Aboriginal Content
Explore these resources in order to enhance the First Nations’ content and perspectives within your class curriculum. They are cross-curricular and multi-literate for reading, viewing, listening, and interacting with.
Resource Topics:
Some Good Starting Points (below)
Language and Culture Resources
Current Events, Politics, and Issues Resources
Storytelling and Literature Resources
Residential Schools and Colonial Impacts
Some Good Starting Points:
First Nations Education Steering Committee (fnesc):
The fnesc website has primary sources and lesson plans for teaching about Residential schools, and for English and Math.
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8th Fire: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada, and the Way Forward on CBC:
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8th Fire is a series of informative, accessible, and engaging videos on various indigenous perspective issues, such as prejudice and stereotypes, reclaiming language and culture, land claims, and the “seventh generation” youth.
The website also has short videos, interviews, maps, and much more.
CBC News Aboriginal:
Updated current events related to First Nations people and concerns in Canada.
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First Voices and Royal BC Museum’s Living Languages:
First Voices has a search engine of Indigenous languages that allows you to look up translations, hear pronunciations, find languages based on region, and see their status.
It corresponds with the permanent Living Languages exhibit at the Royal BC Museum and their learning portal website, which are both interactive and draw crucial attention to the importance of language revitalization in First Nations’ culture.
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Project of Heart:
