Resources

To be used in conjunction with book by Thomas King. Compilation includes information about the author, interviews, book reviews and discussion questions, as well as general article on Understanding and Navigating Privilege While Travelling.

For use with Grades 5-12.

Lesson plans which can be used with a variety of grades.

Series of eight modules designed to teach Grade 6 students about the importance of biodiversity, local community and Indigenous knowledge by creating gardens. Each module should take place over the course of a week.

Includes discussion questions and activity ideas for each volume of the atlas.

Topics include climate change, demographics, Indigenous governance, housing, human rights, Indigenous languages, migration, famous people, original place names, residential schools, seasonal cycles, symbols, timeline, trade routes, and treaties, land disputes, agreements and rights.

Although activities were created for the giant floor map, they can be adapted to the printable tile version.

Involves students researching leaders Nicolle Gonzalez, Roxanne White, Madonna Thunderhawk, and Auntie Pua Case and their work using ancestral knowledge to protect the sacred.

Teacher's resource includes lesson plans, classroom activities, links to online resources, and worksheets divided into five sections with associated themes: human geography (Indigenous peoples, civilizations and territories; contact to 1763 (encounters with Europeans); 1763 to 1876 (oral histories and biographies); 1876 to 1914 (policies and politics); 1914 to 1982 (separate and unequal); and 1980s to present day (toward reconciliation).

Brief list arranged under headings leaves and plants, berries, and barks, with location, description and uses.

Focuses on Indigenous vs. non-Indigenous representations of Indigenous peoples and their stories in film.

Additional material:

Video.

Links to pages for Sylix, Salteaux, Anishinabemowin (Algonquin), Cree, and Inuktitut languages, and Every Child Matters.

Series of 13 videos (each approximately 5 minutes long), geared toward children, explore how Indigenous knowledge and traditions have contributed to the modern world.

Resources for teaching and learning about culture and language at primary, elementary, and high school levels.

2nd edition.

Appendices.

Children's storybook retells the Northern Cheyenne traditional story about insects who go to war because they have nothing to do. Suitable for use with elementary students.

Activities focus on First Nations' cultures in British Columbia.

Historical background information and instructions for various ball games, lacrosse, target games, and wrestling.

Topics include the medicine wheel, circle of life, the sacred tree, relationship with the land, oral traditions, examples of plants and their uses, and traditional tobacco usages.

Primarily list of resources and excerpts from other documents.

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.

Lesson plans for elementary and secondary school students for exhibition featuring works by Elaine Alexie, Erik Lee, and Carmen Miller. Topics include First Nations groups of central Alberta and the Boreal forest, brief survey of Indigenous art in the twentieth century, abstract art, and First Nations traditional art forms and materials.

Power point and slide notes.