Here are the resources discussed in the presentation, plus a few more that teachers will find helpful for use in their classrooms.
Program Department Blog: Indigenous Content
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Links
- Calls to Action
- Summary of the Final Report
- Survivours Speak: Stories of Surviviours of Residential Schools
- Principals of Truth and Reconciliation
Art Resources
Indigenous Arts and Stories
Contemporary Indigenous Musicians
- A Tribe Called Red
- Frank Waln
- Tanya Tagaq
- Dj Waln
- The Jerry Cans
- Jeremy Dutcher
Google will help you find more
CBC Radio
Indigenous Music
Art Resources:
Contemporary Indigenous Arts In the Classroom
- https://oaggao.ca/contemporary-indigenous-arts-classroom
- https://oaggao.ca/sites/default/files/webmaster/CIAC-English-Online-Compressed.pdf
Great resource!
The last lesson talks about appropriating symbols used in works of art.
Ophea
This resource no longer found online.
We have downloaded all the PDFs and saved them in this Google Folder.
Kindergarten (And Primary)
This is a really great resource on play-based/inquiry learning based on Indigenous Perspectives.
Isaac Murdoch and Christie Belcourt: Onaman Collective
Art posters: Water Is Life
Indigenous Perspectives Educators Guide
A digital textbook - Indigenous Perspective Educators Guide - a phenomenal resource
Pow Wow Sweat
This is the example of the Men’s Grass dance, but there are many other videos
(Very) Short list of my current favourite books to share with classes
- Go Show the World by Wab Kinew
- http://goodminds.com/go-show-world-celebration-indigenous-heroes-hardcover-ed
- There are blog posts and teacher resources on this book on the Program Department Blog
- The Water Walker by Joanne Robertson (again, Blog post, curriculum connections)
- There are blog posts and teacher resources on this book on the Program Department Blog
- As Long as the Rivers Flow by Larry Loyie
- http://goodminds.com/long-rivers-flow-last-summer-residential-school-paper-ed
- Resource: http://firstnationswriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Rivers-Study.pdf
- When We Were Alone by David A Robertson
- http://goodminds.com/when-we-were-alone-hardcover-ed-2018-fncr
- Program Department blog posts about residential school
- Speaking Our Truth by Tasha Henry
- 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
- (LKDSB book club: https://21thingsbookclublkdsb.blogspot.com/)
- 7 Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
- My Conversations With Canadian by Lee Maracle
