699 Day Schools
A map of Federal Indian Day Schools in Canada with a corresponding RG-10 file for each location.
A map of Federal Indian Day Schools in Canada with a corresponding RG-10 file for each location.
Searchable website is an online portal giving educators access to Indigenous sky-knowledge resources.
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.
Digitized documents are mainly transcribed copies. In two parts.
Site provides information about GDI its programs, services and resources and affiliated institutes including Dumont College, and Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program, includes Library search access.
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.
Lists all 73 volumes edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, with subject descriptions and links to full text in the Internet Archive.
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.
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.
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.
Lists names of months in a wide variety of North American Indigenous languages.
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.
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
Adaptations of sixteen traditional stories, most relating to Wenebojo.
Digitized versions of originals (1879-1949) mainly relating to day-to-day running of individual schools across Canada such as building maintenance, general administration, teachers' salaries and residences, and supplies. In some cases admissions and discharges (residential schools), death of pupils (residential schools), applications to teach, inspectors' reports, drugs and medical supplies for treatment of students, and vocational training supplies are also mentioned. Some headquarters files are included. Also included is link to indexes to the Indian Affairs School Files.
Goal of project is to support self-sufficiency and economic growth, improve fiscal capacity to govern while managing risk, increase transparency and accountability, and clarify governments' responsibility for service provision. Contains links to eight chapters and project summary.
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.
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.