Resources

The Nunavut Food Guide contains lots of images describing important health messages and behaviours, and it has very few words.

Audio recordings of Cayuga words and phrases.

This site is based out of Ontario, and has a whole section on educational resources (for a cost). For a fee, they will host cultural workshops on a variety of topics. The cultural centre is located in M"Chigeeng, Ontario, and is open to the public for a fee.

From the video: "Dr. Nathalie Sinclair (Simon Fraser University) learning about the Ojibwe number systems with Jason Jones (Native Language Curriculum Coordinator, Rainy River District School Board)."

On/Me is an encyclopedia of Cunningham, who shares some of her most sacred moments with the hope to spark a conversation that needs to be had. (From Caitlin Press)

In One Drum, Wagamese wrote, "I am not a shaman. Nor am I an elder, a pipe carrier, or a celebrated traditionalist. I am merely one who has trudged the same path many of this human family has — the path of the seeker, called forward by a yearning I have not always understood."

Links to resources about the Oneida Language

List of links to resources by the Ontario Ministry of Education.

Lakota Rapper Frank Waln discusses how museums perpetuate the sterotype that native cultures are dead cultures of the past. "We're a people with a past, not of the past."

A learning centre for promoting Inuit culture and language for Inuit children, youth, and their families through cultural programming and parenting support and education.

Venne, Sharon Helen. Our Elders Understand Our Rights Evolving International Law Regarding Indigenous Rights. British Columbia. Theytus Books Ltd., 1998.

From the website: The Challenge has quickly become the largest and most recognizable essay writing competition in Canada for Aboriginal youth (secondary). Du site web : Ce concours est devenu l’épreuve de rédaction la plus importante et la plus identifiable qui soit destinée à la jeunesse autochtone du Canada (sécondaire).

In this direct, concise and essential volume, Harold R. Johnson examines the justice system's failures to deliver "peace and good order" to Indigenous people.

Alfred, Taiaiake. Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto. Oxford University Press, 1999.

The museum, located on the Bowdoin College campus in Brunswick, Maine, hosts a permanent collection built around material donated by Donald B. MacMillan during his career as an Arctic explorer and researcher.

This guide is designed to bring issues affecting Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people into the classroom in a manner that speaks directly to youth.

From the report: "Aboriginal education is not just for Aboriginal students. All of Ontario’s students should know about the long and complex history of the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada, and all students should have a deep understanding of historical and contemporary First Nations, Métis and Inuit culture, perspectives, and experiences."

PEP is a tool, similar to the Running Record, that aides teachers to assess their students' reading performance.

List of links related to philosophy lesson plans for senior students.

Lesson purpose: "To assist Teacher Candidates in understanding the historical trauma experienced by the First Peoples of Canada and its effects on their contemporary lives. A specific examination of ‘ethnostress’ provides insight into the needs of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students in public schools."