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Aboriginal Resources

Social Studies and the Aboriginal Experience - Website Resources For Junior High School
Prepared by the CBE Aboriginal Education Team

Grade 7


Events leading to Confederation

1) Origins - History of Native Peoples in Canada
Includes: Native history preceded the arrival of Europeans 

2) Origins (Oral History) - Teit, Boas Digitization Project
Includes: Coyote Narratives with detailed notes

3) Origins (Oral History) - Blackfoot Stories and Legends
Includes: Nápi Narratives

4) The Fur Trade - Hudson's Bay Company Archive
Includes: Timelines, Stories & Personalities

5) The Northwest Resistance - Overview
Includes: Lesson Plans & Resources

6) The Northwest Resistance - Poundmaker & Big Bear
Includes: Notes, Maps & Bibilography

7) Indian Act
Includes: Indian Act Details, Related Regulations and Documents

8) Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Includes: Links to full document by chapter

9) Treaties - Overview
Includes:Historical/Contemporary Information, Images, Maps and Resources

10) Louis Riel & the Métis:
http://www.metisresourcecentre.mb.ca/
Includes: History, Fast Facts and Biographies
http://www.turtle-island.com/metis.html
Includes: Historical Relations, Assimilation and Land Claims

Challenges of co-existing among peoples 

11) The Struggle over Land - Sacred Land Film Project
Includes:Video and links

12) The Struggle of Recognition (Aboriginal Self-Government)
Includes: Background & Process

COMPARE & CONTRAST SOCIAL & ECONOMIC STRUCTURES

Social structures

13) Coastal Social Stucture - Haida Spirits of the Sea

14) Interior Social Structure - Secwepemc or Shuswap pre contact culture.

15) Plains Social Structure - The Blackfoot

16) Arctic (Below Tree line) Social  Structure - The Dogrib Tea Dance

17) Arctic (Above the Tree line) Social Stucture - History of the Inuit

18) Woodland/Shield - Iroquois Confederacy

 

Economic Structures

19) Coastal Economic Structures - Gifting and Feasting in the Northwest Coast Potlatch

20) Interior Economic Structures - After the Salmon Run

21) Plains Economic Structures - Traditional & Contemporary Culture

22) Arctic (Below Tree line) Economic Structures - The Dane-zaa Moose Hunt

23) Arctic (Above the Tree line) Economic Structures - High Arctic Economy

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Grade 8

HISTORICAL WORLDVIEWS EXAMINED

24) Aztec Civilization
Includes: Life & Times, the Aztec Empire, Time Lines and Teacher Guides

25) The Struggle over Land (Sacred Land Film Project – US Based)
Includes: Video, Diverse Viewpoints

26) Dene / Cree Elderspeak

27) Canada’s Polar Life

29) The Respect for Bill Reid

30) Aboriginal News

Grade 9

CANADA: OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES

Opportunities

31) Opportunities (Self Determination)
Includes: Video & Links

32) Opportunities - Profile: Who is Jordin Tootoo?
Includes:Video & Links

33) Opportunities - Urban Aboriginal People
Includes:Question, Activities & Resources

34) Opportunities - On the Nunavut Campaign Trail
Includes: Video, Links & Activities

35) Opportunities - Aboriginal Economic Development Success Story

Challenges

36) Challenges (The Struggle over Resources) - After the Salmon Run
Includes: Video, Links & Activities

37) Challenges (The Struggle over Land & Resources) -The Mackenzie Valley pipeline
Includes:Video, Links & Activities

38) Challenges (The Struggle over Land) - The Oka Crisis
Includes:Video, Links & Activities

39) Challenges (Education) - A Lost Heritage: Canada's Residential Schools
Includes:Video, Links & Activities

40) Challenges (The Struggle of Aboriginal Women) - Aboriginal Women
Includes:Question, Activities & Resources

 

Websites

Alberta Education - Learning Resource Centre
Nelson Education
Oxford University Press
Pearson Publishing

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Atlases - Globes - Wall Maps

Nystrom
Rand McNally
Maptown
Oxford Publishing

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