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Aboriginal Literature (Canada)
BC Rainforest
Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation
Birch Bark Biting
Center for World Indigenous Studies
Independent institute working to "restore traditional knowledge through research and education". Includes links to education programs, fourth world papers programs, research, virtual library and media center.
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
A Cheyenne Odyssey
Role-playing game for middle school grades. This mission focuses on changes to the Northern Cheyenne's way of life from 1866 to 1876 due to encroachment of United Sates military expeditions, railway builders and white settlers. Students assume the role of Little Fox and influence the outcomes of the game by the choices they make.
[Documents and Papers Relating to Louis Riel and the North West Resistance]
Digitized documents are mainly transcribed copies. In two parts.
[Eastern Native Population, Early 17th Century]
First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commision
Government Sales of Surrendered Native Reserve Lands in Eastern Canada, [1867-1900]
Healing the Generations Residential School Curriculum
Index of Native American Music Resources on the Internet
Indigenous Law Portal
Indigenous Peoples within Canada: A Concise History: Student Resources
To accompany 5th edition of book written by Olive Patricia Dickason, William Newbigging and Cary Miller. Contains links to: chapter outlines; learning objectives; key terms, figures, or sites; study questions; essay questions; additional resources; and flashcards.
Indspire: Indigenous Education, Canada's Future
Information on financial assistance for First Nations, Inuit and Métis post-secondary students through bursaries and scholarship awards.
KAIROS Blanket Exercise
Keeper of My Home Learning Resource: First Nations Teaching Materials and Online Games about Housing
Website contains links to educational material for Kindergarten to Grade 12, including summary of housing topics, lessons plans, E-learning games and guides, and activity booklets. Content is arranged around 4 themes: traditional teaching of the community, First Nations housing topics, home maintenance and home safety.
Ken Coates in Inside Policy: Five priorities for Aboriginal Canada in election 2015
Lakota Culture
Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.
Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.
Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Activity and Resources
Website contains links to game in which students make choices about what the Red River Settlement's people should do leading up to the creation of Manitoba; teacher resources; and other resources arranged by theme.
Related Material: From the Past Into the Future: Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Teacher’s Guide.
Linguistic Families, 17th Century
Little Bear’s Cree and Canada’s Uncomfortable History of Refugee Creation
Missing and Murdered: Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls
The Miykiwan Toolkit
Moose Hide Campaign Learning Platform for K-12
Moose Hide Campaign is an Indigenous-led movement to engage men and boys in preventing violence against women and children. Site includes links to teacher resources such as a curriculum guide, lesson plans, and videos.
Naskapi Dictionary
National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, University of Manitoba
Native American Historical Resources
Native American Moons
Lists names of months in a wide variety of North American Indigenous languages.
Native American Sky
Lists English translations of cultural groups' names for: the Milky Way, North Star, Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, Cassiopeia, Pleiades, Corona Borealis, Scorpius, and Aurora Borealis.
Native American Starlore
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
Native American Traditions
Native Population 1901
Native Population, Economies and Movement, ca 1820
Native Reserves, 1902
[Native Subsistence, 1000 CE to Contact, Archaeological Data]
[Native Subsistence at European Contact, Ethnohistoric Data]
Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA)
Plains Indian Ledger Art
Secret Path: Lesson Planning Templates
Includes links to series of brief lesson plans highlighting themes of awareness, acknowledgement, atonement, action and understanding and accompanying power points, student workbook and residential schools project.
Designed for use with the graphic novel and movie about Charlie Wenjack, a twelve-year-old who died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario in 1966.
For use with junior high school students.
The Spirit Lives
Traditional First Nation Community Names [Manitoba]
Map codes communities by linguistic affiliation; individual locations can be clicked on for brief videos and English name.
Traditional Knowledge Background Briefs
Treaty 9 Diaries: The Real Agreement between First Nations and the Crown in 1905: Materials and Documents
Website contains links to legal discussion paper on oral promises, digitized copies of the diaries of the three treaty commissioners (Daniel George Martin, Samuel Stewart, Duncan Campbell Scott), the official report, article Last of the Indian Treaties by Campbell Scott published in Scribner's Magazine, and series of articles by the Treaty Secretary entitled Twelve Hundred Miles by Canoe published in the Canada magazine.