Hi Ken,

The following resources have been approved by Jean-Paul.  Would you kindly check/write descriptions for each and transfer them to the appropriate sections?  Thank you!  Trina - Jan 31. 2013.

 

Agokwe

From the website:  "Agokwe explores unrequited love between teenage boys from neighbouring reserves. They meet briefly at a post hockey-tournament party where they bashfully confess their desire for each other. However youth, distance and isolation strive to pull the threads apart when tragedy intervenes." 

link has expired; 15 March, 2013

I will link to this preview from the National Arts Centre

http://nac-cna.ca/en/media/newsrelease/3591

Agokwe

From the original website:  "Agokwe explores unrequited love between teenage boys from neighbouring reserves. They meet briefly at a post hockey-tournament party where they bashfully confess their desire for each other. However youth, distance and isolation strive to pull the threads apart when tragedy intervenes."

 

NDNativestudies

This resource seems weak to me: it's a blended learning site (hosted on WordPress) for an aboriginal literature course.  There's no "About" and I can't get a sense of where (or why?) it belongs DKP.  Furthermore, no new content has been posted to this blog since March 2012.  Perhaps as an exemplar of how to deliver content???

I'm going to pass on posting this resource for now.

 

From the database : HCDSB LESSON PLANS

A Creative Culture:  Engage Their Hearts and Minds.  Aboriginal Social Studies and Literacy Through the Arts

http://www.livebinders.com/media/get/MTUxNDQ3MQ==

Level:  (Grades 4-8)

Association:  

Description/Keywords:

Integrating First Nation Teachings

To be formated

montana lessons - http://opi.mt.gov/Programs/IndianEd/curricsearch.html

 

Model Teaching Units Language Arts Elementary Level Volume One

Level:  (Elementary).

Association:  Cree, Montana

Description/Keywords:  From the website - In this week long unit, primary students will develop awareness of the Cree people and language, powwow celebrations and several Essential Understandings about Montana Tribes.  In addition, they will practice and deepen key literacy skills while engaged in the story of Little Duck, an endearing character seeking his place in the world – and attempting, but failing, to pass as a Cree dancer.  

Model Teaching Units, Language Arts – Elementary Level, Volume Two

Level:  (Elementary).

Association:  Pend d'Oreilles, Salish, Kootenai, Kutenai

Description/Keywords:  From the site - This simple unit centers on an easily accessible, yet endlessly fascinating subject for children: shoes. Placed in a contemporary context and examined within the larger category of footwear, moccasins are one example of a whole range of responses to diverse cultural and physical influences, and not a way to “dress like an Indian.” A shoe graphing activity helps activate schema, a shoe museum links personal experiences to text, and students write about their own special shoes. 

Model Teaching Unit for Joseph Bruchac's Jim Thorpe's Bright Path

Level:  Grade 4, (junior).

Association:  Montana, United States of America, Ministry of Education

Description/Keywords:  Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path is a moving biography of Jim Thorpe, beginning with his birth in Oklahoma on the Sac and Fox Indian Reservation and ending with his success as a football player and athlete at Carlisle Indian School.  The story captures the many tragedies and triumphs of Thorpe growing up and will have unique appeal to boys and girls interested in athletics.  Overcoming adversity and hard work are themes present in the text.

Model Teaching Unit for Larry Loyie’s As Long As the Rivers Flow

Level:  Grades 4-8, (junior/intermediate).

Association:  Cree

Description/Keywords:  From the website - "This autobiography tells the story of Larry Loyie’s final summer with his family in 1944, before he and his siblings were required to leave for St.  Bernard Indian Residential School located in Alberta, Canada."

Model Teaching Unit for Louise Erdrich’s The Birchbark House

PowerPoint Presentation:

Level:  Grades 5-8, (junior/intermediate).

Association:

Description/Keywords:

Model Teaching Unit Language Arts Middle School Level for Marlene

Carvell's Sweetgrass Basket

Level:  (junior/intermediate).

