Search
Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery
Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery
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.
Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation
Designed as a brief introduction to the issues for educators.
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.
E.-A.: Freestyle Looming and Probability: Grade 12 Foundations of Math
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
E-D.1: Multiplication and First Nations Drumming
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the Stirling McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development
E-D.2: Quadrilateral Patterning through Indigenous Beading: Grade 5
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists: Teacher's Guide
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
Indigenous Arts & Stories
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography
Interpretive Guide & Hands-on Activities: Nitssaakita’paispinnaan: We Are Still in Control
Ironic Confrontation as a Mode of Resistance: The Homeland Security T- Shirt at the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests
[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.
Native Art, Native Voices: A Resource for K-12 Learners
Niitsitapiisini: Our Way of Life: The Story of the Blackfoot People
[North American Indians: A Collection of Bibliographies, Resource Lists, Questions and Answers, and Other Leaflets]
Project #12: Button Blanket
Lesson designed for use with elementary school students.
Taken from The Sk u k altx "To Teach in School" Project : First Nations Art and Language Course.
Raise a Flag: Works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015): Education Guide
Resilience: Teaching Guide
Developed to accompany the exhibition Resilience which featured Indigenous women artists' works displayed on billboards in inner cities and on highways.
Related material: Project Templates; curatorial essay The Resilient Body by Lee-Ann Martin and her curator's talk.
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 Guide for K.C. Adam's Perception: A Photo Series
Telling Our Stories: Voices on the Land: A Performing Arts and Digital Storytelling Teaching Guide for Educators
“We Need New Stories”: Trauma, Storytelling, and the Mapping of Environmental Injustice in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Standing Rock
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.