Interactive activities to help you learn Cree. Listen to songs and audio in Cree.

Sarah Shuttleworth has been Métis-style jigging since the age of four and loves to share her love for the dance whenever given the opportunity. The Red River Jig originates from the Red River Settlement, now commonly known as Winnipeg, and is the dance of the Métis people.

The Learning Circle is designed to help meet Canadian educators' growing need for elementary-level learning exercises on First Nations. It is the third in a series of four classroom guides on First Nations in Canada.

The Legacy of Hope Foundation is a very comprehensive site that offers lots of great resources that help to promote healing and Reconciliation in Canada. The Legacy of Hope Foundation's (LHF) goal is to educate and raise awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential School System (RSS) and subsequent Sixties Scoop (SS) on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) Survivors, their descendants, and their communities to promote healing and Reconciliation.Check out each of the sections to see the great resources they have to offer. 

A virtual storybook titled Let's Go Buy Food. This storybook was developed for Plains Cree Nursery Family Units. The
storybook itself can be downloaded for free and is also available online in Flash.
Please visit http://www.giftoflanguageandculture.ca/ for many other storybooks online.

Night Sky Star Stories Makinak: The Turtle
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Indigenous Canada is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada.

From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.

Indigenous Canada is for students from faculties outside the Faculty of Native Studies with an interest in acquiring a basic familiarity with Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relationships.

Take the course for free by choosing the audit option on Coursera.

This is a recently developed Youtube series that uses code-switching or "translanguaging" to teach English speakers Michif words. Each episode is approximately 12 minutes and features a recurring cast of characters that teach about Michif culture as well as language. Predominantly Heritage Michif is used, but there is a character who speaks the Northern dialect as well.

Molly finds an old photo of Grandpa as a child and is shocked to see him singing and drumming—Grandpa never sings. Molly learns about Grandpa’s time in a residential school (or a boarding school, as it’s referred to in the episode).

Listen to Elder Hazel talk about Kôhkom, her conundrum and how she cleverly comes up with a solution during her walk through the forest. Based on Vera Trembach's Moss Bag Stories

Métis culture will continue to be lived and celebrated when we pass our knowledge on to the generations who follow us.
Everyone is on a learning journey. While exploring historical and contemporary Métis ways of knowing and doing, these learning packages provide knowledge and understanding for students and teachers. Topics include: Traditional Harvesting Methods, Geographical Terms, Music and Dance, Conversational Michif, Beading, and Traditional Foods. The lesson plans and videos highlight Knowledge Keepers walking in the tall prairie grass, Elders preparing la galette (bannock), students learning Michif numbers, and family greeting each other for tea. We hope these resources will assist you in your learning.

The National Film Board (NFB) streaming video database includes documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works. The NFB showcases films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians—stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more.Content is available in both French and English.

June is National Indigenous History Month. Here are some resources to help you learn more or get started recognizing this important part of our Canadian Heritage.

NFB Education is proud to partner with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to help teachers educate students about Indigenous realities during National Truth and Reconciliation Week, as well as throughout the year.

This year, the theme of National Truth and Reconciliation Week is “Remembering the Children,” where we memorialize the children lost to the residential school system and honour Survivors and their families. The expanded program features age-appropriate material for students in Grades 1–12.

All sessions will be held virtually on Hubilo. Registration is required to stream live or pre-recorded sessions and to participate in the Q&A segment. The link for registration is provided on this page.

Each year, Indspire supports thousands of Indigenous students with reaching their educational
goals. A strong relationship exists between educational attainment and career success.
Therefore, understanding education as an integral part of career transition allows for the
creation of appropriate supports. With these supports, more students can be well prepared to
successfully transition into their careers of choice. Through inspiring Indigenous education and
achievement, Indspire can positively influence these students’ socioeconomic outcomes. To
support them in this journey, Indspire is interested in understanding Indigenous student
experiences in achieving career aspirations and to identify what supports they require for
success in the school-to-work transition. This helps identify areas to strengthen for Indspire’s
Rivers to Success (R2S) Indigenous Mentorship program, as well as for other organizations
looking to provide relevant support for Indigenous career success.
Indspire invests in educational achievement to support the long-term benefit of Indigenous
people, their communities, and Canada. The negative impacts of colonization have a direct
relation to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people experiencing poverty and
unemployment (MacKinnon, 2015). With the growing number of Indigenous students entering
post-secondary education and the workforce, it is a crucial time to ensure there is support for
achieving their full potential (MacKinnon, 2015). Indigenous students will provide an
increasingly significant source of labour that helps enrich Canada and work towards a path to
reconciliation. This is important for closing existing socioeconomic gaps and contributing to a
more equitable society where both Indigenous and non-Indigenous worldviews are valued in
education and the workplace.

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.