Teaching Units: Language Arts - Elementary Level, Volume One
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Education for All Unit, Montana Office of Public Instruction
Description
Lesson plans for use with the stories The Little Duck Sikihpsis, The Good Luck Cat, Jingle Dancer, The Moccasins, and Red Parka Mary.
Indian Education for All Model Teaching Units: Language Arts - Elementary Level, Volume Two
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Education for All Unit, Montana Office of Public Instruction
Description
Lesson plans for use with the stories Where Did You Get Your Moccasins?, The Gift of the Bitterroot, Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story, and The War Shirt.
Indian Education for All Traditional Games Unit
Alternate Title
Indian Education for All International Traditional Games
Indian Education for All Unit
Traditional Games Unit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
International Games Society
Description
Resource contains instructions for specific games suitable in Kindergarten to Grade Ten classrooms.
Indian Horse Study Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Elevation Pictures?]
Description
To accompany film based on the book of the same name by Richard Wagamese.
Indigenous Literature Kit: Growing Our Collective Understanding of Truth and Reconciliation: Kindergarten - Grade 12
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Billie-Jo Grant
Charlotte Kirchner
Phyllis Kelly
Nicole Wenger
Rhonda Nixon
Description
For each title there is an annotation as well as information on related titles, terms and key concepts, sensitivities, themes and topics at a glance, recommended grade level, and project, ideas and activities. Although developed to be used with Alberta curriculum, most information is applicable elsewhere.
Industrial Impacts and Indigenous Representation: Some Fallacies in the Sámi Quest For Autonomy
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ivar Bjørklund
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, Développement industriel et impacts miniers / Industrial Development and Mining Impacts, 2013, pp. 145-160
Description
Reports on the fact that Indigenous political participation is territorially defined in Canada but is not in Norway, therefore representation can be diluted.
International Comparison of Solutions to Aboriginal Rights Issues Associated With Mineral Development: Free, Prior and Informed Consent: The Canadian Context
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alexandria J. Pike
Sarah V. Powell
Description
Contends that Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) can help to build constructive and mutually beneficial relationships between mining companies and Aboriginal communities.
Part of: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute (2013)
Justice for Aboriginal Peoples: It's Time
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Public Service Alliance of Canada
Description
Brief video designed to educate the general population about why Aboriginals are not "just getting over it".
Duration: 5:48.
Keepers of the Water: Exploring Anishinaabe and Métis Women's Knowledge of Water and Participation in Water Governance in Kenora, Ontario
Theses
Author/Creator
Natasha J. Szach
Description
Natural Resources Management (M.N.R.M)--University of Manitoba, 2013.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Traditions Regarding Water Consumption and Sanitary Practices of the Ngäbe-Buglé Indigenous Women in the Chiriquí Province in Panama
Alternate Title
Knowledge, Attitudes and Traditions Regarding Water Consumption and Sanitary Practices of the Ngabe-Bugle Indigenous Women in the Chiriquí Province in Panama
Theses
Author/Creator
Natalia Vega
Description
Public Health Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of South Florida, 2013
Kon and the Circle of Life
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Saskatchewan
Description
Primary reading level storybook.
Law, Literature, and Leslie Marmon Silko: Competing Narratives of Water
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jane Griffith
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 26-48
Description
Comments on a character, Wilson Weasel Tail, from the novel Almanac of the Dead
Learning about the Stolen Generations: The National Sorry Day Committee's School Resource
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Sorry Day Committee
Little Butterfly Girl: An Indian Residential School Story
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jenny Restoule-Mallozzi
Description
Storybook suitable for readers aged nine to twelve.
Maintaining the Ways of Our Ancestors: Indigenous Women Address Food Sovereignty
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jessie Cherofsky
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 4, The Future We Want: Indigenous Women of the World Unite, December 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discussion on improving and preserving native food systems that are ecologically sustainable and culturally appropriate.
Manifestations of Colonialism in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Sarah McGann
Description
Immigration and Settlement Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Ryerson University, 2013.
MEW Outcomes Report
Alternate Title
Making Education Work (MEW): Outcomes Report 2013
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Proactive Information Services Inc.
Description
Overview of project to determine if additional services to high school students could assist grades 10 to 12 stay in school and meet graduation requirements. Involved 277 Aboriginal students at six sites across Manitoba.
