Teaching Treaties in the Classroom
Teacher's guide for Grades 7-12.
Teacher's guide for Grades 7-12.
Uses date and relationship cards to educate students about First Nations and Newcomer interactions leading up to the signing of Treaty 1 in 1871.
Focuses on Desarae Eashappie; winner of Saskatchewan's 2001 Fresh Faces Model Search contest and 2002 SaskTel Aboriginal Youth Awards of Excellence in the education category.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.16.
Using an Indigenous students perspective to look at Indigenization within Canadian universities.
Using the experiences of Indigenous university students to discuss the importance of using Indigenous ways of knowing within contemporary school pedagogy.
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
Pre-reading activities, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, and extension activities geared toward Grades 9 to 12.
Uses video clips by five Indigenous artists as a starting point for discussion, writing and research activities.
Topics include basics, best practices in storytelling and working with Indigenous communities, creating authentic content and using Native talent.