From the website: Integrating
Turtle Island Voices into the classoom not only helps foster a sense of identity among Indigenous students but enriches all First Nations, Métis and Inuit perspectives.
- Offers Indigenous children a unique opportunity to see themselves in their learning materials.
- Offers all children the opportunity to recognize the role and contributions of Indigenous peoples in the life, culture, and heritage of Canada.
- Introduces the concepts of inter-connectedness, respect for life, and the quest for a better future.
- Encourages children to become empathetic and more aware of family, community and global issues.
Lessons and content to incorporate Indigenous perspectives into classrooms, emphasizing literacy. Online tools and resources to engage students with material through a balanced literacy approach. Each lesson includes how it can be used to activate and encourage reconciliation in and through the classroom.
Under One Sun: NEW! Under One Sun invites Kindergarten – Grade 2 students and teachers to learn about, and learn from, Aboriginal history, culture, and perspectives. The series offers contemporary Aboriginal content with extensive support for teachers. The balanced literacy approach provides rich opportunities for modelled, shared, guided and independent reading. Under One Sun offers print and digital formats.
Circle of Life: The IEC (Indigenous Education Coalition) has partnered with Nelson Education to bring you and your students the Circle of Life series, levelled books for guided and independent reading in grades 1-6. This collection of narrative and nonfiction books offers unique content that engages your students, and deepens appreciation and understanding of Indigenous cultures and traditions.
The Oyate website offers a comprehensive list of criteria for evaluating literature resources for use in classrooms, both within and without an Aboriginal Education context. This list is a companion piece to the book "
How To Tell The Difference: A Guide to Evaluating Children's Books for Anti-Indian Bias", which includes a list of criteria for evaluating anti-Indian bias on the book website.
By Debbie Reese.
From the website: "American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical perspectives and analysis of indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society. Scroll down for links to book reviews, Native media, and more..."
by Craig S. Womack, 1999.
by Daniel Justice, 2006.
by Thomas King, 1990.
by Daniel David Moses, 2011.
by Daniel David Moses and Terrie Goldie, 2005.
by Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles, 2003.
by Monique Mojica and Richard Paul Knowles, 2009.
by Anton Truer, 2001.
by Renate Eigenbrod, Georgina Kakegamic and Josias Fiddler
by Daniel David Moses, 2007.
by Jeanette C. Armstrong and Lalage Grauer, 2001.
Video clips of IBC programs on Inuit life today. Suitable for elementary to High School.
CDs of Inuit Legends produced by CBC North broadcasters and featuring stories such as Qallupalik - The Sea Creature and The Man from the Moon. Suitable for High School students.
Dene K'ee Gudeh, "the Dene Language", is an app and website that aims to help people learn the Dene Zhatie language, also known as South Slavey.
An app and educational game for learning Inuktitut, the Inuit dialect of Nunavik.
A website for Cree language education, with curriculum resources from nursery to grade 9.
A 2010 article in University Affairs about endangered indigenous languages in Canada and various revitilization projects that intend to give voice to ancestral knowledge and connect children, youth, adults, and elders through cultural and linguistic programming.
From the website: "We hope this website will serve as the official resource for the Ojibwe language creating a unique and reputable location that people throughout the world can access for learning the language, and the various dialects spoken throughout our region. This revitalization project will serve as a library of resources, including the archiving of not only our language, but also our elders through the audio and video segments throughout the site."
From the website: "The talking dictionary project is developing an Internet resource for the Mi'gmaq/Mi’kmaq language. Each headword is recorded by a minimum of three speakers. Multiple speakers allow one to hear differences and variations in how a word is pronounced. Each recorded word is used in an accompanying phrase. This permits learners the opportunity to develop the difficult skill of distinguishing individual words when they are spoken in a phrase."
From the resource: " The mission of the Gabriel Dumont Institute (GDI) is two-fold: to promote the renewal and development of Metis culture through research, materials development, collection and distribution of those materials and the design, development and delivery of Metis-specific educational programs and services."
CBC, May 18 2010.
CBC, January 21 2009.
CBC, February 10, 2009.
From the website:"Established in 2006, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical perspectives and analysis of indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society. Scroll down for links to book reviews, Native media, and more."
From the website: "The Secwepemc stories present a colourful world of animals transforming into people, of plants having human characteristics, and of the past becoming the future."
CBC, December 6, 2016. An article suggesting three great children's books written by Indigenous authors (ages 3 and up; 4 and up; and 9-12).