Map of Community Involvement.
Michif Language Research, Literature Review, Teaching Resources and Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
David Morin
Description
List includes peer-reviewed and grey literature, on-line resources, oral histories, language videos, audio tapes, and CDs.
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
Alternate Title
Anishinaabe / Chippewa / Ojibwe Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses, children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
Mvskoke (Creek) Customs and Traditions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Muscogee (Creek) Nation]
Description
Brief overview of the Mvskoke (Muscogee) people.
Native American Assimilation Through Education
Alternate Title
Waynesburg University TPS Unit
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Megan Fortna
Victoria Stapf
Description
Presents lesson plans for an eighth grade educational unit.
Native American Music from Wounded Knee to the Billboard Charts: A Document Based Exploration
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
TeachRock
Description
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 Americans: Regions and Cultures Tell It Again!™: Read-Aloud Anthology
Alternate Title
Core Knowledge Language Arts: Listening & Learning Strand: Grade 3
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Rosie McCormick]
Description
Related Material: Image Flip Book
Native Americans Supplemental Guide to the Tell It Again!™ Read-Aloud Anthology: Listening & Learning™ Strand Kindergarten
Alternate Title
Core Knowledge Language Arts
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Beth Engel]
[Rosie McCormick]
[Cate Whittington]
Description
Related Material: Image Cards.
[Native Education Resource LIst]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Education and Aboriginal Services
SD #78 (Fraser-Cascade)
Description
Extensive list of storybooks and novels, colour-coded for grade level and annotated.
Native Life
Alternate Title
CANADIANHISTORY.CA: The Many Histories of Canada
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
J .R. Miller
Description
Overview of Aboriginal history from the 1850s to 2000. Could be used as an educational resource for high school students.
Native North Americans in Literature for Youth: A Selective Annotated Bibliography for K-12
Alternate Title
Literature for Youth ; no. 14
E-Books
Native Peoples of North America
E-Books
Author/Creator
Susan Stebbins
Nehiwayak: Traditions of the Cree People
Alternate Title
21st Century Learning - Nehiwayak: Traditions of the Cree People
21st Century Learning – Links to Our Collection
Twenty-First Century Learning - Links to Our Collection
Twenty-First Century Learning - Nehiwayak: Traditions of the Cree People
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Glenbow Museum
Description
Presents digitized images and lesson plans to enhance teaching and learning about the Cree people and their cultural traditions.
New Beginnings: How Canada's Natural Resource Wealth Could Re-shape Relations With Aboriginal People
Alternate Title
Aboriginal Canada and the Natural Resource Economy Series ; 1
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ken Coates
Brian Lee Crowley
Description
Looks at engagement, collaboration and growing Aboriginal empowerment within resource development.
New Relationships on the Northwest Frontier: Episodes in the Gitxsan and Witsuwit'en Encounter with Colonial Power
Theses
Author/Creator
Tyler Allan McCreary
Description
Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2013.
Nipi and Mother Earth
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Saskatchewan
Description
Primary reading level storybook.
Ontological Conflicts Concerning Indigenous Peoples in Contemporary Brazil
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vanessa R. Lea
ab-Original, vol. 1, no. 2, 2017, pp. 151-175
Description
Author examines the ongoing conflicts between Indigenous peoples and state government in Brazil, notes that at the root of the conflict is a profound difference in worldview and what is an appropriate use of resources. Where Indigenous perspective advocate for subsistence use, state governing bodies are tied to extractive practices and focus on growth centered economies.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eight: Foreigners Invade Your Country Simulation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eleven: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Seven: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Ten: Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Nursery/Preschool/Kindergarten. Day 1: : First Nation Creation Stories
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Oral Narratives, Customary Laws and Indigenous Water Rights in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Marlowe Gregory Sam
Description
Interdisciplinary/Indigenous Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Okanagan), 2013.
Our Roots: Stampede School
Alternate Title
Our Roots: Canada's Local Histories Online
Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Website explores connection between the Treaty 7 First Nations and Calgary Stampede.
Our Way Is a Valid Way: Professional Educator Resource - A WNCP Professional Development Resource for Educators
E-Books
Author/Creator
Western and Northern Canadian Protocol for Collaboration in Basic Education
Description
Related material: Our Way Is a Valid Way: Personal Educator Reflections.