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Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jean-Paul Restoule
Sheila Gruner
Edmund Metatawabin
Canadian Journal of Education, vol. 36, no. 2, Indigenous Education: Pathways to (Re)membering, 2013, pp. 68-86
Looks at the Cree concepts of land and place while on a canoe trip with youth, adults and elders of Fort Albany First Nation on James Bay.
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Learning from the Land

Alternate Title
Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education: Unit 5 Introduction
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jan Hare
Looks at the foundations of Indigenous education based on land and place and the connection to the natural world. Unit 5 of 6. Duration: 11:48.
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Learning from the Land: Indigenous Land Based Pedagogy and Decolonization

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Wildcat
Mandee McDonald
Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Glen Coulthard
Decolonization, vol. 3, no. 3, Indigenous Land-Based Education, 2014, pp. I-XV
Introduces the special Issue and argues that decolonization requires forms of education that reconnect Indigenous peoples to land and land-based knowledges, languages, and social relations.
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Learning & Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marie-Claude Mattéi Muller
Margaret Florey
Stanford Zent
Jorge Ishizawa
Grimaldo Rengifo ... [et al.]
Papers discuss loss of language and Indigenous knowledge and ways of learning in various countries.
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Learning to Teach in Culturally Responsive and Respectful Ways: First Steps in Creating a First Nation, Métis and Inuit Education Infusion in a Mainstream Teacher Education Program

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diane M. Vetter
Melissa Blimkie
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2011, pp. 173-185, 187, 189
Discusses a program that infuses Aboriginal ways of knowing, traditions, and perspectives into teaching, creating awareness of Indigenous needs in education among both faculty and students.
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"The Legacy Will Be the Change": Reconciling How We Live with and Relate to Water

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lindsay Day
Ashlee Cunsolo
Heather Castleden
Alex Sawatzky
Debbie Martin ... [et al.]
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, The COVID-19 Pandemic and Indigenous Peoples, 2020, pp. 1-23

Looks at the Indigenous approach towards water knowledge and how this approach can be used in collaboration with Western knowledge systems for water policy making and research.  

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Lehae-La-Rona: Epistemological Interrogations to Broaden our Conception of Environment and Sustainability

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tsepo Mokuku
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 17, [Indigenizing and Decolonizing Environmental Education], 2012, pp. 159-172
Author discusses her involvement in the Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE) project and the process developing an education for sustainable development theory suited to the context of the country of Lesotho.
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Lesson: The 13 Moons

Alternate Title
Lesson the Thriteen Moons
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Caleb Wesley
Lesson plan for Grade 6 space unit explores the Anishinabek version of the lunar calendar. Adapted from Achieving Aboriginal Student Success: A Guide for K to 8 Classrooms by Pamela Rose Toulouse.
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A Letter from Mr. John Reinhold Forster, F. R. S. to William Watson, M. D. Giving Some Account of the Roots Used by the Indians, in the Neighbourhood of Hudson's-Bay, to Dye Porcupine Quills

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John Reinhold Forster
Philosophical Transactions, vol. 62, 1772, pp. 54-59
Transcription of letter from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Royal Society describing processes used to create colour dyes for quills used in artwork.
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Life Devoted to Healing and Higher Learning

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dianne Meili
Windspeaker , vol. 30, no. 4, July 2012, p. 26

Profiles Lillian McGregor's lifetime of accomplishments, including her work on many committees, boards, and her knowledge of traditional medicine.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.34.

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A Life Vest for Hudson Bay's Drifting Stewardship

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nunavut Hudson Bay Inter-Agency Working Group
Arctic, vol. 61, no. 5, Supplement 1, 2008, pp. 35-47
Discusses the use of scientific and Inuit knowledge to understand the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the Arctic marine ecosystem and the collaboration needed to unify the coastal and marine governance in the eastern Canadian Arctic.
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Lifestyles, Diets, and Native American Exposure Factors Related to Possible Lead Exposures and Toxicity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stuart Harris
Barbara L. Harper
Environmental Research, vol. 86, no. 2, June 2001, pp. 140-148
Argues that examination of traditional diets which result in exposure, poor food diets which increase absorption and possible exposure to lead paint is needed to assess potential correlations with blood lead levels.
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"Like Melody or Witchcraft": Empowerment through Literature

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah A. Miranda
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 103-106
Author examines and compares that practice of making poetry and the and the practice of re-discovering or returning to traditional knowledge and ways of knowing.
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Like Ripples in Water: 1980-1986

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Anne-Marie Mawhiney
Thomas Alcoze
Robert Hart
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 9, Special Edition In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the School of Indigenous Relations, February 2014, pp. 11-21
Discusses how the culturally-specific social work program started. Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 11 to read article.
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Linking Early Childhood Learning in Aotearoa With Practices & Possibilities in Inuit Nunangat

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Mary Caroline Rowan
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, Special Issue 2014: Revitalizing Education in Inuit Nunangat, 2014, pp. 42-[48]
Considers how aspects of three Maori concepts could be beneficial for Inuit: Kohanga Reo (language nests), early childhood curriculum Te Whāriki, and playcentres. Entire issues on one pdf. Scroll to page 41 to read article.
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Listening For Pleasure

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura Cameron
Native Studies Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Native People in British Columbia: Recent Research, 1996, p. 109–129
Narrative on the drainage of Sumas Lake, based on oral accounts & documentary sources, with interplay between place and its historical representation within culture.
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Listening to Our Past

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Francophone Association of Nunavut
Information on traditional Inuit culture and present day Nunavut. Links include: A Journey into Inuit Traditional Knowledge, Development of Government Services in the Arctic and The Creation of Nunavut. Each section includes oral histories and Elders' personal narratives.
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Literacy in Canada’s North

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Helen Balanoff
Beth Mulloy
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, no. 2, Literacy & Democracy, December 2013, pp. [33]-36
Discussion on culture-based approaches to literacy and essential skills.
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