Alfabèt Michif = Alphabet Michif = Michif Alphabet
Pronunciation guide in Michif, English and French.
Pronunciation guide in Michif, English and French.
"Set in the mid-1600s, the books follow the daily seasonal lives of one family group of asiniskaw īthiniwak who live in northern Manitoba’s Rocky Cree territory along the Churchill River".
Teachers' resource uses works by Michael Barber, Carl Beam, Monique (Aura) Bedard, Janice Brant, Deron Ahsén:nase Douglas, Lorrie Gallant, Kelly Greene , Summer Hill, Janus, Nancy King (Chief Lady Bird), Quinn Smallboy and Saul Williams.
General information on choosing appropriate texts, common themes, copyright and protocol and dealing with sensitive content followed by an extensive list of material with annotations for grade level, description, themes and content cautions.
Designed for Grade 6 students.
Activities for the following titles: A Promise is a Promise; Awasis Bannock; Bowwow Powwow; Gifts from Raven; Go Show the World; How Raven Stole the Sun; I Like Who I Am; My Heart Fills with Happiness; Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak; Sweetest Kulu; Walk on the Shoreline; We Are Water Protectors; Windy Lake; and You Hold Me Up.
Simple activities and questions to help parents who are reading and discussing books with children.
Pictures of animals accompanied by their names in English and heritage Michif.
Pictures of animals accompanied by their names in English and Northern Michif.
Activities teach about types of maps, using a map grid, absolute and relative location, latitude and longitude, reading a key, determining directions, etc. Maps appear at end of document.
Website for virtual exhibit centred on the Battle of Duck Lake, the first armed engagement of the North West Resistance. Includes links to 110 images, the story of the battle from the differing perspectives of the museum, the Métis, civilians and military, and First Nations and brief biographies of Gabriel Dumont, Louis Riel, Hillyard Mitchell, L.N.F. Crozier, and Acheson Gosford Irvine.
Intended for Grade 4 Social Studies.
Artwork designed by youth artists from the Six Nations, Grand River Territory.
Lesson plans which can be used with a variety of grades.
Series of eight modules designed to teach Grade 6 students about the importance of biodiversity, local community and Indigenous knowledge by creating gardens. Each module should take place over the course of a week.
Brief list arranged under headings leaves and plants, berries, and barks, with location, description and uses.
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Elaine Alexie, Erik Lee, and Carmen Miller. Topics include First Nations groups of central Alberta and the Boreal forest, brief survey of Indigenous art in the twentieth century, abstract art, and First Nations traditional art forms and materials.
Power point and slide notes.
Website contains links to educational material for Kindergarten to Grade 12, including summary of housing topics, lessons plans, E-learning games and guides, and activity booklets. Content is arranged around 4 themes: traditional teaching of the community, First Nations housing topics, home maintenance and home safety.
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather regain his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 9-13 (Grades 4-7) who have completed three or more years of Cree language instruction.
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.
Includes description of the Harvest4Knowledge, Indigenous Foodscapes, Local Foods to School programs in British Columbia and five lesson plans.
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.
Colouring book teaches words in Northern and Heritage Michif and English.
Designed for Grade 12 Social Studies classes. Focuses on the numbered treaties signed in Manitoba.
List of resources grouped by Grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12. Some are specific to Michigan, but most are general.
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.
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.
Photographs relating to Metis culture accompanied by brief explanations in French, Michif and English.
Created for Grades 10-12.
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.
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.
"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.
Lesson plan about the Mohawk men who worked the high steel in New York City. For use with The Mohawks Who Built Manhattan by Renee Valois.
Related video High Steel.
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
Moose Hide Campaign is an Indigenous-led movement to engage men and boys in preventing violence against women and children. Site includes links to teacher resources such as a curriculum guide, lesson plans, and videos.
Lists names of months in a wide variety of North American Indigenous languages.
Lists English translations of cultural groups' names for: the Milky Way, North Star, Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, Cassiopeia, Pleiades, Corona Borealis, Scorpius, and Aurora Borealis.
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
Maps Indigenous territories around the world. Can be filtered by location, language, and treaties and superimposed with settler labels. Includes links to resources such as teacher's guide, mobile apps, and lists of territories, languages, and treaties.
Related Material: The Land You Live On Education Guide.
Children's book.