School - First Peoples

Teaching Treaties in the Classroom

Combine social studies lessons and create engaging art lessons based on the Metis story "The Giving Tree." More information and examples are on our site so click through! :)

This booklet is written by Spirit Bear as a youth-friendly guide to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) 94 Calls to Action. Between 1879 and 1996, the Government of Canada took First Nations, Métis, and Inuit kids away from their families and homes and put them in residential schools. At residential school, kids were not allowed to speak their language or

Full circle: First Nations, Métis, Inuit ways of knowing. (2012). OSSTF

Fall has arrived! Why not highlight it with an Aboriginal Art project? The Aboriginal people often paint kangaroos, snakes, lizards and lots of symbols. Our theme will be a Fall Leaf. This is a great way to work with warm and cool colours.This very complete project helps you to initiate your student...

When award-winning writer David Bouchard first saw the work of First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers, he was struck by Vickers' reverence for nature and his understanding of Canada's rugged West Coast. They collaborated on The Elders Are Watching, which-now in its fifth printing-has delighted more than 100,000 readers in four languages. The artwork in this new edition has been restored to match the vibrancy of the originals.Author - Roy Henry VickersFormat - HardcoverPublisher - Raincoast...

Make a button blanket peg doll to add to learning about Northwest Indigenous culture.

Leah Dorion Gallery 2007

This rich retelling of a traditional Metis story is centred on the memory of Moushoom, who describes discovering the "great giving tree" as a boy, along side his parents.