The Building of a Canoe
Brief text accompanied by archival photographs. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Brief text accompanied by archival photographs. Suitable for use with elementary school students.
Six stories connected to the Northwest coast canoe in one volume: Look at What I Found!; Ocean-Going "Fishing" Canoe; Building of a Canoe; Carving of a Canoe; and Herbie & Slim Nellie's First Journey.
Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.
Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.
Lists names of months in a wide variety of North American Indigenous languages.
Lists English translations of cultural groups' names for: the Milky Way, North Star, Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, Cassiopeia, Pleiades, Corona Borealis, Scorpius, and Aurora Borealis.
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
Comments on the national internet-based business planning competition for Aboriginal youth and the two Regina students, Kristen Francis and Katherine Delorme who took top honors.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.29.
For use with documentary of the same title which explores clashes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people over three sacred sites and the use of land for recreational and commercial enterprises. They are: the Lakota and Devil's Tower; the Hopi and the Colorado Plateau; and the Wintu and Mt. Shasta.
Recommended for Grade Seven to adult audiences.