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Artists' Connection 5: Indigenous Perspectives
Teachers' resource uses works by Michael Barber, Carl Beam, Monique (Aura) Bedard, Janice Brant, Deron Ahsén:nase Douglas, Lorrie Gallant, Kelly Greene , Summer Hill, Janus, Nancy King (Chief Lady Bird), Quinn Smallboy and Saul Williams.
Authentic First Peoples Resources for Grades 10 to 12 and Adult Learning
General information on choosing appropriate texts, common themes, copyright and protocol and dealing with sensitive content followed by an extensive list of material with annotations for grade level, description, themes and content cautions.
Background Information: First Nations of British Columbia
The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World
Discusses the importance of the Indigenous invention in the development of Canada.
Additional Material: The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World: 21st Century Curriculum Connections and Video Resource for Manitoba Teachers (Grades 5-9).
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators: 2020-2021
Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper
[Children's Book Activity Sheets for Home-Based Learning]
Children’s Book Activity Sheets for Home-Based Learning
Activities for the following titles: A Promise is a Promise; Awasis Bannock; Bowwow Powwow; Gifts from Raven; Go Show the World; How Raven Stole the Sun; I Like Who I Am; My Heart Fills with Happiness; Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak; Sweetest Kulu; Walk on the Shoreline; We Are Water Protectors; Windy Lake; and You Hold Me Up.
Simple activities and questions to help parents who are reading and discussing books with children.
The Duty to Consult and Accommodate Aboriginal Groups in Canada
An Explorer's Guide to Treaties in Manitoba: An Exercise in Mapping Skills
Activities teach about types of maps, using a map grid, absolute and relative location, latitude and longitude, reading a key, determining directions, etc. Maps appear at end of document.
Findings and Recommendations Prepared by the Bureau of Indian Education Study Group Submitted to the Secretaries of the Departments of the Interior and Education
First Nations Diary: Documenting Daily Life
Resource for teaching about the impact of settlement and colonization.
Suitable for use with Grade 7 and 8 students.
First Nations Health and Wellness Colouring Book
[Fur Trade Learning Plan]
Intended for Grade 4 Social Studies.
Grade 1: Connections between People, the Land and Features in Their Communities
Grade 2: Celebrations of Giving Thanks and Acknowledgement
Grade 3: Water the Gift of Life: Investigating Environmental Impacts
Grade 4: Investigating Early Societies on Turtle Island
Grade 6: Our National Identity: Canada's Diverse Communities
Grade 7: Expansion of the Hudson's Bay Company: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Grade 8: Investigating Consequences of Residential Schooling in Canada
Grade 8: Investigating Historical Significanace: A Métis Timeline
Group of Six Coloring & Activity Book
Artwork designed by youth artists from the Six Nations, Grand River Territory.
The Hours That Remain by Keith Barker: Study Guide
How I Survived Four Nights on the Ice: Educator's Resource
Indigenous Plant Guide
Brief list arranged under headings leaves and plants, berries, and barks, with location, description and uses.
Interpretive Guide and Hands-on Activites: The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program: ᐊᐧᐃᐧᓯᐦᒋᑲᐣ = Wawisihcikan = Adornment
Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Elaine Alexie, Erik Lee, and Carmen Miller. Topics include First Nations groups of central Alberta and the Boreal forest, brief survey of Indigenous art in the twentieth century, abstract art, and First Nations traditional art forms and materials.
Introducing Métis People: Taking a Look at Métis People in Canada
Power point and slide notes.
Keeyask Generation Project: Report on Public Hearing
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.
Let's Learn Michif!
Colouring book teaches words in Northern and Heritage Michif and English.
Localizing Treaty Education
Designed for Grade 12 Social Studies classes. Focuses on the numbered treaties signed in Manitoba.
Maawndoonganan: Anishinaabe Resource Manual to Accompany the State Michigan Social Studies Standards
List of resources grouped by Grades K-4, 5-8, 9-12. Some are specific to Michigan, but most are general.
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Educator Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
Manito Ahbee Aki: The Place Where the Creator Sits: Student Guide Phase 1 [The Forks]
Interactive game in which students travel back in time to become members of the Anishinaabe Nation in Manitoba before the European contact and engage in activities in which they learn about the environment, traditional worldviews, and a scared site called Manito Ahbee, and gain knowledge from Knowledge Keepers. Game is free, but students must register to play.
[Métis History & Identity: Lesson Plan]
Created for Grades 10-12.
Métis Traditional Food Number 1
Lesson plan for Grades 1-4 involves students learning about bannock, fried Saskatoon berries, and goose, making bannock, and Michif words associated with cooking and food.
Métis Traditional Food Number 2
Lesson plan for Grades 4-7 involves students learning and speaking Michef words associated with food and cooking, learning about bannock, fried Saskatoon berries, and goose, and making bannock.
Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh = This Is How I Know, Written by Brittany Luby, Illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, Translated by Alvin Ted Corbiere and Alan Corbiere
"An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother explore the natural wonders of each season in this lyrical, bilingual story-poem." Intended for use with ages 3 to 7.
[Model Teaching Unit for] Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac.
Moon of the Crusted Snow: Reading Guide
To accompany book written by Waubgeshig Rice which tells the story of a small northern Anishinaabe community which finds itself completely isolated from the external world just as winter sets in. The key to survival is reconnecting with the land. Guide is arranged around the themes of land, colonialism, community, gender, language, traditions and culture, and real world events.o accompany story written by
Note Taking Frame: 1885 Resistance
Black line master designed for use with chapter Manitoba Enters Confederation in the Grade 6 Social Studies textbook Canada: A Country of Change (1867 to Present) by Graham Broad and Mathew Rankin.
Ojibway Nature Center Colouring Book
Each picture is introduced with a story which includes words in the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) language.
Perpetual Salish Contemporary Coast Salish Art from the Salish Weave Collection
Catalogue of exhibition which featured works by Maynard Johnny Jr., lessLIE , John Marston , Susan A. Point, and Dylan Thomas
Related material: Educational website.
A Place in the Middle: Classroom Discussion Guide
A Place in the Middle: Hawai'i Teacher's Guide
Primary Source Learning: The Wampanoag, the Plimoth Colonists & the First Thanksgiving
Lesson plan designed for elementary students.
Related material: Teaching Guide.
Proceedings at Hearing: Topic-Specific Session: Asserted or Established Aboriginal Rights and Treaty Rights, January 17, 2014, Volume 23
Residential Schools, Truth and Reconciliation: Selected Resources
Annotated list compiled for use by teachers; current as of 2021.