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Carey Newman's Witness Blanket Weaves Healing and History
Changemakers Lesson Plans: Remote Learning
Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.
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.
Digital Indigeneity: Digital Media's Uses for Identity Formation Education, and Activism by Indigenous People in the Northeastern United States
Drawn to Change: Comics and Critical Consciousness
First Peoples: A Guide for Newcomers
Garden of Relatives Coloring Book
Colouring pages based on design that features plants and the animals associated with them.
Glimpsing Our Past: An Archival Photo Project
Inuit Art and HBC: Lesson Plan
Examines the company's role in fostering the development, promotion, collection and market for Inuit art. Suitable for Grades 4 to 12.
InVISIBILITY: Indigenous in the City Indigenous Artists, Indigenous Youth and the Project of Survivance
Learn about Western Canada in the Early 1900s through the Art of C.D. Hoy: Teacher Resource Guide for Grades 7-12
Hoy was a photographer who worked in Quesnel, British Columbia at the start of the twentieth century, when the Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Rushes were taking place, resulting in different cultural groups coming together in one location. Many of his portraits were of Indigenous people living in the area. Designed to complement the online exhibition Through the Lens of C.D. Hoy: How a Chinese Canadian Photographer Memorialized a Community.
Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch on the Northwest Coast
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.
Raise a Flag: Works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015): Education Guide
Reconciliation through Revitalization
For use with the article The Big Land, the Kayak and Reconciliation! by Lisa Jane Smith found on page 24 of Remembering the Children.
Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art under Occupation
Saskatchewan History - The First Peoples: Plains First Nations
Showing and Telling the Story of Nikis (My Little House): An Arts-Based Autoethnographic Journey of a Cree Adult Educator
A Student for Life: Kevin Red Star
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 Resource Guide for Grades 9-12: Learn about Family and Intergenerational Knowledge through the Art of Annie Pootoogook
Includes artist biography, learning activities, explanation of her style and technique, image file, and link to book about the artist.
Theorizing Native Studies
Theorizing Native Studies
Through Our Eyes: Expressions of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Cultures: Grade 9 NAC 10
Uses video clips by five Indigenous artists as a starting point for discussion, writing and research activities.
Traditional Alaska Transition Skills: Introduction to Dene Athabascan Beading
Designed to give teens and young adults with disabilities an improved quality of life, connection to culture and increased work-related skills.
[Visual Arts: Woodland Style Artwork]
Visualizing Humanitarian Colonialism: Photographs from the Thomas Indian School
We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture
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.