An Experiment with Three Modes of Instruction for Indian Elementary School Children
Explorations in Canadian History:; What Can We Learn about Local First Nations Families and Residential Schools from Canada’s History?
Lesson plan uses the books : Shi-Shi-Etko, Shin-Chi’s Canoe, and Stolen Words.
Federal Responsibility to the First Americans
Finding Our Roots: Indigenous Foods and the Food Sovereignty Movement in the United States
The First American: Last in Education
First Nation Literature Unit: Fatty Legs - A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, illustrated by Liz Amimi-Homes
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.
First Nations Youth Inquest: 2019 Progress of Implementing the Recommendations
First Nations Youth Inquest: 2019 Report Card on Recommendations [Detailed]
Fur Trader Game
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.
Girls Breaking Boundaries: Acculturation and Self-Advocacy at Chemawa Indian School, 1900-1930s
Gitiged Gookum [Grandma Is Gardening]
Colouring book created for Ojibwe language immersion. Text in Ojibwe with Ojibwe-English glossary of terms.
Governing Savages: The Commonwealth and Aborigines 1911-1939.
[Government of Canada 2019 Update on Response to Recommendations of the Chief Coroner of Ontario's Recommendations from Inquest into Deaths of Seven First Nations Youths]
Grade 12 Current Topics in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies (40S): A Course for Independent Study
"Field Validation Version."
Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists: Teacher's Guide
For use with exhibition of the same name.
Related material: Interviews with artists.
Hopi Education: A Look at the History, The Present, and The Future
How Can Community-University Engagement Address Family Violence Prevention? One Child at a Time
How Cottontail Lost His Fingers
Children's book retells traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
How Coyote Created the Sun
Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.
How Coyote Made the Stars
Retelling of a traditional story.
How Daylight Came To Be
Children's book retells a Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.
How Nivi Got Her Names: Book Study
Language arts activities in Inuktitut and English for students in Grades 2 and 3.
Hunters and Bombers: [Study Guide]
Improving Kindergarten and Grade One Indigenous Students' On-Task Behavior With the Use of Movement Integration
Looks at the benefits of Movement Integration, or physically activity, for young Indigenous students.
Indian Nations at Risk: An Educational Strategy for Action: Final Report of the Indian Nations at Risk Task Force
Indian Students’ Academic Self-Concept and Their Perceptions of Teacher and Parent Aspirations for Them in a Band-Controlled School and a Provincial School
Looks at both the effects of Indigenous band-controlled schools on Indigenous students.
Indigenizing Education with the Game When Rivers Were Trails
Indigenizing the Curriculum: Putting the “Native” into Native American Content Instruction Mandates
An introduction to the this special issue on educational pedagogy.
Indigenous Arts & Stories
Indigenous Children's Survivance in Public School
Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography
Indigenous Games for Children from Indigenous Communities across Canada
Indigenous History: A Bibliography
Indigenous Logic Math Games
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Teacher's Kit for Giant Floor Map
Topics include climate change, demographics, Indigenous governance, housing, human rights, Indigenous languages, migration, famous people, original place names, residential schools, seasonal cycles, symbols, timeline, trade routes, and treaties, land disputes, agreements and rights.
Although activities were created for the giant floor map, they can be adapted to the printable tile version.
Indigenous Study Guide: An Educator's Guide to Understanding Indigenous Content in K-12 Classrooms
Insects Off to War
Children's storybook retells the Northern Cheyenne traditional story about insects who go to war because they have nothing to do. Suitable for use with elementary students.
Interpretive Guide & Hands-on Activities: Nitssaakita’paispinnaan: We Are Still in Control
Iskigamizigedaa: Let's Boil Maple Sugar
Colouring storybook features a grandparent and grandchildren engaging in conversations about traditional teachings, when to begin and end harvesting, the equipment used, and processing and use of maple sugar. Text in English with some Ojibwe words interspersed.
K-12: Infusing Indigenous Texts in Classrooms
Knowing the Past, Facing the Future: Indigenous Education in Canada
The Last Battle of Seven Oaks Puppet Play
For use with article Last Battle of Seven Oaks, written by Heather Wright and illustrated by Celia Krampien found on p. 30 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" of Kayak: Canada’s History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades 2-6.
Learning Processes and Knowledge Transfer in a Native Bush-Oriented Society: Implications For Schooling
Discusses the need for educational pedagogy of traditional and contemporary teaching methods to address low Indigenous academic success.
Lesson Plan: Fur Trade Timeline
Designed for Grades 3-8. Information from the article Fur Trade Times in the special issue of Kayak magazine How Furs Built Canada. Students play a class game of "I Have ... Who Has?"
Letting Them Teach Each Other: An Experiment in Classroom Networking
Little Bear's Vision Quest: Reader's Theatre
Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in the script.
Lord of the Sky
Maine Indigenous Education Left Behind: A Call for Anti-Racist Conviction as Political Will Toward Decolonization
Discusses the Wabananki Studies Law, calling for the teaching of the Indigenous people and communities in Maine.