How Coyote Created the Sun
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
Retelling of a traditional story.
Children's book retells a Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
Retelling of a traditional story.
Language arts activities in Inuktitut and English for students in Grades 2 and 3.
Geared toward Kindergarten to Grade 3. Story is about a Inuit girl who learns about traditional naming practices.
Salish artist retells the traditional story while drawing step-by-step visual interpretation.
Duration: 1:30:23.
Retelling of a traditional Tlingit story also known as Box of Daylight or How Raven Brought Light to the World. Lesson plan intended for Grades K-5.
Related Material: Teacher Resource.
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.
Story about a group of children who are pursued by a weetigo but escape with the help of Wesakaychak.
Stories collected from storytellers and writers from Fort Resolution, Hay River, Fort Smith, and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Text in Chipewyan and English.
Lesson plans for use with the stories The Little Duck Sikihpsis, The Good Luck Cat, Jingle Dancer, The Moccasins, and Red Parka Mary.
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.
Script adapted from one of the short stories in Indian Shoes. Through students reading parts in script activity is meant to develop reading fluency.
To be used in conjunction with book by Thomas King. Compilation includes information about the author, interviews, book reviews and discussion questions, as well as general article on Understanding and Navigating Privilege While Travelling.
Lesson plans which can be used with a variety of grades.
Focuses on Indigenous vs. non-Indigenous representations of Indigenous peoples and their stories in film.
Additional material:
Children's storybook retells the Northern Cheyenne traditional story about insects who go to war because they have nothing to do. Suitable for use with elementary students.
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.
Student handout.
Lists illustrated bboks, novels, videos, DVDs & film, short story/creative writing, and non-fiction for primary, intermediate, secondary grades.
Primary-level storybook.
Lesson plan to accompany the book Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith and illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. Designed for use with Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.