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Mohawk Girls: Educational Resource

Alternate Title
Docs for Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Description
Teacher's guide for use with Mohawk Girls, a documentary by Tracey Deer about the lives of three girls from Kahnawake Reserve and the issues they face. Documentary.
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Mohawk Indian Tribe Lesson Plan "Sky Walkers"

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Talking Feather: Lesson Plans about Native American Indians
Documents & Presentations
Description

Lesson plan about the Mohawk men who worked the high steel in New York City. For use with The Mohawks Who Built Manhattan by Renee Valois.

Related video High Steel.

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Montana Skies: Blackfeet Astronomy

Alternate Title
Indian Education for All
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lynn Moroney
Description

Includes traditional stories about the girl who married a star, the bunched stars and scarface and associated activities.

Additional Resource: Videos of stories read aloud.

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Montana Skies: Crow Astronomy

Alternate Title
Indian Education for All
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lynn Moroney
Description

Includes traditional stories about the sun and the moon, seven stars, and the twins and the hand star and associated activities for each.

Additional Resource: Videos of stories read aloud.

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Moon of the Crusted Snow: Reading Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anna Rodrigues
Kaitlyn Watson
Description

To accompany book written by Waubgeshig Rice which tells the story of a small northern Anishinaabe community which finds itself completely isolated from the external world just as winter sets in. The key to survival is reconnecting with the land. Guide is arranged around the themes of land, colonialism, community, gender, language, traditions and culture, and real world events.o accompany story written by 

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Moose Hide Campaign Learning Platform for K-12

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Moose Hide Campaign
Description

Moose Hide Campaign is an Indigenous-led movement to engage men and boys in preventing violence against women and children. Site includes links to teacher resources such as a curriculum guide, lesson plans, and videos.

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Moose Hide = Golǫdhéh

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Nahe Náhodhe – Our Way of Life
Media » Film and Video
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dehcho First Nations
Description

Describes the process of preparing and curing moose hide.

Accompanying video

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Mother Earth, Grandfather Sun

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl M. Bartlett
Green Teacher, no. 86, 2009, pp. 29-32
Description

A "two-eyed" seeing activity for teaching about solstices and equinoxes.

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Music Is the Medicine: Educational Resource

Alternate Title
Docs for Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Description
Teacher's guide for the documentary which follows blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Derek Miller, a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, as he releases a CD.
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My Family

E-Books
Author/Creator
Penny Condon
Description

Story suitable for Grades K-3.

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My Indian, Written by Mi'sel Joe and Sheila O'Neill

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Breakwater Study Guides
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Breakwater Books
Description

Historical fiction about Sylvester Joe, a Mi'kmaq guide hired by William Epps Cormack to help him find the last remaining Beothuk camps on Newfoundland. Lesson plan suitable for Grades 7 to 12.

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My Name is Seepeetza [by] Shirley Sterling: A Novel Study

Alternate Title
Teacher Reference Sheet
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Regional Vancouver Island Aboriginal Circle
Description

Recommended grade level 8 and up. Book is about a girl's life at residential school and her contrasting life at home before she was sent there.

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My Seasonal Round: An Integrated Unit for Elementary Social Studies and Science

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Janet Bartz
Leanne Baugh
Jean Bowman
Anne Hill
Ken Lees … [et al.]
Description

Seasonal round refers to First Nations groups' cycle of moving from one resource-gathering area to another throughout the year. This resource looks patterns in four geographic regions in British Columbia and explores topics such habitat, natural resources, and stability and change. Revised version.

Related material: Blackline masters.

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The Mystery of the Bell

Alternate Title
The Mystery of the Bell: Teacher Resource Guide
Doc Zone
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Mark Starowicz
Wayne Chong
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Description

Documentary looks into the disappearance and re-appearance of the 'The Bell of Batoche' which was proported to have been seized by soldiers during the North-West Resistance. Duration: 45:09.

Related Material: Teacher Resource Guide.

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Nationalism in the North: Exploring Land Claims and Treaties with the Historical Timeline of the Northwest Territories: A Resource Guide for Teachers of Social Studies 20-1 and 20-2

Alternate Title
Nationalism in the North Teacher's Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mindy Willett
Description
Resource for teachers of Grade 11 Social Studies. For use with the textbooks: Perspectives on Nationalism and Exploring Nationalism and Understanding Nationalism.
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Native American Academic Performance: Does School Type Matter?

Alternate Title
Class of 2011 Research Paper No. 2, November 2011
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Blythe George
Description
Based on use of culturally relevant course materials and teaching methods, examines if Native American students in charter schools perform better than in public schools .
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Native American Boarding Schools

Alternate Title
Primary Source Set
Web Sites » Governmental
Description
Library of Congress site linking to primary sources with citations and specific lesson on Indian boarding schools.
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Native American Dolls

Alternate Title
Smithsonian in Your Classroom
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Genevieve Marie Simermeyer
Lynn-Steven Engelke
Smithsonian in Your Classroom, Fall, 2004, pp. 1-28
Description

Lesson plan for elementary school students which looks at Native American dolls, how they are made and the cultures they represent.

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Native American Indian Art

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Paula Giese
Description
Includes links which highlight individuals in various artistic fields: photography, basketry, picture stories, resources, and museums as well as narratives, stories and legends.
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Native American Moons

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Brad Snowder]
Description

Lists names of months in a wide variety of North American Indigenous languages.

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Native American Music and Dance

Alternate Title
Native America: Understanding the Past through Things
[Yale National Initiative National Seminars]
Curriculum Units by National Fellows of the the Yale National Initiative ; 2006, Volume IV
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Enetta Nelson Rose
Description

Unit focuses on the Choctaw and Coushatta, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and Illinois cultures.

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Native American Sky

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Brad Snowder]
Description

Lists English translations of cultural groups' names for: the Milky Way, North Star, Big Dipper, Orion's Belt, Cassiopeia, Pleiades, Corona Borealis, Scorpius, and Aurora Borealis.

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Native American Starlore

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
[Brad Snowder]
Description

Tells some of the traditional stories associated with astronomical features of the night sky.

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Native Americans

Alternate Title
Native Americans Teacher Guide
Core Knowledge History and Geography
Core Knowledge Curriculum Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Rosie McCormick
Description

Five stories intended for use with Kindergarten students.

Accompanying Material: Teacher Guide.

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Native Americans in Basal Reading Textbooks: Are There Enough?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Reyhner
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 26, no. 1, October 1986, pp. [14-22]
Description
Study surveyed a number of stories with Native American characters, how they are portrayed and extent of realism in stories.
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Native Americans in Elementary School Social Studies Textbooks

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maxel J. Ferguson
Dan B. Fleming
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 23, no. 2, January 1984, pp. [10-15]
Description
Study assesses Native American content of 34 elementary textbooks used in Virginia including some used nationwide.
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