Resources

Discusses the Battle of Seven Oaks involving Cuthbert Grant, Governor Semple and Lord Selkirk.

Geared toward Grades 10 to 12.

Children's book retells the Muckleshoot traditional story. Suitable for use with Grades K-3.

Related Material: Lesson Plan.

Includes key definitions, questions and answers. For use with Chapter 8: The Metis from the textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.

Lesson plans for Grades 4--8. Indigenous Perspectives section begins on p. 329.

Focuses on the Mi'maq, Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinabe nations. Answer key.

For use with chapter from textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.

Nine modules: Origins and Connections to the Land; Pre-Contact Cultures; Early European Exploration and Colonization; Nouvelle-France and Cultural Integration; French-English Rivalry; Refugees, Warriors and Reformers; Negotiating Confederation; Furs, Farms and the Métis; and Treaties, War, and the Changing West.

Integrates Dene, Inuvialuit and Inuinnait perspectives on history.

"Territorial Pilot 2011-2012".

Storybook for use with primary school students.

For use with the book by Monique Gray Smith. Includes summary, essential questions, key concepts, vocabulary and learning activities for each chapter of book. Recommended for ages 9-13.

Young children's about the long fight for equal funding for First Nations' education before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

Each month children take part in an activity which fosters cross-cultural understanding.

Films feature 40 Indigenous tribes and nations and give insights into spiritual practices, foods and medicines, art and music, shelter and land management associated with the natural environment.

Related Material: Videos.

Brief description of some of the uses of the tree.

Accompanying video.

Role playing game which involves John A. Macdonald asking students to become spies and send information back to the government. Suitable for Grades 5-11.

Related Material: Video.

Includes stories about stars and constellations such as the Sweat Lodge, the Great Bear Hunt, the Dog Stars, and Kokominakasis.

Related resource: Cree Star Map

Brief description of stories associated with stars and constellations such as Ajiijaak (Cygnus), Biboonkeonini the Winter Maker, Jiibay Ziibi (Milky Way), Maang (Ursa Minor), and Ojiig (Big Dipper).

Related resources: Ojibwe Constellation Guide + Ojibwe Gizhig Anung Masinaaigan; Ojibwe Star Map.

Teacher resource for The Star People: A Lakota Story by S.D. Nelson. Target age is Kindergarten to Grade 3.

Series of nine short animated videos which tell traditional Ankara, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chipewyan, Ho-Chunk, Chippewa, Cree, Mohawk, and Paiute stories about how certain stars and constellations came to be.

Brief description of stories associated with stars and constellations such as Agleoeka (Cygnus), Chanśáśa ipúsye (dried or red willow), Gleœka Wakaŋ (Sacred Hoop), Keya (Pegasus), and Wanagi Tacanku (Milky Way).

Related resources: Constellation Guide; Dakota and Lakota Star Map

Grade 6 Math lesson uses a Haida creation story as a starting point for exploring the concept of surface area.

Lesson plan for data management component of Grade 6 math curriculum.

Story about a little Cree girl who helps her grandfather learn 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 6-9 (Grades 1-4). Text in English with some Cree vocabulary.

Designs by artists from the Dish with One Spoon Treaty territory feature animals from the region and are labelled in Ojibway and English.

Grade Four Social Studies curriculum focuses on the stories of Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Territories.

Accompanying Material: Student Activity Book.

Geared toward Grades 7 to 10. The three stories are: :Nuliajuk, Kaugjagjuk, and Nanurluk.