The following is an expert from the full book. It is the first 26 pages of Natural Curiosity 2nd Edition: The Importance of Indigenous Perspectives in Children's Environmental Inquiry.
Welcome to this eLearning, Nisitohtamowin ᓂᓯᑐᐦᑕᒧᐃᐧᐣ. This one hour course provides an introduction to understanding Indigenous perspectives in Canada.
Taking action towards understanding Indigenous perspectives can lead to reconciliation, better relationships, and various opportunities when it comes to the economy, community partnerships, the environment, business, and beyond. This course is just a first step on the journey to understanding. We encourage all participants to seek further learning opportunities either with Indigenous Peoples in your own region or at First Nations University of Canada.
This course is available free to the public until September 2025.
North Star chronicles the exceptional journey of Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, a young, Quebec-born Innu astrophysicist who’s leading a massive research project at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Drawing on a worldview rooted in a love of nature, as well as her talents as a science communicator, Laurie shares her passion for the study of celestial objects.
North Star chronicles the exceptional journey of Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, a young, Quebec-born Innu astrophysicist leading a massive research project at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Drawing on a worldview rooted in a love of nature, as well as her talents as a science communicator, Laurie shares her passion for the study of celestial objects.
The site has options for:
- Kids (recommended for K-5 students)
- General Resources (recommended for older students and a general audience)
- Advanced Resources (recommended for independent researchers)
- Resources for University of the Arctic students
- Resources for K-12 Teachers
The "For Kids" section contains information about the northern countries. On this site, students can be a detective, looking at images and writing about and by people of the North to try to discover the story they tell. Or, they can look at exhibits, where other people have told one story based on the same information.
Resources for teachers includes questions, activities, and points to other sites which may be of interest to students and of assistance in developing your lesson plans. In some cases, references can be linked directly back to one of the exhibits created specifically for this site. Additionally, there are links to other resources which may be of use.
Bienvenue sur ONF.ca/éducation; l'espace de visionnage en ligne primé de l'Office national du film du Canada proposant plus de 5000 productions
Reconciliation is about exploring the past and choosing to build a better future. Sharing stories of understanding helps one another to build trust. We want to hear about your moments of reconciliation.
Head to the "Education" Tab to access resources.
This site offers many interactive games, lesson plans and activities to support the Algonquin culture.
The Omàmiwininì Pimàdjwowin mission is to revitalize, reintegrate, enhance and protect the cultural traditions, customs, practices, heritage, language and arts of the Algonquins of Pikwakangan First Nation.
Phyllis Webstad explains the story of her experience at Residential School and the origination of Orange Shirt Day in Canada. She discusses the present situa...
This site offers definitions, pronunciations and symbols for learning, understanding representing the Cree language.
If the site doesn't work, please try copying and pasting this address into your browser: http://kids.creedictionary.com/
Learn more about the treaties, treaty relationships and treaty rights that shape Ontario.
On this page
- Treaties
- The treaty relationship
- Treaty rights
- List of treaties in Ontario
- Treaties Recognition Week
- Treaty learning resources
5 Films...
"Orange Shirt Day was launched in 2013 to call attention to 165 years of residential school experiences (1831-1996). For residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad, the severing of the threads connecting her to family, community, and culture began in 1973, when the beautiful orange shirt she wore to her first day of school was stripped from her and never seen again. The removal of the orange shirt was the first of a series of destructive methods enforced to deplete her sense of self-worth, erase her culture, and suppress her spirit. Her story is just one of the experiences described by countless survivors, but many others did not live to tell their own story. Intergenerational experiences rooted in the trauma inflicted through residential schools and other forced-assimilation policies continue to ripple through communities today...."
This resource, as the disclaimer says, is a continuing work in progress mapping out territories, languages and treaties. On this website you are able to click on an area and find out about related treaties and Indigenous languages. They have also developed a teacher’s guide.
Our Homes Are Bleeding - Digital Collection
The "Our Homes Are Bleeding" collection has grown out of the stories of cut-off lands in British Columbia. These stories are a part of the history of the reserve system in Canada, aboriginal title and rights and First Nations resistance to colonial assertion of land title.
The digital collection draws together several types of primary materials. The records of the McKenna McBride Royal Commission (1913 - 1916) include transcripts of testimonies given to the Commission, photographs and maps. Additional historical records, including maps, documents, newspaper articles, photographs, audio and video clips, show the continual assertion of aboriginal title and rights. Resource lists, narrative essays, a student webquest and teacher's resources have been developed to support the use of the collection.
Material relating to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples, found in Saskatchewan cultural and heritage collections.
Learn how to do Men's Fancy Dance step by step
Socially-based Curriculum Unit
In this unit developed for NAC1O (Expressing Aboriginal Culture), students create a collaborative art piece that expresses Aboriginal identity in a variety of areas. The collaborative art piece consists of many individual pieces of art that form together to form the word “pride.” Each letter has a group assigned to it, and each letter is assigned a theme/idea (ie. clanship, land claims, traditional teachings, community activities, etc) that is researched and then expressed in the artwork of each letter and presented to the class.
Students are provided with an opportunity to discover why Aboriginal peoples identify and are concerned with certain social and political issues. They are also given the opportunity to research an assigned topic, express themselves creatively, work in a group setting, discuss salient issues, and present to their peers. The project also fosters a sense of classroom unity via large group collaboration.
This interactive Atlas focuses on historical written evidence of Inuit presence in most of the Canadian Arctic. It contains a selection of material obtained from hundreds of published and unpublished documents produced by explorers, ethnographers and other visitors who were in contact with Inuit during the early contact period or shortly before Inuit moved to permanent settlements. A very significant proportion of those trails and place names are still used today. The Atlas is a database, and the sources can be found through searches, or clicking on the features on the map. Each document has been given a geographic reference (which in some cases, it occupies the whole Canadian Arctic). Whenever possible Inuit place names and trails encountered in the documents were digitized separately.
This YouTube video addresses the issue of how history has effected the lives of Aboriginal peoples in our country. Presented by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Lyrics:
From unmarked graves their bones cry out;
"Don't let what happened to us be forgotten"
Indian hunters were paid for each scalp by the government.
You have nothing to be proud of, my white friend.
but, it's your world. it's your world.
And, if ever there was a perfect crime...
if ever there was a perfect crime...
I grew up in an empty room in a foster house full of strangers.
every dream i had about going home never ever did come true.
They lie broken like the promises that litter every street and every alley in your world. In your world.
And if ever there was a perfect crime...
if ever there was a perfect crime...
From ourselves we hide, from the darkness deep inside.
You took away our pride. And you'll never know what you have done.
If ever there was a perfect crime...
If ever there was a perfect crime...
If ever there was a perfect crime...
If ever there was a perfect crime...
if ever there was a perfect crime...
From unmarked graves their bones cry out; "Don't let what happened to us be forgotten"
Ce dossier thématique présente des ressources (films, entrevues, légendes autochtones, etc.) qui peuvent servir de pistes pour valoriser et s’ouvrir aux perspectives autochtones. Elles nous font découvrir les contributions historiques, le patrimoine unique et traitent de divers enjeux des Premiers Peuples d’hier à aujourd’hui.
Voici 12 ressources au sujet des perspectives autochtones pour la 1re à la 6e année.