The Feast System
Brief descriptions of the potlatch, first salmon ceremony and first root festival.
Brief descriptions of the potlatch, first salmon ceremony and first root festival.
Designed for Grade 5 science. Lesson number 2.
Students analyze Winter in the Blood by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,
Book is Margaret Pokiak-Fenton's memoir about attending residential school for two years. This lesson plan uses Grade 6 Program Learning Outcome (PLO)s.
Contains links to three modules: Sourcing Food, Learning European Methods, and Preventing Success.
Resource for teaching about the impact of settlement and colonization.
Suitable for use with Grade 7 and 8 students.
Designed for Grade 3 Social Studies classes. Students learn about indigenous inventions and discoveries and how they helped European settlers.
Includes book summaries, literacy prompt questions, and enrichment activities for books appropriate to each grade. Revised Version.
Recommended for Grades 9-10 social Studies.
Case law summary of the major Aboriginal rights and title litigation, and an outline of the resulting forest and range agreements that British Columbia has entered into with community members.
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.
Retelling of traditional Cherokee story which illustrates to importance of respect. Recommended for preschool and Kindergarten.