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Indigenous Education


Cross Curricular Indigenous Know. & Persp.

K Cross Curric. Indig. Know. and Persp.

A resource to access where Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives intersect with the curriculum.

Gr 6 Cross Curric. Indig. Know. & Persp.

A resource to access where Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives intersect with the curriculum.

Gr 7 Cross Curric. Indig. Know. & Persp.

A resource to access where Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives intersect with the curriculum.

Gr 8 Cross Curric. Indig. Know. & Persp.

A resource to access where Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives intersect with the curriculum.

Gr 9 Cross Curric. Indig. Know. & Persp.

A resource to access where Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives intersect with the curriculum.

Michelle Stoney Colouring Pages

Michelle Stoney is a Gitxsan/Cree artist from northern BC who has generously offered to share her artwork with the public.

Truth and Reconciliation Resources

PIE National Truth and Reconciliation Week Resources.pdf

In preparation for Truth and Reconciliation Week, Alyssa Stapleton (PIE's Indigenous Success Teacher) has put together the attached document with some resources for you to consider using at home either leading up to the week or in preparation for it.

First Nations Schools Association

FNESC/FNSA Teacher Resource Guides, Units, Lessons, and Activities for Blended or Remote Learning Contexts

Historica Canada: Curated list of Resources on Indigenous Peoples, Perspectives, and Histories in Canada

Historica Canada: Historica Canada’s curated list of Resources on Indigenous Peoples, Perspectives, and Histories in Canada includes learning tools, videos, podcasts and other resources.

Kairos Blanket Exercise

The Blanket Exercise is based on using Indigenous methodologies and the goal is to build understanding about our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada by walking through pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance.

Justice for Aboriginal Peoples -- It's time (Video)

Video to accompany the Blanket exercise

The Witness Blanket

A new interactive website allows users to explore Indigenous artwork featuring objects from every residential school in Canada. Includes a teachers' guide, a resource guide and more

Various Aboriginal Education Resources

SD71 Indigenous Education website

The website features an overview of our Indigenous Education programs and services, including information and links to the local K’ómoks First Nation territory, information on our Ni’noxsola (knowledge keepers) and Indigenous Education Council, access to learning resources, and much more. We have also included links to our Facebook and YouTube pages where you will find information and videos we created locally with our Elders and Cultural Support Resource people.

Aboriginal Education

A collection of Ab Ed resources put together by SD 73

Authentic First Peoples Content

Developed by the First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC) with assistance from the British Columbia Ministry of Education

Classroom Resources

This page has lots of information about First Nations, Metis and Inuit culture

4 Mi’kmaq Legends

4 short films that bring, through ingenious animation and theatre, their legends to life.

First Nations Pedagogy

Interconnection is a central core of First Nations, Inuit and Metis worldviews

First Nations Education Steering Committee

A collection of unappropriated First Peoples’ perspectives across the curriculum.

First Peoples of Canada

An overview of Canada's First Peoples.

Great Bear Sea

Ready to go, organized Lesson plans complete with blackline masters, maps, video clips. These lessons very directly address much of the First Peoples curriculum, and would be excellent work samples for your teacher.

HBC Hamper

Using artifacts from this digital hamper, teachers and students can explore the many contributions that Hudson’ s Bay Company made during the early years of Canada’s history.

Indigenous Perspectives Education Guide

This guide aims to engage students in thinking critically about our historical narratives, and help them consider how both individual and collective worldviews shape — and are shaped by — history.

Living Tradition

The Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch on the northwest coast.

Never Alone Video Game

A game developed in collaboration with the Iñupiat, an Alaska Native people.

Strong Nations

Collection of First Nations stories and resources

Traditional Food Fact Sheet

Information on traditional First Nations foods

U'mista Cultural Society

Information about the U'mista Cultural Society in Alert Bay

First Peoples Principles of Learning

fnesc's Principles of Learning poster

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