The Exodus from Kitaskinaw School
Examines the shift from a 70% non-Indigenous student population in 1970's to only 3% by 1991 at the Kitaskinaw school located on the Enoch reservation.
Examines the shift from a 70% non-Indigenous student population in 1970's to only 3% by 1991 at the Kitaskinaw school located on the Enoch reservation.
Lesson plan uses the books : Shi-Shi-Etko, Shin-Chi’s Canoe, and Stolen Words.
Photograph of the staff and students of a government industrial school in Fort Qu'Appelle. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Examines the use of the words "band controlled" for schools, when in actuality the schools remains under the control of the federal government.
Book is Margaret Pokiak-Fenton's memoir about attending residential school for two years. This lesson plan uses Grade 6 Program Learning Outcome (PLO)s.
Recommended for Grades 9-10 social Studies.
For use with the article The Business That Created a Country found on p. 6 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" in Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades1 to 5.
Talk given at Presence of the Past: The Third National Conference on Teaching, Learning and Communicating the History of Canada, October 2003. Duration: 34:18.
Colouring book created for Ojibwe language immersion. Text in Ojibwe with Ojibwe-English glossary of terms.
An edited transcript of Verna Kirkness' speech, at the Mokakit Education Research Conference in 1992, about the teachings of Indigenous ancestors.