A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786-89
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Author/Creator
James Colnett
Historical note:
A video produced in 1986 for Northern Lights School Division No. 113 with funding from the Saskatchewan Educational Development Fund.Discusses wampum belts, produced by tribes of the Eastern seaboard from 1600 to 1800, including their distinct beadwork styles, their functions and the practice of reuse of beads.
Discusses the history of the fur trade in the Northwest Territories and contemporary trapping practices, and gives detailed instructions for making snowshoes, kamiks, spruce canoes, and trap sets and preparing and eating country food.
Chronology of the laws that created and enforced Indian Residential Schools.
Uses techniques involved in creating a Coast Salish blanket to teach concepts of slope and equations in Grade 10 Mathematics Curriculum.