Banned Practice: The Potlatch and British Columbia, 1803-1953
Compilation of primary documents.
Compilation of primary documents.
Discusses the consultation, or lack there of, between the Canadian government and its Indigenous populations in regards to green energy policies.
Timeline of significant events, government policies, and resistance movements in the United States from 3000 BC through to 2020.
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Historical note:
David Ahenakew (born July 28, 1933) is a Canadian First Nations politician, and former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Ahenakew is a controversial public figure in Canada due to anti-semetic comments regarding World War 2 and the Holocaust.Uses archival material as a starting point to teach about the influence of the treaty relationship on Canadian identity and how historical events have shaped contemporary Canadian identity.
Historical note:
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.