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Agents of Change: How American Indians Helped Change the World in Only Seven Years
Unit lloks at how the Seven Years' War restructured the balance of power between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Designed for Grade 8 students.
Analyse des Institutions Municipales et Foncières Instituées par le Convention de la Baie James et du Nord Québécois sur le Territoire du Nunavik
Assessing the Interregional Economic Implications of Developing Canada's Arctic Oil Reserves: A Dynamic Multiregional Input-Output Approach
Authentic First Peoples Resources: K-9
The Battle over Termination on the Colville Indian Reservation
"Beyond All Age": Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan's Fiction
Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State
The Buffalo Hunt
Called to Learn, Act, and Reflect through Indigenous Teachings and Experiential Mathematics for Catholic Educators
Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools: Selected & Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians, 2016-2017
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Assimilation with Education after the Indian Wars
Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
Changing Times
Overview of Métis history from the 1840s to 1875. Discusses the collapse of the buffalo hunting economy, the establishment of the community of St. Laurent, passing of laws to establish order, and the arrival of the North West Mounted Police.
Includes questions for students.
Conflicting Plans
2nd edition.
Contrasting Worlds
Overview of Métis history from the 1600s to the early 1870s when many Métis migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Includes questions for students.
2nd edition.
Cree Code Talker
Short documentary about Charles "Checker" Tomkins, a Métis from Grouard, Alberta, and his service during his attachment to the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
Duration: 13:31.
The Darkest Period: The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846-1873
Dreaming from the Margins, Living in the In-Between: Identity, Culture, and the Power of Voice
Uses historical documents in conjuction with Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices. Developed for use in Advanced Placement English Literature or Language classroom, Grades 11 and 12.
Ending an Era
English Fluency via Computers at Yakima Tribal School
Exploring the Great Bear Sea: Elementary Grades 4 - 7 Resource
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Exploring the Great Bear Sea: Environmental Science Grades 11 & 12
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Exploring the Great Bear Sea: Social Studies Grades 11 & 12
Designed for use with the film The Great Bear Sea: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future.
Federal/Provincial Disputes, Natural Resources and the Treaty No. 3 Ojibway, 1867-1924
First and Second Wave Native American Literature
Students analyze Winter in the Blood by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,
First Nations & Inuit Technologies
Designed for Grade 3 Social Studies classes. Students learn about indigenous inventions and discoveries and how they helped European settlers.
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Connections: Scope and Sequence of Expectations
Gabriel Dumont
Gabriel Dumont: Métis Legend
Brief video discusses the life of the Metis leader and his role in the 1885 Resistance. Duration: 7:25.
Related Material: Transcript; Teacher's Guide.
Gimaamaa-akiiminaan gimiigwechiwendaamin = Thankful for Our Mother Earth: A Kid's Activity Book
Story and activities focus on the harvest of wild rice. English with some words translated into Ojibwe.
Indian Boarding Schools: A Case Study of Assimilation, Resistance, and Resilience
Indigenous Environmental Autonomy in Aotearoa New Zealand
Indigenous Watershed Initiatives and Co-Governance Arrangements: A British Columbia Systematic Review: Final Report
Interpreting Moments of American Indian Activism
Discusses the American Indian Movement, the occupation of Alcatraz, Trail of Broken Treaties, the Nebraska Compaign, and Wounded Knee occupation. Designed specifically for Grade 8 students at Walker Jones Education in Washington, D.C.
The Issue of Compatibility between Cultural Integrity and Economic Development among Native American Tribes
Argues that economic development only makes sense when the band controls both its own resources and sustains its identity.
The Issues of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada: Teaching Unit
Judicial Attitudes to Aboriginal Resource Rights and Title
Kanien'kehá:ka Creation Story
Traditional Mohawk story, sometimes known as the Sky Woman story.
Kanyen'kehà:ka Creation Story
Traditional Mohawk story also known as the Sky Woman story.
Kiuguyat: The Northern Lights
Indigenous Alaskans discuss their experience of the aurora borealis. Duration: 25:25.
Land-Based Learning
LAND | MINE
Lessons from the Earth: Storytelling, Art and Indigenous Knowledge
Louis Riel
Louis Riel Spy Mission Task 2016
Mock letter from John A. Macdonald requesting students infiltrate the Red River Settlement to gather information. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies.
Measuring Attitudes Toward the Rights of Indigenous People: An Index of Global Citizenship
Mi'kmaq Family (Migmaoei Otjiosog): [Study Guide]
Native Leaders of Canada
Website presents three sections: brief biographies of leaders, resources for educators, and a community section for people to express their ideas on leadership.
Native Studies 10: A Bibliography of Resources
Annotated list compiled for use by teachers; current as of 2016.