Exploring the Night Sky Indigenous Inquiry Kit
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Includes annotated bibliography, book critiques, and four lessons plans appropriate for sixth grade.
Examines the link between having parents who attended Residential Schools and the likelihood of Indigenous children ending up in foster care during the Sixties Scoop.
Reprint of a contracted report including recommendations, based on 1997-1998 interviews in the Springhill Institution, Prison for Women, the Regional Psychiatric Centre (Prairies) and the Saskatchewan Penitentiary. Report notes significant drop in percentage of Aboriginal women incarcerated during period of report writing.
Compares the cost of complying with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision to settling a class action suit.
Resource for teaching about the impact of settlement and colonization.
Suitable for use with Grade 7 and 8 students.
Looks at the challenges for Indigenous students entering post-secondary education.
Anthropology Thesis (MA) -- College of William &
Mary, 2020.
Examines a pilot project to provide workshop kits designed to encourage Indigenous youth to create video games that reflect their Indigenous knowledge.
From Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada by John Belshaw, Sarah Nickel and Chelsea Nickel. Lists traditional and anglicized versions of First Nations and tribes discussed in the book.
Examines the correlation between the dumping of pulp and paper mill effluent near the Pictou Landing First Nation and the high levels of cancer amongst its Indigenous population.
Content focused on the Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqewiyik, and Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) peoples of New Brunswick.
Traditional story suitable for use with Grade 4-7 students. Extract from the book The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway.
Designed to inform employees working within the scope of Maternal and Child Health Program. Covers topics such as ethics and confidentiality, steps in the family visit, safety, empathy, and problematic situations.
Republication with spelling updates for Tłı˛chò˛ (Dogrib) terms.
Examines the participation of inmates in the Work 2 Give program, were the inmates made items for Indigenous communities, and how participation in the program helped with the inmates healing process.
Looks at the lack of research in identifying Indigenous students aptitude for math.
Examines documents used to support three communities' assertion that they should be considered part of the Métis nation. They are: historic Georgian Bay Métis community; historic Mattawa Métis community; and historic Sault Ste Marie Métis community.
Anthropology Thesis (MS) -- Purdue University, 2014.
Provides brief overview of treaty process over the past 300 years.
Discusses project which used experiential learning to deepen secondary students' understanding of Indigenous issues and the meaning of reconciliation.
Special digital edition of Canada's History's magazine for children Kayak. Suitable for ages 7-12
Indigenous Studies Thesis (MEd) -- McGill University, 2020.
Salish artist retells the traditional story while drawing step-by-step visual interpretation.
Duration: 1:30:23.
Looks at the barriers to services that effect the response to human trafficking in Northeastern Ontario.
Discuss the training of Indigenous facilitators to use traditional Indigenous medicine in compliment with contemporary treatments to reduce the effects of intergenerational trauma.
Researchers studied five housing cooperatives developed by and serving Indigenous communities in London and Simcoe County, Ontario, and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Includes recommendations to facilitate development of future cooperatives.
Documentary inspired by the non-fiction book of the same name by Thomas King explores historical attitudes and efforts to colonize Indigenous peoples and contemporary expressions of resistance.
Duration: 1h, 29 min.
Script adapted from one of the short stories in Indian Shoes. Through students reading parts in script activity is meant to develop reading fluency.
Panel discussion. Entire proceedings in one PDF. To access panel discussion scroll to p. 75.
Designed for teachers of English as a Second Language.
Involves students researching leaders Nicolle Gonzalez, Roxanne White, Madonna Thunderhawk, and Auntie Pua Case and their work using ancestral knowledge to protect the sacred.
A study on Indigenous entrepreneur Bernard Naraseau, whose subsistence strategy breaks the traditional understanding of using either an Indigenous or settler approach for living during the nineteenth century.
A collaborative look between student and teacher of a graduate seminar that used Indigenous teachings with elder's participation.