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Evaluating American Indian Materials and Resources for the Classroom

Alternate Title
[Indian Education for All]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Murton McCluskey
Laura Ferguson
Discusses criteria for selecting or rejecting each type of material including: content, illustrations, and accompanying sections such as discussion questions, bibliographies, and further activities. Guidelines equally applicable to Canadian context. Rev. ed.
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The Experimental Eskimos

Alternate Title
Docs for Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Teacher's resource for the documentary The Experimental Eskimos directed by Barry Greenwald. Tells the stories of Peter Ittinuar, Zebedee Nungak, and Eric Tagoona, three Inuit men who were sent to Ottawa as 12-year-olds for a "white" education. The men eventually became leaders in the Inuit community and helped to advance the interests of their people.
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Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum

Alternate Title
Lesson Plans on Inuit Culture
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc.
Resources grouped into Grades 4 to 6, Grades 7 to 9, and Grade 10 and above. Many lesson plans are linked to films produced by Isuma TV.
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Exploring Motion-Related Technology Through a First Nations' Game: A Lesson to Support Science 10

Alternate Title
Teaching Materials from the Stewart Resources Centre, Saskatchewan Teachers Federation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Hlady

Lesson from the unit in the Science 10 Curriculum Guide entitled Physical Science: Motion in Our World (MW), which can be used as an introduction to the concept of motion. The lesson uses a First Nations’ game, snow snakes, to illustrate motion.

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[Exploring the Languages of Métis]

Alternate Title
[Language of the Métis Classroom Labels]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Rupertsland Institute, Education Team]

Designed for Grade 4.

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Exploring the Stories Behind Native American Boarding Schools

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Library of Congress

Lesson plan involves students looking at primary source documents about people (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) who participated in the schools and then assuming their identity and writing a journal.

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Factors Facilitating and Impeding Implementation of a Prevention Program in an Innu Elementary School in Quebec

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie-Christine Cotton
Myriam Laventure
Jacques Joly
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 29-47
Research summary of a study of an Innu school-based drug and alcohol prevention program intended to identify barriers and facilitators for substance use prevention strategies and education. Major barriers identified include: overloaded staff and difficulty scheduling training.
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Fast Forward: Growing Up in Nunavut

Alternate Title
CBC-TV News in Review
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
CBC News in Review, May 2005, pp. 48-61
Classroom lesson plan to accompany segment on DVD Best of News in Review: Native Studies.
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Fatty Legs Novel Study: Answer Key

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kerry Aiken
Resource for teaching the children's book about an Inuit girl and her experiences at a residential school. Book is suitable for Grades 4-7.
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Fatty Legs Novel Study: Student Questions

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kerry Aiken
Resource for teaching the children's book about an Inuit girl and her experiences at a residential school. Book is suitable for Grades 4-7.
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The Feast System

Alternate Title
Indians of Washington State
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Willard Bill

Brief descriptions of the potlatch, first salmon ceremony and first root festival.

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Finding Dawn: A Guide for Teaching and Action

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Fay Blaney
Guide to accompany film, Finding Dawn. Oriented toward Aboriginal groups, professionals and students; contains discussion questions and activities for each group which relate to key learning objectives and discussion themes.
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Finding Our Way: Discussion Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Leone Sandercock
Scott Graham
Film about conflict between the Ts’il Kaz Koh First Nation (Burns Lake Band) and the Village of Burns Lake. In 2000 the municipality cut off water and sewage services to the reserve, which led in turn to the Band taking the Village to the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
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Findings and Recommendations Prepared by the Bureau of Indian Education Study Group Submitted to the Secretaries of the Departments of the Interior and Education

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bureau of Indian Education
Looks at some of the problems in the Bureau of Indian Affairs-funded school systems including: recruitment of effective teachers to work in remote locations, compliance with academic standards, introducing research-based reforms, and working with less resources and funding.
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Fire Keeping-Oshkaabewis – Matter

Alternate Title
Indigenous Knowledge and Science: Fire Keeper
[FNMI Elementary Curriculum Resources]
[Indigenous Peoples' Curriculum Resources]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Science Teachers of Ontario]

Designed for Grade 5 science. Lesson number 2.

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First and Second Wave Native American Literature

Alternate Title
Curriculum Units by Fellows of the National Initiative ; 2016, Volume 1
Contemporary American Indian HIstory
[Yale Initiative National Seminars]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tara Ann Carter

Students analyze Winter in the Blood by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie,

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First Nations Agriculture in Saskatchewan

Alternate Title
Agriculture: The Heart of Saskatchewan’s Past, Present, and Future
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Agriculture in the Classroom
Topics include the medicine wheel, talking circle protocol, foods from the land, and agriculture on reserves and government policies.
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First Nations and Agriculture

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Agriculture in the Classroom

Contains links to three modules: Sourcing Food, Learning European Methods, and Preventing Success.

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First Nations and Metis Curriculum Units - Series II

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Indian Federated College: Department of Indian Education
Focuses on the heritage of First Nations and Metis people, including topics regarding role models, traditional plants, dances, legends and dwellings. Suitable for a variety of settings and grade levels.
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First Nations & Inuit Technologies

Alternate Title
First Nations and Inuit Technolgies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
We Stand Together

Designed for Grade 3 Social Studies classes. Students learn about indigenous inventions and discoveries and how they helped European settlers.

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First Nations Pedagogy Online

Alternate Title
First Nations Pedagogy for Online Learning
Web Sites » Organizations
Contains links to resources for use in the K-12 classroom.
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First Nations SchoolNet

Web Sites » Organizations
Contains links to: helpdesk, youth program, services, resources for educators, students, administrators and resources in the areas of First Nations History and Politics, First Nations Languages, Native Studies, etc.
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