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Cree Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Cross-Curricular Connect: The Last of the Buffalo
Resource uses the painting by Albert Bierstadt to teach close reading skills, allegory and the importance of wildlife conservation. Includes links to interactive puzzle, team-building game, sorting activity, game-based art survey and inquiry study.
Debating Cultural Appropriation
Lesson plan focuses on what cultural appropriation is, how it affects Indigenous peoples and whether it should be regulated by law.
Accompanying Material: Student Version.
Developed in conjunction with the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World.
Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage
Gyáa'aang: Totem Poles
Lesson teaches the cultural significance of totems poles, how they're constructed and Haida vocabulary relating to them. Designed for Grades K-1.
Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.
A Healthy Journey: Indigenous Teachings That Direct Culturally Responsive Curricula in Physical Education
Inviting American Indian Arts Curriculum Into a School: The Short Life and Long Term Effects of an Arts Program
Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch on the Northwest Coast
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
Native American Music and Dance
Unit focuses on the Choctaw and Coushatta, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and Illinois cultures.
Native American Music from Wounded Knee to the Billboard Charts: A Document Based Exploration
Lesson uses interviews with Pat Vegas and Redbone from the documentary Rumble: The Indians That Rocked the World as a jumping-off point to examine the U.S. government's efforts to control Native American culture by way of music.
Noble Savage: Depictions of Native Americans throughout U.S. History
Unit involves students reading and evaluating images by Theodor DeBry, Simon van de Passes, Mathaeus Merian, D.F. Blanchard, George Catlin, John Gast, and Walter Ufer and contemporary photographs.
Protecting Australian Indigenous Art: Ownership, Copyright and Marketing Issues for NSW Schools
Raise a Flag: Works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015): Education Guide
[Recensions/Book Reviews]
Rethinking Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Documentary looks at the little-known story of Indigenous influences on and contributions to the evolution of contemporary rock and blues music. Artists profiled include Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Link Wray, Jesse Ed Davis, Stevie Salas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Randy Castillo, Jimi Hendrix, and Taboo.
Saskatchewan History - The First Peoples: Plains First Nations
Susan Point: Spindle Whorl: Teacher's Study Guide
Although designed to accompany class visit to an exhibition of the Musqueam artist's work, can be used alone.
Telling Our Stories: Voices on the Land: A Performing Arts and Digital Storytelling Teaching Guide for Educators
Ts'úu isgyáan Sgahláang = Yellow and Red Cedar
Science unit also teaches the Haida language. Intended for Grades K-2.
Related Material: Teacher Resources.
[Visual Arts: Woodland Style Artwork]
Walking Tall in the Hall: A Mapping Review of ArtsSmarts Projects in Aboriginal Settings Across Canada
"We're Rapping, Not Trapping": Hip Hop as a Contemporary Expression of Métis Culture and a Conduit to Literacy
Weaving Math
Uses techniques involved in creating a Coast Salish blanket to teach concepts of slope and equations in Grade 10 Mathematics Curriculum.
Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations: Educator Guide for Grades 6-12
For use with the virtual exhibition Why Treaties Matter.