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American Indian Issues: An Introductory and Curricular Guide for Educators
Contains links to historical overview and nine lesson plans, including: Mascots, Symbols, and Name; Federal Indian Policy: Historical Roots and 19th Century Policies; Indian Boarding Schools; Red Power; and American Indian Tribal Gaming.
Birth of a Family [Educational Version]
Building a Resilient and Prosperous North: Centre for the North Five-Year Compendium Report
Canada's Residential School Apology
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Assimilation with Education after the Indian Wars
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Manitoba Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. Activities align with Manitoba curriculum guides for Grade 6 Social Studies and Grade 11 History of Canada.
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Saskatchewan Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. This edition is aligned with the Saskatchewan provincial curriculum for History 30: Canadian Studies, Native Studies 10, and Native Studies 30.
Cumulative Impacts to FMFN#468 Traditional Lands & Lifeways: Shell Jackpine Mine Expansion and Pierre River Mine Report for Regulatory Hearings
Designing an Aboriginal Strategy.
Educating Inner-City Aboriginal Students: The Significance of Culturally Appropriate Instruction and Parental Support
Education for Reconciliation and Social Justice: Bringing the Shannen's Dream, Jordan's Principle and I am a Witness Campaigns into the Classroom
Final Report: Supporting Aboriginal Children and Youth With Learning and/or Behavioural Disabilities in the Care of Aboriginal Child Welfare Agencies
First Nations Agriculture in Saskatchewan
First Nations Women and Sustainability on the Canadian Prairies
From Where the Sun Rises: Addressing the Educational Achievement of Native Americans in Washington State
Grade 12 Current Topics in First Nations, Métis and Inuit Studies: A Foundation for Implementation
High School Counseling: Essential Services for Reservation Based Native Americans for Beginning Counselors
Hunters and Bombers: [Study Guide]
Indian Act and Treaties
Website includes links to three modules on treaties and five on the Indian Act and the reserve system.
Student worksheet for Indian Act and Treaties.
Indian Boarding Schools: A Case Study of Assimilation, Resistance, and Resilience
Indian Boarding Schools: Tools of Forced Assimilations, 1870 to the 1960s
Indian Residential Schools & Reconciliation: Teacher Resource Guide 11/12: Book 2: The Documentary Evidence
[Métis Scrip]: Lesson Plan
Designed for Grades 4-9.
Montana's Landless Indians and the Assimilation Era of Federal Indian Policy: A Case of Contradictions: Lessons for Grades 7-12
Title refers to the Chippewa, Cree and Métis.
Moving From Regret to Substantive Change: Reconciliation in Indigenous Education
Multiple Voices: Looking at the History of Batoche through the Eyes of Multiple Perspectives
Native American Boarding Schools: The Education and Cultural Transformation of American Indians under the United States Government Boarding Schools
Native American Music from Wounded Knee to the Billboard Charts: A Document Based Exploration
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 Life
[Orange Shirt Day (Residential Schools)]
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
The Plight of Ainu, Indigenous People of Japan
[Reserve Pass Lesson Plan: Social Studies 8]
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.
Residential School System in Canada: Understanding the Past – Seeking Reconciliation – Building Hope for Tomorrow: Teacher's Guide
A Review of First Nations Special Education Policies and Funding Directions within the Canadian Context
Square Peg, Round Hole: First Nations Drinking Water Infrastructure and Federal Policies, Programs, and Processes
Supporting a Comprehensive and Equitable Funding Framework: FNEC Rationale for Funding Formula For First Nations Elementary and Secondary Schools
Teacher Guide for High School for Use with the Educational DVD Contemporary Voices along the Lewis & Clark Trail
Film explores Tribal members' perspectives on traditional knowledge, history, the impact of early contact and westward expansion, the importance of language, and cultural continuity.
Teaching American Indian History with Primary Sources
Teaching with Documents: Memorandum Regarding the Enlistment of Navajo Indians
Towards the Financial Accessibility of Lifelong Learning: A First Nations Perspective: Paper Presented to the Advisory Committee on Financial Accessibility of Education (ACFAE)
Tribal Leaders Speak: The State of Indian Education, 2010: Report of the Consultations with Tribal Leaders in Indian Country
Tribes Confront Painful Legacy Of Indian Boarding Schools
Lesson plan uses text of newspaper article by Marsha King, originally published in the Seattle Times February 3, 2008.
Tsimshian Involvement in the Forest Sector
Recommended for Grade 10-11 Social Studies and First Nations Studies.
Turning First Nation Forest Values into Integrated Forest Management Plans: Two Models in Alberta
Two Worlds Collide, 1850-1887
Discusses the US government's wanted treaties in order to gain control of land, the treaties signed within Montana, tribal strategies for survival, and clashes between government troops and Indigenous warriors.
Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes.
Unit 9: Native Americans Teacher Guide: Grade 5
Related material: Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts Reader.