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Author/Creator
Learning and Teaching Resources Branch
Alberta Education
Description
Draft. Primary intended audience is teachers.
Band Operated Funding Formula: Summary of Cost Factors
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Linda Simon
Bee Nation
Alternate Title
CBC DOCS POV
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Lana Šlezić
Description
Documentary follows three First Nations students as they compete in Saskatchewan's first-ever First Nations Provincial Spelling Bee and their subsequent trip to the National Championships in Toronto.
Duration: 44:08.
Bridging Generations: American Indian Family Perceptions of Home/School Partnerships
Theses
Author/Creator
Nicolasa Irene Sandoval
Description
Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.
Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream
E-Books
Author/Creator
Charlie Angus
Cree Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lawrence Barkwell
Norman Fleury
Description
Material on: culture, history, mythology and language as well as separate sections for scholarly articles and theses.children's books, films, internet resources, music, recordings, curriculum materials, and textbooks.
The Earliest Americans: Reader
Alternate Title
Core Knowledge History and Geography
Core Knowledge Curriculum Series
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Core Knowledge Foundation
Description
Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide; Timeline Cards; Online Resources
First Nations and Métis Education: An Advisory for School Boards: Module 11
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Loraine Thompson
Description
Covers enhancing awareness of First Nations and Métis cultures, policy leadership for First Nations and Métis education, and challenges and success stories for educational equity and educational governance.
First Nations, Métis and Inuit School-Community Learning Environment Project: Promising Practices
Alternate Title
Promising Practices
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Alberta Education]
First Nations
Métis and Inuit Services Branch
Description
Discusses a project implemented to address the achievement gap between First Nations, Métis and Inuit learners and non First Nations, Métis and Inuit learners.
First Nations Youth Inquest: 2017 Report Card on Recommendations
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Aboriginal Legal Services]
Description
Inquest investigated the deaths of seven youths who had relocated to Thunder Bay, Ontario to complete their high school education.
Grading Formula
First Nations Youth Inquest: 2017 Report Card on Recommendations [Detailed]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Aboriginal Legal Services]
Description
Inquest investigated the deaths of seven youths who had relocated to Thunder Bay, Ontario to complete their high school education.
Grading Formula
Getting Connected: Improving Online Distance Education for Rural and Remote First Nations
Theses
Author/Creator
Milan Aleksandar Pavlica
Description
Public Policy Project (MPP)--Simon Fraser University, 2017.
I Can Make a Difference and so Can You!
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nicole Flynn
The First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2017, pp. 7-11
Description
Speech presented for a Youth to Youth Summit in September, 2017.
"I Should Not Be Wearing a Pilgrim Hat": Making an Indian Place in Urban Schools, 1945-75
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steve Amerman
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2007, pp. 39-62
Description
Examination of the social experiences and challenges faced by Native American children who had attended large public schools in the United States between 1945-75.
An Investigation of How Culture Shapes Curriculum in Early Care and Education Programs on a Native American Indian Reservation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer L. Gilliard
Rita A. Moore
Early Childhood Education Journal, vol. 34, no. 4, February 2007, pp. 251-258
Description
Looks at early care and eduction programs on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
"It's huge in First Nation culture for us, as a school, to be a role model": Facilitators and Barriers Affecting School Nutrition Policy Implementation in Alexander First Nation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kris Murray
Alexander Research Committee
Anna Farmer
Katerina Maximova
Noreen Willows
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 12, no. 2, 2017, pp. 43-63
Description
Comments on the importance of school nutrition policies to create a healthy learning environment for students and how to go about doing so.
Kekina'muek (learning): Learning about the Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq]
Description
Teacher's manual for senior grades.
Let's Talk On-reserve Education: Survey Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Hill + Knowlton Strategies Canada
Description
Results of survey conducted with parents and community members from January to April 2017. Gives statistics for general as well as regional responses.
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.
Lubicons Pressured to Give Up Self-Determination
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker , vol. 24, no. 12, March 2007, p. 10
Description
Questions the federal governments' push to regionalize sewer, water and education on unceded lands, thereby hindering Lubicon self-determination.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade 5: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Nine: Introduction and Directions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Two: Unit Scope and Introduction
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
Parental School Choice in First Nations Communities: Is There Really a Choice?
Theses
Author/Creator
Evelyn Louise Steinhauer
Description
Educational Policy Studies Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Alberta, 2007.
Promising Practices in First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education: Case Studies of Two Alberta Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations
Métis and Inuit Services Branch
Description
Examines parent and community engagement, cultural and language programming, teachers, instruction and curriculum resources, professional development, and individual students supports at Francis of Assisi Elementary School and Le Roi Daniels Elementary School.
Reconciliation on Whose Terms? the Death of Will Maquinna at the Ahousaht Indian Residential School
Alternate Title
Tri-University Annual Graduate History Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mariah Guta
Description
Paper presented the the Tri-University Annual Graduate History Conference Waterloo, Ontario.
Looks at death in 1907 of young child and then ensuing crisis in community-school relations.
REEES: Quebec First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey: Educational Ambitions
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Isabel Rojas Martel]
REEES: Quebec First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey: Youth Mobility
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Angela Mashford-Pringle]
Responses to Jury Recommendations: Seven First Nations Youths Inquest Q2016-26 (Jethro Anderson, Reggie Bushie, Robyn Harper, Kyle Morrisseau, Paul Panacheese, Curran Strang & Jordan Wabasse) [2017]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nishnawbe Aski Nation
Description
The youths had relocated from remote communities to Thunder Bay in order to attend high school.
2018 Report.
2019 Report
Teacher Resource Manual for the Novel Tatsea
E-Books
Author/Creator
Peter Maguire
Think Indigenous [2017]: Saskatoon, SK, Treaty 6 Territory: Simon Bird
Alternate Title
[Think Indigenous Education Conference ; 2017]
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Simon Bird
Description
Speaker discusses the importance of educators building relationships with students and staff.
Duration: 28:02.
Trickster Chases the Tale of Education
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series ; 89
E-Books
Author/Creator
Sylvia Moore
"Unlike Their Playmates of Civilization, the Indian Children's Recreation Must be Cultivated and Developed": The Administration of Physical Education at Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, 1926-1944
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Braden Paeora Te Hiwi
Historical Studies in Education, Revisiting the Histories of Indigenous Schooling and Literacies, Spring, 2017, pp. 99-117
Description
Looks at the implementation of sport, exercise and recreation as part of an assimilation policy to provide character traits to the students.
Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations: Educator Guide for Grades 6-12
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Frank Bibeau]
[Priscilla Giddings-Buffalohead]
[Jim L. Jones]
[Jack Judkins]
[Nanette Missaghi]
[Amanda Norman]
[Dennis Olson]
[Ramona Kitto Stately] ... [et al.]
Description
For use with the virtual exhibition Why Treaties Matter.
Wicubami: Honoring Alexis Nakota Sioux Ish?awimin through Kinship, Language, Spirit, and Research
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lia Ruttan
Sherry Letendre
Elizabeth Letendre
Tanja Schramm-Trethowan
Fay Fletcher ... [et al.]
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 1, 2017, pp. 87-108
Description
Describes Elders' contributions to a community-based participatory research project, the Nimi Ichinohabi program, on substance abuse prevention for children at the community school.