Resources

Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather regain his language after he tells her about his experience of residential school, separation from his family and culture and loss of language.

Suitable for use with students aged 9-13 (Grades 4-7) who have completed three or more years of Cree language instruction.

Lesson plans for math, literacy and French as a second language using themes from the books The Water Walker, Sharing Our Stories, When We Are Kind, and Let's Play Waltes.

Note age of publication. Some suggestions may no longer be considered appropriate.

Includes key questions, outcomes and indicators, "Getting to Know My Community" inquiry questions about spirit and intent, historical context, and treaty promises and provisions, teacher background information, and suggested resources.

Uses the characters of turtle, wolf and beaver to educate the audience about treaties and the treaty relationship. Suitable for all ages.

Related Material: Student Workbook.

Indigenous Alaskans discuss their experience of the aurora borealis. Duration: 25:25.

Geared toward Grades 4 to 6.

Pre-reading activities, discussion questions, learning activities, and extension activities for Grades 4 to 6.

Students follow the adventures of an Inuit hunter who is swept out to sea in a storm and must find his way home. Geared toward Grades 10 to 12.

Primary reading level storybook.

Page contains links to individual isssues of the comic book about a Stó:lō boy who escapes residential school and goes on a journey to learn from the ancestors about ways Stó:lō communities can work together.

Includes links to beliefs and traditions, Seven Council Fires, legends, historical American Indian leaders and South Dakota tribal lands.

Related: Artists and Authors; Spirit Animals.

Focus on Mi'kmaw culture and Nova Scotia, but lessons could be adapted to other contexts. Lesson plans for all levels as well individual grades.

Lesson plan for Grades 7-12 for use with the article Algonquin Territory by Peter Di Gangi.

Film shows daily activities of an Inuit community during an Arctic summer on Alukseevee Island in 1953. Duration: 37: 57.

Related material: Documentary Lens Lesson Plan.

WSANEC (Saanich) great flood story. Text in a mixture of English and SENĆOŦEN.

Related material: Lesson Plan by Shauna White and Kathryn Godfrey appropriate for Grade 6 language arts/ social studies.

Hoy was a photographer who worked in Quesnel, British Columbia at the start of the twentieth century, when the Fraser River and Cariboo Gold Rushes were taking place, resulting in different cultural groups coming together in one location. Many of his portraits were of Indigenous people living in the area. Designed to complement the online exhibition Through the Lens of C.D. Hoy: How a Chinese Canadian Photographer Memorialized a Community. 

Includes description of the Harvest4Knowledge, Indigenous Foodscapes, Local Foods to School programs in British Columbia and five lesson plans.

Teaching resource involves students looking at primary documents and comparing newspaper coverage to eyewitness accounts.

For use with book of same name, written by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read. Lesson plans for Grades 4-7 correspond to each chapter in the book.

Includes information on the process, guiding principles, general and specific criteria, types of learning resources, oral literature and terminology.

Retelling of a traditional Inuit story. Recommended for Kindergarten to Grade 2 students.

Written for primary students.

Related Material: Story without text.

Website contains links to game in which students make choices about what the Red River Settlement's people should do leading up to the creation of Manitoba; teacher resources; and other resources arranged by theme.

Related Material: From the Past Into the Future: Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia: Teacher’s Guide.

Recommended for Grade 3 Social Studies.

Recommended for Grades 4-8.

Designed for Grades 3-8. Information from the article Fur Trade Times in the special issue of Kayak magazine How Furs Built Canada. Students play a class game of "I Have ... Who Has?"