The Canoe Is the People: Indigenous Navigation in the Pacific
Accompanying Materials: Teacher's Guide; Learner's Text; Pacific Map; Navigation
Accompanying Materials: Teacher's Guide; Learner's Text; Pacific Map; Navigation
Lesson involves the Aleutians oral traditions regarding tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes. Suitable for Grades 5-6.
Related Material: Legends animated video.
Modules: First Peoples, Early European Colonization (1600 to 1763), Fur Trade, and From British Colony to Confederation (1763 to 1867).
Lessons centred around Basket Bay History as told by Robert Zuboff; Raven Boat as told by Jennie White; and Kaakex'wti as told by Willie Marks.
Lessons centre on the Origin of the Killer Whale, Mosquito, and Tlingit Renaissance.
Lessons center on Raven, Some Slices of Salmon: Entering the Salmon Stream, Raven and the Deer, and Tlingit Language and Oral Literature Research.
Retelling of seven traditional stories including: When the Eagle Went to Borrow Eyes from the Snail; The Shadow; Daughter of Sea Cucumber; The Thunderbird Has a Nest on Thunder Mountain; and When the Codfish Was Sad.
Written in English and Hupačasath.
Story describes the movement of stars associated with the cycle of the seasons.
Project undertaken to preserve Taloyoak history and connect oral stories to the archaeological survey of Netsilik area. Includes links to oral narratives, the survey, stories and legends as well as Grade Nine teaching module, Thunder and Stone.
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Discusses the Mi'kmaq traditional story of the Celestial Bear hunt (Ursa Major).