Aboriginal Report: How Are We Doing?: 2021/2022 Province, Public Schools Only
Data on performance of students in British Columbia. Includes demographic information and assessment outcomes at provincial level.
Data on performance of students in British Columbia. Includes demographic information and assessment outcomes at provincial level.
Designed for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Colouring book created for Ojibwe language immersion program. Text in Ojibwe with Ojibwe-English glossary.
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.
Uses primary sources of information on the Kamloops, Shubenacadie, Beauval, and Blue Quills residential schools. Suitable for use with students in Grades 5-12.
Results organized under six headings: demographics, language and culture, education and training, skills and work readiness, labour market indicators, and workplace wellbeing and culture.
Suitable for primary grades.
Colouring pages based on design that features plants and the animals associated with them.
Addresses the issue of individuals at the university benefiting from fraudulent claims of Indigenous identity.
Review looked at articles on cultural safety and competence training published between 1996-2020 in Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand.
A report addressing the false self-identifying of Indigenous heritage for personal benefit within the University of Saskatchewan.
For use with Grades 5-12.
Questions were asked about demographics, educational background and aspirations, factors of success, barriers to success, funding, support services, adverse experiences, COVID-19 pandemic, and inclusion of Indigenous peoples and knowledges on campus.
Examines the company's role in fostering the development, promotion, collection and market for Inuit art. Suitable for Grades 4 to 12.
Lists illustrated bboks, novels, videos, DVDs & film, short story/creative writing, and non-fiction for primary, intermediate, secondary grades.
Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.
Pre-reading activities, discussion questions, learning activities, and extension activities for Grades 4 to 6.
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.
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.
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.
Story is about a family throwing a party.
Reports on past, present and future initiatives undertaken by the Prince Edward Island government in response to the Calls for Justice listed in the report Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Excellent resource for providing an overview of a broad range of topics such as treaties, residential schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, the Sixties Scoop, traditional cultural teachings and protocols.
Based on the work of five focus groups located in Saskatoon, Regina, North Battleford, Prince Albert, and La Ronge.
"A Response to TRC's Call-To-Action 93".
Power Point presentation deals with the Métis residential school experience. Can be used with Grades 5-12.
Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
Interviews conducted with Alan Syliboy, Albert Marshall, Michelle Marshall-Johnson, Catherine Anne Martin, Morgan Toney, Gerald Gloade, and Michelle Syliboy.
Information compiled from secondary data sources such as Aboriginal Peoples Survey 2017 (APS) and Canadian Census of Population 2016 about off-reserve Status and Non-Status Indians, NunatuKavut Inuit, and Métis students represented by the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. Discusses access, success, student needs, funding requirements, funding distribution and mechanisms, and existing programs.
Intended for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students.
For use with the article The Big Land, the Kayak and Reconciliation! by Lisa Jane Smith found on page 24 of Remembering the Children.
Topics include: teacher reflections, preparing for difficult conversations, the role of media coverage, daily life in residential schools, reconciliation through revitalization, and making reconciliation real.
For use with Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
Magazine-style publication features short articles about residential schools in general, as well as specific schools and highlights examples of reconciliation in action in the education system.
Related Material: Educator's Guide.
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.
Reports findings from three surveys disseminated to teachers, curriculum leaders and representatives of professional education organizations in 2021.
For use with the book Suqak and the Raven (Inuktitut version).. Activities and discussion questions geared toward students in Kindergarten to Grade 3.
Includes artist biography, learning activities, explanation of her style and technique, image file, and link to book about the artist.
Pre-reading activities, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, and extension activities geared toward Grades 9 to 12.
Basic information on appropriate clothing, predicting weather, safe travel, and survival techniques.
For use with article Black and Indigenous by Oscar Baker III found on p. 12 of the special issue "Black History in Canada" of Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades 5 to 8.
Young adult novel is about Indigenous teenage girl who is caught between the real and virtual worlds. Recommended for Grades 7-12.
Colouring book created for Ojibwe language immersion program. Text in Ojibwe with Ojibwe-English glossary.