Search
Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Manuscripts
The Children Remembered: Residential Schools Archive Project
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Manitoba Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. Activities align with Manitoba curriculum guides for Grade 6 Social Studies and Grade 11 History of Canada.
Confederation Debates, 1865-1949: Intermediate/Senior Mini Unit: Saskatchewan Provincial Edition
After reading background information, brief biographies and primary materials, students engage in a debate between the pro- and anti-Confederation factions. This edition is aligned with the Saskatchewan provincial curriculum for History 30: Canadian Studies, Native Studies 10, and Native Studies 30.
Cool Things in the Collection: Sessional Journal of the Legislative Assemby of Assiniboia, 1870
Copy of General Instructions to Newly Appointed Indian Agents in British Columbia
Halfbreeds: Primary Source Material
Instruments as Evidence: An Archive of the Architecture of Assimilation
McColl and the Indians
Multiple Voices: Looking at the History of Batoche through the Eyes of Multiple Perspectives
Our Betrayed Wards: A Story of "Chicanery, Infidelity and the Prostitution of Trust"
Originally published in 1921. This version transcribed, curated and with additions. The author was the Indian Agent for the "Blood and Peigan" Indians from 1898 to 1911.
"R" Is for Métis: Contradictions in Scrip and Census in the Construction of a Colonial Métis Identity
Rebellion, 1885 - Order book of the North-West Field Force.
Remember The Children: Residential School Resource Centre
[Reserve Pass Lesson Plan: Social Studies 8]
Uses archival material as a starting point to teach about the influence of the treaty relationship on Canadian identity and how historical events have shaped contemporary Canadian identity.
Teaching American Indian History with Primary Sources
Teaching with Documents: Memorandum Regarding the Enlistment of Navajo Indians
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"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."
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.