Kespeadooksit (The Story Is Ended): A Bibliography of Native American Materials In Print: Handicapped Accessible Formats
Key Moments in Indigenous History
Kidnapped Stó:lō Boys
Video tells the story of Sto:lo boys who were taken from their homes by prospectors for the purpose of using them as labourers in the California goldfields and the community's commemoration of the event.
Duration: 19:38.
Kids' Stop
Kimaaciihtoomin e-anishinaabe-kikinoo'amaageyak: Beginning to Teach in an Indigenous Way: Resource Kit
kimotinâniwiw itwêwina = Stolen Words Written by Melanie Florence; Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard: Guide to the Plains Cree Edition
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.
Kindergarten and Early Learning Menu L
Lesson plans for math, literacy and French as a second language using themes from the books The Water Walker, Sharing Our Stories, When We Are Kind, and Let's Play Waltes.
A Kindergarten Curriculum Guide for Indian Children: A Bilingual-Bicultural Approach
Note age of publication. Some suggestions may no longer be considered appropriate.
Kindergarten Treaty Education Learning Resource
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Getting to Know My Community" inquiry questions about spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
King Lear
Kinikinik: A Treaty Play
Uses the characters of turtle, wolf and beaver to educate the audience about treaties and the treaty relationship. Suitable for all ages.
Related Material: Student Workbook.
Kinoomawaaying g'E'kinoomaagenig Kinoomawaaying gdo Kinoomaagnag Anishnaabe Ganawaamdamig = Educating Our Educators, Educating our Students: An Aboriginal Focus: A Guide for Staff
Kiuguyat: The Northern Lights
Indigenous Alaskans discuss their experience of the aurora borealis. Duration: 25:25.
Kiviuq and the Bee Woman By Noel McDermott, Illustrated by Toma Feizo Gas: Educator's Resource
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Kiviuq and the Mermaids by Noel McDermott, Illustrated by Toma Feizo Gas: Educator's Resource
Pre-reading activities, discussion questions, learning activities, and extension activities for Grades 4 to 6.
Kiviuq's Journey: Traditional Story Study
Students follow the adventures of an Inuit hunter who is swept out to sea in a storm and must find his way home. Geared toward Grades 10 to 12.
Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science: Book Two
Kon and the Circle of Life
Primary reading level storybook.
Kw’í:ts’téleq
Page contains links to individual isssues of the comic book about a Stó:lō boy who escapes residential school and goes on a journey to learn from the ancestors about ways Stó:lō communities can work together.
The Kwakwaka'wakw: A Study of a North Pacific Coast People and the Potlatch
Lakota Culture
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.
Lakota Winter Counts: The Teachers' Guide
Land and Water Based Education
Focus on Mi'kmaw culture and Nova Scotia, but lessons could be adapted to other contexts. Lesson plans for all levels as well individual grades.
Land-Based Learning
Land Claim Literacy and Algonquin Territory
Lesson plan for Grades 7-12 for use with the article Algonquin Territory by Peter Di Gangi.
Land of Oil and Water: Educational Resource
Land of the Long Day
Film shows daily activities of an Inuit community during an Arctic summer on Alukseevee Island in 1953. Duration: 37: 57.
Related material: Documentary Lens Lesson Plan.
Language Challenges of Aboriginal Students in Canadian Public Schools
The Language of Success
ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱
WSANEC (Saanich) great flood story. Text in a mixture of English and SENĆOŦEN.
Related material: Lesson Plan by Shauna White and Kathryn Godfrey appropriate for Grade 6 language arts/ social studies.
Learn about Western Canada in the Early 1900s through the Art of C.D. Hoy: Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 7-12
Hoy was a photographer who worked in Quesnel, British Columbia at the start of the twentieth century, when the Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Rushes were taking place, resulting in different cultural groups coming together in one location. Many of his portraits were of Indigenous people living in the area. Designed to complement the online exhibition Through the Lens of C.D. Hoy: How a Chinese Canadian Photographer Memorialized a Community.
Learning about the Stolen Generations: The National Sorry Day Committee's School Resource
The Learning Circle: Classroom Activities on First Nations in Canada: Ages 12 to 14
The Learning Circle: Classroom Activities on First Nations in Canada: Ages 8 to 11
The Learning Circle: Five Voices of Aboriginal Youth in Canada, a Learning Resource For Ages 14 to 16
Learning from the Land: Resources and Stories from K-12 Schools to Support Engagement with Indigenous Plants and Pedagogy
Includes description of the Harvest4Knowledge, Indigenous Foodscapes, Local Foods to School programs in British Columbia and five lesson plans.
Learning from the Source: Comparing Reports of the Battle of Little Bighorn
Teaching resource involves students looking at primary documents and comparing newspaper coverage to eyewitness accounts.
Learning Guide: The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest
For use with book of same name, written by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read. Lesson plans for Grades 4-7 correspond to each chapter in the book.
Learning Resources Evaluation Guidelines
Includes information on the process, guiding principles, general and specific criteria, types of learning resources, oral literature and terminology.
Learning With Literature in the Canadian Elementary Classroom: Aboriginal Authors & Illustrators
The Legacy of Bob Boyer: A Teacher's Guide
The Legend of the Fog by Qaunaq Mikkigak and Joanne Schwartz, illustrated by Danny Christopher; Educator's Resource
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.
Legend of Wesakayjack and the Loon: As Told by the Norway House Elders
Written for primary students.
Related Material: Story without text.
Legends and Stories from the Past: A Teaching Resource for Dene Kede Grades K-9
Legends of Our Times: Native Ranching and Rodeo Life on the Plains and Plateau
Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Activity and Resources
Website contains links to game in which students make choices about what the Red River Settlement's people should do leading up to the creation of Manitoba; teacher resources; and other resources arranged by theme.
Related Material: From the Past Into the Future: Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Teacher’s Guide.