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[Aboriginal Perspectives: The Teacher's Toolkit]
Contains links to individual lesson plans for Grades 1-8 covering subject areas of language, social studies, history, and treaties.
Related material: Guide to the Teacher's Toolkit
Addressing Racism in the Healthcare System: A Policy Position and Discussion Paper
Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2021 Status Update on Reconciliation
Looks at which of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Call2 to Action have been completed. 2023 Report, 2022 Report, 2020 Report.
Canada's Residential Schools: The Legacy: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 5
Claiming the Best of Both Worlds: Mixed Heritage Children of the Pacific Northwest Fur Trade and Formation of Identity
Closing the Gap: Seeking Reconciliation, Advancing First Nations Well Being and Human Rights: Submission to Canada's Premiers
Emergent Identities and Representations in ELT in Minority Language Contexts in Northern Mexico
Family at the Heart of Chickasaw Language Reclamation
FNLED: Quebec First Nations Labour and Employment Development Survey = EDMEPN: Enquête sur le développement de la main-d’œuvre et de l’emploi chez les Premières Nations
From the Bush to the Boardroom: Economic Domains in Indigenous Language Revitalization
Grade Six Treaty Education Learning Resource
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Moving towards Fulfillment of Treaties" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
Grade Three Treaty Education Learning Resource
Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Exploring and Challenges and Opportunities in Treaty Making" inquiry questions about treaty relationships, spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.
Guide to Relationships and Learning with the Indigenous Peoples of Alberta
Housing Needs and Challenges for Rural and Urban (Off-Reserve) Indigenous Peoples
Utilizes data from the Census of Population, Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and the Aboriginal Peoples Survey.
In the Language of their Hearts: Emotions and Language Choice in Child-Parent Interaction, Insights from a Yupik Village
Looks at the importance of language to motivate, construct meanings, and create emotional connections for Indigenous communities.
Incantations and Yupik Language in the Context of Contemporary Religious Rituals: Continuity, Secrecy, and Indetermination
Looks at the preservation of the Chukota's language through religious ceremonies and practices.
Indigenous Peoples: Language Guidelines
The Indigenous World 2015
Keeping Our Traditions Alive: Compendium of Best Practices in Promoting the Traditional Ways of Life of Arctic Indigenous Peoples
kimotinâniwiw itwêwina = Stolen Words Written by Melanie Florence; Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard: Guide to the Plains Cree Edition
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather regain his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 9-13 (Grades 4-7) who have completed three or more years of Cree language instruction.
Literature Review for the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples: Off-Reserve Indigenous Housing Needs and Challenges in Canada
Review conducted to "identify the relationships, correlations, and possible causations between housing and four socio-economic outcomes: education, health, the labour market, and Indigenous languages."
Minority and Indigenous Trends 2021: Focus on COVID-19
Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems
Native American Languages Summit 2014: Self-Determination as a Strategy for Language Revitalization and Maintenance
Examines presentations and panels discussing how the US government and Indigenous groups are working for the preservation of Indigenous languages.
Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race From Encounter to Reservation
Nehiyawak Dolls as Self-Representation and Embodied History
Nunavik in Figures 2020
Opinion on First Nations and Inuit Language Difficulties in the Workplace
Discusses language as a socio-economic characteristic, a determining factor with respect to the labour market, and barriers created by reduced fluency in English and/or French. Concludes with recommendations and courses of action.
Promising Education Interventions to Improve the Achievement of Native American Students: An Annotated Bibliography
Report on Implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action
Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors
Site Unseen: Imag(in)ing Indigeneity in English
A Snapshot: Status First Nations People in Canada
Social and Economic Well-Being: A First Nations Gender-Balanced Analysis
The Social Determinants of Higher Mental Distress among Inuit
Social Justice Picture Books: Lesson Plans for the Junior-Intermediate Classroom
Lesson plans for Grades 4--8. Indigenous Perspectives section begins on p. 329.
"Something Savage and Luxuriant": American Identity and the Indian Place-Name Literature
Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools
Stolen Words Written by Melanie Florence and Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard: Teaching Guide
Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather learn his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.
Suitable for use with students aged 6-9 (Grades 1-4). Text in English with some Cree vocabulary.
The Students of Sherman Indian School: Education and Native Identity Since 1892
Telling Our Twisted Histories
Website contains links to a series of 12 podcasts which explore the impact of words such as reconciliation, indian time, school, reserve, and savage. Host Kaniehti:io Horn engages in conversations with more than 70 people from 15 First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.