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Aboriginal Perspectives General Lesson for the Web Site
Lesson plan for Grades 7-12 uses excerpts from five documentaries: The Caribou Hunters, Kanata : Legacy of the Children of Aataentsic, You Are on Indian Land, Riel Country and Circle of the Sun.
Aboriginal Perspectives Unit Guide for the Theme Sovereignty and Resistance
Lesson plan for Grades 7-12 uses excerpts from four documentaries: You Are on Indian Land, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Our Nationhood, and Dancing Around the Table, Part 1.
Annotated Bibliography of Aboriginal Books: Pre-School to Adult
Chíin: Salmon
Science unit also teaches Haida vocabulary. Intended for use with Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Connecting Cultures and Classrooms: K-12 Curriculum Guide (Language Arts, Science, Social Studies)
Currents: Exploring Traditional Aboriginal Justice Concepts in Contemporary Canadian Society
English 130: Nonfiction Study: Raising Ourselves by Velma Wallis
Evaluating American Indian Textbooks & Other Materials for the Classroom
Gáan: Berries
Primary science unit also teaches associated words and phrases in Haida. Suitable for Grades K-1.
Gin Xilaa: Plants
Ethnobotany lesson plan also teaches associated Haida words and phrases. Suitable for Grades K-2.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
The Girl Who Lived with the Bears
Retelling of traditional Tlingit story. Lesson plan for Grades 4-6.
Related Material: Teacher resource including Tlingit language wall cards, retelling materials, transformation story elements, reader's theatre script for The Woman Who Married a Bear, and calendar icons.
Gyáa'aang: Totem Poles
Lesson teaches the cultural significance of totems poles, how they're constructed and Haida vocabulary relating to them. Designed for Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Healing Historical Trauma: Relocation of Aboriginal Communities: Case Study
Hodinohsyo:nih Star Knowledge
Traditional stories include: The Seven Brothers (Big Dipper); Nya-Gwa-Ih, The Celestial Bear; The Seven Star Dancers; The Seven Brothers of the Star Cluster (Pleiades), Ga-Do-Waas and His Star Belt (Milky Way); and The Man-Eating Wife, the Little Old Woman and the Morning Star.
Haudenosaunee refers to the six nations (Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk), Onayotekaono (Oneida), Onandaga, Guyohkohnyoh (Cayuga), Onondowahgah (Seneca), and Skaruhreh (Tuscarora)) which comprise the Iroquois Confederacy.
How Raven Stole the Sun
Retelling of a traditional Tlingit story also known as Box of Daylight or How Raven Brought Light to the World. Lesson plan intended for Grades K-5.
Related Material: Teacher Resource.
Jim Thorpe: The World's Greatest Athlete: Study Guide
Kayaaní: Plants
Science unit also teaches Tlingit vocabulary. Lesson plan intended for use with Grades K-5.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Native American Music and Dance
Unit focuses on the Choctaw and Coushatta, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and Illinois cultures.
Nehiyawewin: Cree Language and Culture Guide to Implementation: Grade Ten to Grade Twelve: Draft
Noble Savage: Depictions of Native Americans throughout U.S. History
Unit involves students reading and evaluating images by Theodor DeBry, Simon van de Passes, Mathaeus Merian, D.F. Blanchard, George Catlin, John Gast, and Walter Ufer and contemporary photographs.
Numbered Treaties [Note Taking Frame]
Black line master designed for use with chapter Aboriginal Peoples and the Growing Nation of Canada in the Grade 6 Social Studies textbook Canada: A Country of Change (1867 to Present) by Graham Broad and Mathew Rankin.
Ojibwe Treaty Rights: Understanding and Impact
Designed to introduce younger readers to Ojibwe history, culture and exercising rights and resource management.
5th edition
Qallunaat: Why White People are Funny: Teacher's Guide and Student Worksheets
Selected Bibliography of American Indian Studies Resources for Students in Grades 7-12
Current as of 2006.
Tale of an Alaska Whale
Retelling of traditional Tlingit story also known as Naatsilanéi, The Origin of the Killer Whale or Kéet Shagoon. Literature unit also teaches Tlingit vocabulary. Lesson plans intended for Grades K-5.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
Ts'úu isgyáan Sgahláang = Yellow and Red Cedar
Science unit also teaches the Haida language. Intended for Grades K-2.
Related Material: Teacher Resources.
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis: Novel Study: English 120
We Have a Story to Tell: Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region
Weighted Student Formula
X’aat: Salmon
Science unit also teaches Tlingit vocabulary. Lesson plans intended for Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
X’aat: Salmon II
Science unit also teaches Tlingit vocabulary. Lessons plans intended for use with Grades 2-3.
Yaakwx': Canoes
Focuses on Tlingit language and culture. Lesson plan is for Grades 2-3.
Related Material: Teacher Resources.