Aboriginal Elders: A Grade 12 Unit Lesson Plan
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Discusses the importance of respect for Elders, their role as sources of knowledge, community leaders and carriers of culture, and the value of orality and learning through stories and conversation.
Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.
Discusses the self-government issues of legitimacy, power and resources, by using examples of current agreements. The article breaks the areas down in terms of: basic principles, rights through treaties, federal-provincial division of power, status of lands, legislative powers, and funding.
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Results from the federally-funded program which supports schools in investing in a comprehensive change process.
Developed for Grades 7 and 8. Students compare and contrast the two leaders' responses to the events of the late nineteenth century; one confrontational, the other conciliatory. Designed to supplement material found in Chapter 7 of Montana: Stories of the Land.
Involves students researching leaders Nicolle Gonzalez, Roxanne White, Madonna Thunderhawk, and Auntie Pua Case and their work using ancestral knowledge to protect the sacred.
Designed to accompany videos featuring Inuit, First Nations, and Metis leaders.
Topics include: meaning of governance and traditional governance and justice systems, education, economy, technology, health andgovernance and justice systems.
"Revised 2nd edition."