Telling Our Stories: Omushkego Legends and Histories From Hudson Bay
E-Books
Author/Creator
Louis Bird
Using an Indigenous students perspective to look at Indigenization within Canadian universities.
Looks at attempts to introduce self government on Federal Indian reservations using the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, the termination policy, and the Indian Claims Commission Act.
Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
Pre-reading activities, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, and extension activities geared toward Grades 9 to 12.