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Amō’s Sapotawan = Amō ōsapotawan: Teacher's Guide
"Set in the mid-1600s, the books follow the daily seasonal lives of one family group of asiniskaw īthiniwak who live in northern Manitoba’s Rocky Cree territory along the Churchill River".
Among the Thlinkits in Alaska
Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk
Baakaani-Inaadizi
A poem about gender and identity.
The Barren Grounds: A Novel Study Unit
Designed for Grade 6 students.
Carried on the Wind
A poem about identity and the buffalo.
Destruction and Resiliency: Decolonizing Settler Knowledge in Native American Literature Through the Peoplehood Matrix
English Thesis (MA) -- University of Denver, 2023.
The First Shot Rang Out
Website for virtual exhibit centred on the Battle of Duck Lake, the first armed engagement of the North West Resistance. Includes links to 110 images, the story of the battle from the differing perspectives of the museum, the Métis, civilians and military, and First Nations and brief biographies of Gabriel Dumont, Louis Riel, Hillyard Mitchell, L.N.F. Crozier, and Acheson Gosford Irvine.
Lakota Culture
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.
Love Note to the Land
A poem reflecting on the Métis connection with the land.
Manitoba: Its Infancy, Growth, and Present Condition
Native American Starlore
Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.
On the Causes of the Rising in the Red River Settlement, 1869-70
Pay Keeway: Come Home to Rat River in li praentaan
A poem and accompanying photocollage that address Métis identity in connection with the landscape.
Pemmican Wars
Substantial excerpt from graphic novel about a Metis girl who finds herself transported back in time to the buffalo hunt, conflict between the Northwest Company and Hudson's Bay Company and the historic Battle of Seven Oaks. Suggested grade level 8-12.
Resistance on the Giimooch: The Life of Mary Courchene: Teacher's Guide
Resource uses the medicine wheel as tool for exploring the life of a residential school survivor.
Secret Path: Lesson Planning Templates
Includes links to series of brief lesson plans highlighting themes of awareness, acknowledgement, atonement, action and understanding and accompanying power points, student workbook and residential schools project.
Designed for use with the graphic novel and movie about Charlie Wenjack, a twelve-year-old who died while running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ontario in 1966.
For use with junior high school students.
Six Years in the Canadian North-West
Note: Language and content reflect the attitudes of the times but would be considered offensive by modern standards.
Still Here, Now
A poem about the connection between clothing and culture.
Teaching Mathematics to All Learners By Tapping into Indigenous Legends: A Pathway Towards Inclusive Education
Examine the use of traditional Indigenous storytelling as a means of teaching math to the benefit of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students
A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians
Treaty 9 Diaries: The Real Agreement between First Nations and the Crown in 1905: Materials and Documents
Website contains links to legal discussion paper on oral promises, digitized copies of the diaries of the three treaty commissioners (Daniel George Martin, Samuel Stewart, Duncan Campbell Scott), the official report, article Last of the Indian Treaties by Campbell Scott published in Scribner's Magazine, and series of articles by the Treaty Secretary entitled Twelve Hundred Miles by Canoe published in the Canada magazine.