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Author/Creator
Instructional Resources Branch
Educational Resources Branch
Manitoba Education
Description
Includes: printed and audiovisual materials, kits, and posters and games. Updated version of 2006 edition with the same name..
Archival Photographs in Perspective: Indian Residential School Images of Health
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Krista McCracken
British Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 2017, pp. [163]-182
Description
"This article addresses the challenges associated with present-day usage of residential school photographs, the ways in which these photographs can contribute to ongoing discussions about healing and reconciliation, and the use of archival photographs within the residential school survivor community".
Art, Craft, and Assimilation: Curriculum for Native Students during the Boarding School Era
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kevin Slivka
Studies in Art Education, vol. 52, no. 3, Spring, 2011, pp. 225-242
Description
Compares the educational philosophies and methods of Richard Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and Estelle Reel, the Superintendent of Indian Schools between 1898-1910.
Art Education: First Nations, Métis & Inuit Content & Perspectives Integration
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools
Description
Guide suggests ideas, websites and resources to support classroom activities.
The Children Remembered: Residential Schools Archive Project
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
The United Church of Canada Archives
Description
Website includes photographs of students, staff, and buildings, and histories of United Church-run schools.
Cross-Curricular Connect: The Last of the Buffalo
Author/Creator
McQuillen Studios
Description
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.
Documenting the Dakota: Lucy Margaret Baker
Alternate Title
Lucy Margaret Baker Fonds (F 375)
Archival » Collections (primary materials)
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Archives Board
Description
Records in the Margaret Baker fonds collection tell the story of the development of the Wahpeton reserve and Lucy Baker's activities as a missionary teacher. Reflects stereotypical views of the time.
First Nations, First Thoughts Conference: Abstracts and Papers
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Centre of Canadian Studies
University of Edinburgh
Description
Website contains links, some with access to the full text of presentations, from a conference which explores intellectual thought and cultural development of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Many of the presenters were Canadian.
Glimpsing Our Past: An Archival Photo Project
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nadine Charabin
Paula Daigle
Andy Miller
Saskatchewan History, vol. 69, no. 1, Winter, 2017-2018, pp. 5-7
Description
Describes a project undertaken collaboratively by First Nations University (FNU) in Regina, the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan (PAS), and the Pasqua First Nation, to research and provide better descriptive information for a number of photos of First Nations people in the FNU library.
Entire Issue on one .pdf, scroll to page 5.
John Diefenbaker with school children in Whitehorse.
Images » Photographs
Description
John Diefenbaker standing to address the students of Whitehorse Elementary High School, Christ the King School and the Indian Baptist Mission.
John Diefenbaker with school children in Whitehorse.
Images » Photographs
Description
John Diefenbaker standing amongst a crowd of elementary students from the Indian Baptist Mission and Christ the King School and high school students from Whitehorse Elementary High School, Whitehorse.
Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch on the Northwest Coast
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
U'Mista Cultural Society
Description
Website provides links to introduction to Potlatch, people, lands, history, language, educational resources, and a virtual tour.
Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nancy Marie Mithlo
Description
Aimed at educators in Grades 9-12 and college-level instructors. For use with book of the same name.
Norval Morrisseau: Grandfather of the Woodland Style of Painting
Alternate Title
Shining the Light on Aboriginal Art
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lucy McKenna
Description
Provides curriculum to examine and interpret the life and times of Norval Morrisseau through dance, drama, music and visual arts experiences.
Plains Indian Art of the Northern Plains: Traveling Trunk Curriculum
Alternate Title
Plains Indian Art Trunk Curriculum
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Megan Smith
Description
2nd revised edition. Uses archival photographs of material culture.
Raise a Flag: Works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015): Education Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Onsite Gallery
OCAD University
Description
Exhibition features works by 33 artists which were drawn from the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada Indigenous Art Collection.
Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rosita Henry
Amercian Anthropologist, vol. 119, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 369-370
Description
Book review of Remote Avant-Garde by Jennifer Loureide Biddle.
[Resistance Is [Not] Futile]: An Audio Interview with Jeff Thomas
Alternate Title
BackFlash Magazine
The A-Word
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Bart Gazzola
Jeff Thomas
Description
Artist discusses photographs which deal with residential schools, stereotypes, and the urban Aboriginal experience.
Duration: 28:10.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
June Nash
Renée Ater
James J. Garrett
William Willard
S. Carol Berg
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Rebecca Kugel
Marie Watkins
Robert Keith Collins
James D. Drake
David M. Brugge
Arif Dirlik
Kenichi Matsui
Qwo-Li Driskill
J. Cedric Woods
et. al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-185
Description
Book reviews of:
2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick.
Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie.
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer.
Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.
Robert Houle: Paris/Ojibwa.
Alternate Title
The Art Gallery of Peterborough Education Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The Art Gallery of Peterborough
Description
Teacher's guide developed to accompany the multi-media exhibition.
Saskatchewan History - The First Peoples: Plains First Nations
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
J. Giannetta
Description
A wide range of topics such as clothing, bison, decoration, tools, etc. Developed for Grade 4 Social Studies.
Updated version.
Student Handouts.
The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Visualizations of the "Indian" in Black, White, and Native Educational Contexts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tova Cooper
American Literature, vol. 83, no. 3, September 2011, pp. 509-545
Description
Looks at the systemization of identity, based on race, through examination her photographs of students.
Showing and Telling the Story of Nikis (My Little House): An Arts-Based Autoethnographic Journey of a Cree Adult Educator
Theses
Author/Creator
Brenda Isabel Wastasecoot
Description
Leadership, Higher and Adult Education Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Toronto, 2017
Susan Point: Spindle Whorl: Teacher's Study Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vancouver Art Gallery
Description
Although designed to accompany class visit to an exhibition of the Musqueam artist's work, can be used alone.
Through Our Eyes: Expressing Aboriginal Culture Grade 9 NAC 10
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Eastern Ontario Catholic Curriculum Cooperative
Description
Presents materials designed to help teachers implement the Ontario Grade 9 Native Studies curriculum.
Revised version, 2016.
Treaties in the Classroom Embraces Artistic Aspect
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Michelle Jones
Eagle Feather News, vol. 14, no. 6, June 2011, p. 15
Description
Describes a travelling art exhibit, worked on by over 300 students and guided by Cree/Métis artist Ray Keighley, that bring treaties to life as an art form.
Article located by scrolling to page 15.
[Visual Arts: Woodland Style Artwork]
Alternate Title
Learning Through the Arts
The Arts: Secondary Visual Arts
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
[Lakehead Public Schools?]
Description
Video records one class's experience with incorporating Aboriginal art and culture into the curriculum by utilizing community mentors and Elders.
Duration: 17:00.
We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture
E-Books
Author/Creator
Miranda J. Brady
John M.H. Kelly
Weaving Math
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Daryl Goeson
Maria Nicolidakis
Karla Gamble
Matthew Houghland
Description
Uses techniques involved in creating a Coast Salish blanket to teach concepts of slope and equations in Grade 10 Mathematics Curriculum.
Yup'ik Cosmology to School Mathematics: The Power of Symmetry and Proportional Measuring
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jerry Lipka
Dora Andrew-Ihrke
Eva Evelyn Yanez
Interchange, vol. 42, no. 2, Circumpolar Indigenous Issues, Knowledge, Relations to Education, Science and Mathematics, May 2011, pp. 157-183
Description
Comments on the Math in a Cultural Context curriculum which effectively brings together cultural knowledge and challenging mathematics.