Aboriginal Math Resources
Content arranged under eight different categories: Theory and pedagogy, Curriculum development, Teacher perceptions, Teacher education, Culturally responsive case studies, Student attitudes toward mathematics, Standards, guidelines and recommendations, and Statistics.
Aboriginal Resource "Must Have" List 2019/2020
Extensive list of titles with the applicable grade levels and subjects.
[After Native Claims?: The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements for Natural Resources in British Columbia]
After Native Claims? The Implications of Comprehensive Claims Settlements For Natural Resources in British Columbia
American Indian Studies Association Conference Keynote Address – Indigenous Activism: Our Resistance, Our Revitalization, Our Indigenous Native Studies: And Our Healing within Our Indigenous Context (or From Alcatraz 1969 to Standing Rock 2017. Or Perhaps—Truth Be Bold—Liars, Killers, Thieves Invade Sacred Stone Camp)
Askî and Turtle Island
Primary reading level storybook.
[Askî Scrapbook]
For use with the storybook Askî and Turtle Island.
The Association Between Food Security and Diet Quality Among First Nations Living On-Reserve in Canada
Bat Steals the Moon
Retelling of traditional story.
Source: Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands collected by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers.
Battle of the Northern Lights
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
BC First Nations Land, Title, and Governance: Teacher Resource Guide: Elementary / Seondary
Between Law and Action: Assessing the State of Knowledge on Indigenous Law, UNDRIP, and Free, Prior and Informed Consent with Reference to Fresh Water Resources
Bineshiiyag - Birds
Colouring book with text in Ojibwe and English.
Birth of a Family [Educational Version]
Book Guide for How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable Retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater, Illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
Books to Avoid
Boundaries of the Reservation: Social, Political and Geographical Considerations for Defining the Limits of the Keweenaw Bay Chippewa Reservation
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians: 2017-2018
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators: 2019/20
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected & Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators, 2018/19
Coyote Places the Stars [by] Harriet Peck Taylor
Designed to accompany retelling of traditional Wasco story about how stars came to be arranged in the shapes of animals. Recommended for use with Grade 3 students.
Coyote Tales: Written by Thomas King; Illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler
Guide for book containing two humorous trickster stories.
For use with Grades 1 to 4.
Cree Language Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
Critical/Courageous Conversations on Race: What Your Child Is Learning at School and How You Can Help
Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery
Cross-Curricular Connect: Indian Gallery
Cross-Curricular Connect: The Last of the Buffalo
Resource uses the painting by Albert Bierstadt to teach close reading skills, allegory and the importance of wildlife conservation. Includes links to interactive puzzle, team-building game, sorting activity, game-based art survey and inquiry study.
Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation
Designed as a brief introduction to the issues for educators.
Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development
Related material: Interview with teacher participant.
Debating Cultural Appropriation
Lesson plan focuses on what cultural appropriation is, how it affects Indigenous peoples and whether it should be regulated by law.
Accompanying Material: Student Version.
Developed in conjunction with the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World.
Donald Marshall
E.-A.: Freestyle Looming and Probability: Grade 12 Foundations of Math
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
E-B.1: Picario: A Traditional Indigenous Game to Develop Spatial Reasoning, and Analytical and Critical Thinking Skills: Grade 10 Mathematics Workplace and Apprenticeship
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
E.B2: Water, First Nations Cultures, Statistics: Grade 9 Mathematics
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
E.-C.1: The Language of Positive and Negative Numbers: Grade 6
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
E-C.2: Stick Games and Theoretical/Experimental Probability: Grade 6
Teacher-created lesson developed in conjunction with the McDowell foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
E-D.1: Multiplication and First Nations Drumming
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the Stirling McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development
E-D.2: Quadrilateral Patterning through Indigenous Beading: Grade 5
Teacher-created lesson plan developed in conjunction with the McDowell Foundation project Culture-Based School Mathematics for Reconciliation and Professional Development.
The Earliest Americans: Reader
Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide; Timeline Cards; Online Resources
Empowering the Spirit: Educational Resources to Support Reconciliation
Website developed to provide support for educators by increasing "awareness, understanding, application of First Nations, Métis and Inuit histories, perspectives and ways of knowing for the purpose of implementing treaty and residential schools education and Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action for education".
Energy East and Dakota Access: Pipelines, Protest, and the Obstacles of Mutual Unintelligibility
An Ethos of Responsibility and Indigenous Women Water Protectors in the #NoDAPL Movement
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.
Extractive Violence on Indigenous Country: Sami and Aboriginal Views on Conflicts and Power Relations with Extractive Industries
Factors Facilitating and Impeding Implementation of a Prevention Program in an Innu Elementary School in Quebec
Fighting for Our Lives: #NoDAPL in Historical Context
Finding Our Roots: Indigenous Foods and the Food Sovereignty Movement in the United States
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, Métis and Inuit Growth Chart Literacy Prompts: K-8
Includes book summaries, literacy prompt questions, and enrichment activities for books appropriate to each grade. Revised Version.