Resources

Uses the Madison Buffalo Jump State Park as a starting point to discuss the buffalo's importance in the economies, cosmologies, social organization, and spiritual life of Indigenous peoples of the plains. Recommended for use with Grade 9-12 students.

Brief text accompanied by archival photographs. Suitable for use with elementary school students.

Resource for teaching number, pattern and space/shapes by incorporating images and forms used in First Nations art. Includes black line masters.

Colouring book with Ojibwe and English text.

Describes setting up a tent and benefits of spruce matting.

Accompanying video.

Looks at the need for quality education for First Nations children equitable to that of all other Canadian children.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.18.

Six stories connected to the Northwest coast canoe in one volume: Look at What I Found!; Ocean-Going "Fishing" Canoe; Building of a Canoe; Carving of a Canoe; and Herbie & Slim Nellie's First Journey.

Accompanying Materials: Teacher's Guide; Learner's Text; Pacific Map; Navigation

Primarily designed for Kindergarten to Grade 5 students enrolled in Chinuk Wawa immersion programs.

What Do I Bail? student booklet in English. What Do I Bail? student booklet in Chinuk Wawa.

Book recommended for Grades 3-7.

Three stories about bullying prevention, justice and belonging told in English, Cree, Inuktitut, Michif, Mohawk, Oji-Cree, Ojibwe, and Oneida.

Introduction to biases and stereotypes about Indigenous and other groups.

Lesson plans focus on Native Americans who are fighting invisibility and creating change through their work, contributions from the past, and current actions which will impact the future.

Focuses on the numbered treaties and their effect on First Nations and the Métis, and the causes and impacts of the North-West Resistance. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies students.

Chapter from Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity, 2nd Edition, by Michael Cranny.

Overview of Métis history from the 1840s to 1875. Discusses the collapse of the buffalo hunting economy, the establishment of the community of St. Laurent, passing of laws to establish order, and the arrival of the North West Mounted Police. 

Includes questions for students.

For use with chapter from Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.

For use with chapter from Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.

Student handout for use with Grade 7 Social Studies textbook chapter in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.

Related Material: "Competition for Trade" Workbook.

For use with chapter in the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.

Related Material: Competition for Trade Notes (Pt. 2) [Answer Key]

Highlights development of Métis identity and culture and the conflict between colonists and residents of the Red River which culminated in the Red River Resistances of 1869 and 1885. Student handout for use with Chapter from Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.

For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.

For use with chapter from the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada

Focuses on the causes of the Métis Resistances and their implications for the province of Manitoba and Canada as a whole. Intended for use in Grade 7 Social Studies classes.

Chapter from Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives by David Rees, Darrell Anderson Gerrits, and Gratien Allaire.