Activities for Orange Shirt Day: Every Child Matters – Ninja Notes
Recognize Orange Shirt Day with these books and ideas that can be easily implemented at your school.
First Nations in Canada
First Nations in Canada is an educational resource designed for use by young Canadians; high school educators and students; Aboriginal communities; and anyone interested in First Nations history.
Aboriginal Canada - Visualoop
Featured on Visualoop: http://visualoop.com/blog/7790/this-is-visual-journalism-15
Navajo Code Talkers|Paperback
Navajo Code Talkers tells the story of this special group, who proved themselves to be among the bravest, most valuable, and most loyal of
Residential Schools
The Red Sash
The Red Sash is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago. His father spends the long winter months as a guide, leading voyageurs into the northwest to trade with native people for furs. Now it is Rendezvous, when the voyageurs paddle back to Fort William with their packs of furs, and North West Company canoes come from Montreal bringing supplies for the next season. It is a time of feasting and dancing and of…
FREE CREE IMAGES
Cree Images for FREE, please download to print, use in a classroom or use as a desktop background or in any way you wish except for selling. Click any image to enlarge. Clock Faces and Audio ̵…
10 books about truth and reconciliation to read with your kids | CBC News
More and more children will be reading stories about the legacy of residential schools and reconciliation in the classroom this year.
(3 of 10) Residential Schools by the Numbers 1883: The year the federal government establishes three large residential schools in Western Canada to "kill the Indian in the child." Source: The Canadian Press
Peel 10102: Indian Residential School Commission of the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, Elkhorn Indian Residential School (Diocese of Brandon), Elkhorn, Manitoba (1935)
Indigenous ‘Idle No More’ Movement Sweeps Canada · Global Voices
Thousands of people across Canada mobilized Monday 10 December, 2012 under the banner “Idle No More” to protest the effects of current and proposed government policies on the nation’s indigenous peoples.
National Aboriginal Day 2013 - Canada
In celebration of National Aboriginal Day, June 21, I am sharing some of books by aboriginal authors that I have enjoyed. Included are board books for the youngest, children's stories, a graphic novel, and more. Cradle Me by Debbie Slier Him Standing by Richard Wagamese Baseball Bats for Christmas by Michael Arvaarluk Kusegak The Life of Helen Betty Osborne by David Alexander Robertson and Madison Blackstone Blueberry Rapids by Rene Andre Meshake Extra Indians by Eric Gansworth…
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