Aboriginal Curriculum
How to begin teaching Aboriginal Curriculum:
-form community, visit friendship centre and build trust
-spend time with local Aboriginal community
-explore Aboriginal text
Recommended Reading List:
A reconciliation reading list: 15 must-read books
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Up G host River by Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew
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Wenjack by Joseph Boyden
Secret Path by Gord Downie & Jeff Lemire
The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson, illustrated by Kelly Mellings
The Education o f Augie Merasty by David Carpenter and Augie Merasty
The Break by Katherena Vermette
Th e Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back by Leanne Simpson
In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation edited by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
A reconciliation reading list for young readers
YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
Dear Canada: These Are My W ords by Ruby Slipperjack
In Search of April Ra intree by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier
Good for Nothing by Michel Noël, translated by Shelley Tanaka
Su gar Falls by David Alexander Robertson, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson
MIDDLE-GRADE BOOKS
No Time to Say Goodbye by Sylvia Olsen with Rita Morris and Ann Sam
Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton,
illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes
My Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling
We Feel Good Out Here by Julie-Ann André and Mindy Willett
PICTURE BOOKS
Missing Nimâmâ by Melanie Florence, illustrated by François Thisdale
I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis & Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland
Shin-chi’s Canoe by Nicola Campbell, illustrated by Kim LaFave
Kookum’s Red Shoes by Peter Eyvindson, illustrated by Sheldon Dawson
Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education By Sheila Cote-Meek In Colonized Classrooms, Sheila Cote-Meek discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and experiencing colonial violence on a daily basis. Basing her analysis on interviews with Aboriginal students, teachers and Elders, Cote-Meek deftly illustrates how colonization and its violence are not a distant experience, but one that is being negotiated every day in universities and colleges across Canada.
Films
8th Fire CBC
Smoke Signals
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Resources:
UBC Museum of Anthropology
Strong Nations - an Aboriginal book store that caters to teachers
First People's Principles of Learning (poster)
Circle of Courage
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