Resources

Related: Volume 1.

Related: Volume 2.

Traditional story suitable for use with Grade 4-7 students. Extract from the book The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway.

Although designed for use with a class trip to the festival by elementary and middle schools students, material stands alone.

Primarily the story Lake Tribe's Song of Today. Suitable for use with elementary school students.

For use with the movie.

Artwork designed by youth artists from the Six Nations, Grand River Territory.

Annotated list of Gwich'in language books suitable for use in the classroom.

Lesson teaches the cultural significance of totems poles, how they're constructed and Haida vocabulary relating to them.  Designed for Grades K-1.

Accompanying Material: Teacher Resources.

Traditional stories include: A Man Entertained by The Thunderers; The Horned Serpent Runs Away With A Girl Who Is Rescued By The Thunderer; Niagara Falls and the Thunderbeings; and The Thunder Beings and the Hunter.

Discusses how to combine Indigenous ways of knowing and traditional teaching methods with Western methodologies to produce a two-eyed seeing approach to science education. Designed for the Alaska context but can be adapted to other regions.

Developed to address problems of youth suicide and substance abuse through a sense of cultural belonging and revitalization. 

Training Manual Appendices

 Class Handouts 

Developed for Grades 7 and 8. Students compare and contrast the two leaders' responses to the events of the late nineteenth century; one confrontational, the other conciliatory. Designed to supplement material found in Chapter 7 of Montana: Stories of the Land. 

For use with exhibition of the same name.

Related material: Interviews with artists.

Lesson plan for use with picture book by Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Vladyana Krykorka which is the story of a little Inuit girl who is lured into a cave by an Ijiraq who refuses to take her home. She outwits him and finds her way back using an inuksugaq as a landmark. Recommended for Grades Kindergarten to 2.

Lessons centred around Basket Bay History as told by Robert Zuboff; Raven Boat as told by Jennie White; and Kaakex'wti as told by Willie Marks.

Lessons centred around First Russians as told by Charlie White; Kaats' as told by J.B. Fawcett; Raven, the Rock, and the King Salmon as told by James Klanott; and The Coming of the First White Man as told by George Betts.

Lessons centre on the Origin of the Killer Whale, Mosquito, and Tlingit Renaissance.

Lessons center on Raven, Some Slices of Salmon: Entering the Salmon Stream, Raven and the Deer, and Tlingit Language and Oral Literature Research.

Retelling of seven traditional stories including: When the Eagle Went to Borrow Eyes from the Snail; The Shadow; Daughter of Sea Cucumber; The Thunderbird Has a Nest on Thunder Mountain; and When the Codfish Was Sad.

Written in English and Hupačasath.

Lesson plan for Grades 7-8 Social Studies.

Traditional stories include: The Seven Brothers (Big Dipper); Nya-Gwa-Ih, The Celestial Bear; The Seven Star Dancers; The Seven Brothers of the Star Cluster (Pleiades), Ga-Do-Waas and His Star Belt (Milky Way); and The Man-Eating Wife, the Little Old Woman and the Morning Star.

Haudenosaunee refers to the six nations (Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk), Onayotekaono (Oneida), Onandaga, Guyohkohnyoh (Cayuga), Onondowahgah (Seneca), and Skaruhreh (Tuscarora)) which comprise the Iroquois Confederacy.

For use with book by Joseph Bruchac and James which retells a traditional story designed to teach lessons about humility. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 3.

Children's book retells traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.

Activity promotes reading fluency by having children read parts in a script for the traditional story.

Retelling of a traditional story. Suggested age range 6-11 years.

Retelling of a traditional story.

Children's book retells a Skokomish traditional story. Suitable for use with elementary students.

For use with high school students. Excerpt from Shaping Canada: Our Histories from the Beginning to Present by Linda Connor, Brian Hull, and Connie Wyatt Anderson.