Association:  Mohawk, Ministry of Education, Montana

Description/Keywords:  From the site - "Carvell uses prose poetry in alternating voices to illustrate the stories of two Mohawk sisters. Mattie and Sarah are sent to Carlisle, an off‐reservation boarding school where intimidation, corporal punishment, and domestic training are used to assimilate students from their traditions into mainstream America."

Model Teaching Unit Language Arts Middle School Level for Joseph

Bruchac’s Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War

Two

Level:  (junior/intermediate)

Association:  Montana Ministry of Education, Navajo

Description/Keywords:  From the site - Ned Begay grows up attending a boarding school and is taught by white teachers that speaking Navajo is forbidden and if caught speaking it, he will be punished. During high school, he is recruited by the Marines with other Navajo men to become code talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native language. This story is about the importance of the personal and cultural development of a young boy through adulthood and the impact on his life of having been a Navajo Marine Code Talker.

Model Teaching Unit Language Arts Secondary Level For D’Arcy

McNickle’s Wind from an Enemy Sky

Level:  (intermediate/senior).

Association:  Montana

Description/Keywords:   From the site - "Wind from an Enemy Sky is the story of the Little Elk people, a fictional Northwestern tribe, trying to adjust and survive just after the turn of the century as the U.S. government methods of assimilation were straining traditional Indian life. 

Although the novel is fiction, the setting closely resembles the Flathead Reservation.  The issues in the novel include boarding school education, a government push towards agricultural lifestyle forIndians, allotment, and the building of a hydroelectric dam.  They are the same issues the tribes on the Flathead Reservation, as well as other tribes across Montana, were dealing with in this time period."  

Model Teaching Unit Language Arts Secondary Level for James Welch’s

Fools Crow

Level:  (intermediate/senior)

Association:  Montana Ministry of Education.

Description/Keywords:  From the site - "Fools Crow is a powerful lyric novel, a classic in every sense of the word, a storyteller’s masterpiece about a tragedy that is all too emblematic of the Indian experience in America following the coming of the Europeans."

Model Teaching Unit Language Arts Secondary Level for James Welch's

Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the

Plains Indians

Level:  (intermediate/senior).

Association:  Montana Ministry of Education.

Description/Keywords:  From the site - "Killing Custer represents Welch and Stekler’s examinations of personal narratives, the frequently contradictory anthropological evidence, the cultural background of the Plains Indians, the economic and political situation in America at the time, and the stories behind typically empty textbook narratives."

Model Teaching Unit Language Arts Secondary Level for Velma Wallis’

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

Level:  (intermediate/senior).

Association:  Athabascan/Gwich’in, Montana Ministry of Education.

Description/Keywords:  From the site - "Out of her Athabaskan heritage, through mothers and daughters, passed down through generations of many more mothers and daughters, Velma Wallis tells this Athabaskan legend of two seemingly frail and complaining women.  They are members of a Gwich’in hunter-gatherer band that “roamed the area around what is now Fort Yukon and Chalkyitsik, one of eleven distinct Athabaskan groups in Alaska (Wallis 137).”"

Model Teaching Unit Language Arts Secondary Level for Zitkala-Ša’s

American Indian Stories

Level:  (intermediate/senior).

Association:  Montana Ministry of Education

Description/Keywords:  From the site- "The first essay (7-45), "Impressions of an Indian Childhood," is separated into seven sections, and the organization is more episodic than sequential—the way memories of childhood might be recalled.  But every episode evinces jarring shifts in tone from sweet to bitter to tragic.  In this essay, Zitkala-Ša presents the late 19th-century life of a young girl at home on the Dakota prairie, with her mother, her extended family, and her tribal community. The writer shares the lessons in beadwork, hospitality, generosity, and the lessons in stories from her childhood; she recognizes the suffering Indian people have endured from contact with the white man, and she affirms the humanity and valuable Old Ways of her Dakota culture."

 

 

 

more resources

Samian:  Plan Nord

Description/Keywords:  Plan Nord, Rap, Algonquin, Music

Quebec's first Algonquin rapper 

Description/Keywords:  Samian, Algonquin, Rap, Music

Samian:  s'engager contre le Plan Nord

Description/Keywords:  Samian, Algonquin, Rap, Music 

Relations entre Métis et Canada

Description/Keywords:  Méchif, Michif, Métis, Francophone, language, culture, Manitoba

Interview with Romeo Saganash

Description/Keywords:  Saganash, Cree, Politics, Indigenous rights, Quebec.  

