Battle of the Northern Lights
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
Developed in conjunction with an exhibition featuring works by Bev Koski, Katie Longboat, Jean Marhsall, and Olivia Whetung.
Humourous animated short involves a ill-equipped European "discovering" the Inuit homeland and promptly planting flags everywhere as a sign of ownership and an Inuit hunter's response. Accompanying material: The Bear Facts: Lesson Plan.
Duration: 3:58.
Guide to accompany film, The Bear Facts. Target audience Grades one to three in the subject areas of History, Social Sciences, First Nations and Humanities.
Historical overview of Willow Cree Chief Kamiscowesit's (or Beardy's) role in the North West Resistance and the negotiations of Treaty 6. Alternate spellings include: Kamayistowesit, Kamdyistowesit.
Book review of: The Bearer of this Letter by Mindy J. Morgan.
Children's story teaches lessons about cooperation and preparedness.
Related Material: Michif Version. Michif Narration.
Discusses the importance of a culturally relevant framework during the coming of age period for Indigenous youth.
Studies four films; Smoke Signals, Powwow Highway, Medicine River, and Dead Man.
English in American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cape Town, 2004.
Examines and compares the ways Indigenous groups from different places organize and mobilized in different ways.