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Approaches to Teaching American Indian Histories and Cultures: Classroom Resources Generated by Teachers in Rapid City Area Schools
Background Information: First Nations of British Columbia
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.
The Hours That Remain by Keith Barker: Study Guide
Indigenizing the Curriculum: An Appendix of Films and Movies, and Their Supportive Books
Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch on the Northwest Coast
[Michif Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography]
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.
Perpetual Salish Contemporary Coast Salish Art from the Salish Weave Collection
Catalogue of exhibition which featured works by Maynard Johnny Jr., lessLIE , John Marston , Susan A. Point, and Dylan Thomas
Related material: Educational website.
A Place in the Middle: Classroom Discussion Guide
Raise a Flag: Works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015): Education Guide
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.
Teacher's Guide for Powwow Counting in Cree by Katherine Vermette
Book teaches children how to count from 1 to 10 in Cree. Recommended for Grades K-3.
Telling Our Stories: Voices on the Land: A Performing Arts and Digital Storytelling Teaching Guide for Educators
[Visual Arts: Woodland Style Artwork]
"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.
Western Perspectives
Discusses representations of Indigenous peoples in early 20th century art.
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.