Health and Healing - Roundtable on Aboriginal Health

Description/Keywords: Health, Policy

The Economics of Reconciliation

 

Various Ontario Nations

Alderville First Nation

The history section of this site includes information on individuals who have been connected to this nation. 

Algonquins Of Pikwakanagan

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Allen Sapp's Art - Teacher's Resource Guide

This 150 page Teacher Resource Guide includes traditional teachings, biographical material, reproductions of Allen Sapp's paintings and accompanying lesson plans.

 

(THIS NEEDS TO BE VETTED BY GRADE LEVEL)

http://www.curriculum.gov.sk.ca/

FOR CURRICULUM RESOURCES - BY TOPIC AND SUBJECT AREAS - ARTS - GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS and CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL IDENTITIES and CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCES AND ISSUES

 

Allen Sapp Gallery: The Gonor Collection

This website provides access to the paintings in the Allen Sapp Gallery/Gonor Collection in North Battleford, SK.

 

FOR CURRICULUM RESOURCES - BY TOPIC AND SUBJECT AREAS - MUSIC and CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL IDENTITIES and CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCES AND ISSUES

Listen to Allen Sapp perform songs from his childhood

This webpage provides links to six songs performed by Allen Sapp.

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FOR CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL IDENTITIES - Film & Video

The 2003 CBC Massey Lectures, "The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative"

From the website: In his 2003 Massey lecture, award-winning author and scholar Thomas King looks at the breadth and depth of Native experience and imagination.

Beginning with Native oral stories, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America's relationship with its Aboriginal peoples.

 

--stuff for my vetting--

FOR CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL IDENTITIES - websites

from "Footprints"

Biographies of important Aboriginal figures, written from an aboriginal perspective (i.e. it's NOT Wikipedia)

http://www.ammsa.com/community-access/footprints

http://www.ammsa.com/content/chief-dan-george-footprints

Chief Dan George - Lament for Confederation


Huron-Wendat Museum

http://www.hotelpremieresnations.com/musee/concept.php

Virtual Museum - Astronomy and Indigenous Cultures

English

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/edu/LessonDisplay.do?method=display&id=764

French

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/edu/LessonDisplay.do?method=display&id=800

English

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/edu/LessonDisplay.do?method=display&id=825

French

http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/edu/LessonDisplay.do?method=display&id=824


virtualmuseum.ca (Teacher's Centre/Learning Resources)


Articles

Stackhouse, "Dead Dog Cafe" "Comic Heroes or Red Niggers"
http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20011109/FCSTACY

Canada's Apartheid

http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/series/apartheid/

Treaty Resource Kit

http://www.otc.ca/Treaty_Kit_K12/

GC.CA resources

http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/eng/ao31055.html

Glenbow Museum

http://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/teacher_toolkit/index.html

BC Treaty Commission

http://www.bctreaty.net/

Understanding the Treaty Process (B.C.)

http://bctf.ca/IssuesInEducation.aspx?id=5684

Conversations with Khahtsahlano

http://archive.org/details/ConversationsWithKhahtsahlano1932-1954_346

"Red Man, White World"

http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=81117&back_url=%28&&back_url=%28%29

ABORIGINAL MUSIC

Folkways

http://www.folkways.si.edu/advanced-search

http://www.folkways.si.edu/tools_for_teaching/introduction.aspx

http://www.aboriginalmusic.ca/

http://www.aboriginalmusicweek.ca/

http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2833

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/aboriginal-music-song/index-e.html#cont (no lesson plans)

http://www.native-drums.ca/ (includes lesson plans and correlation to Ontario curriculum, though it appears to correspond to an obsolete version of the syllabus)

http://libguides.uvic.ca/content.php?pid=63504&sid=1402424

http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/eng/ao31045.html

http://www.turtleisland.org/education/education.htm

SCIENCE

http://communications.uvic.ca/edge/aboriginal-science.html