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Celebrate National Indigenous History Month
​with the ORC!


TeachingBooks.net

Did you miss the Resources for Diverse & Award-Winning Titles: First Nations webinar from TeachingBooks.net? No fear! You can watch the recording here: http://teachingbooks.adobeconnect.com/pf7xvac7hx72/

After watching, don't forget to download your Certificate of Attendance here: https://www.teachingbooks.net/webinars/b4oo3

And check out other content in TeachingBooks.net to help you celebrate National Indigenous History Month!
  • Discover the beauty of the traditional Round Dance in this video book reading of The Drum Calls Softly by David Bouchard.
  •   Listen to this interview with Cherie Dimaline as she shares her inspiration for the book, The Marrow Thieves.
  •   Deepen understanding of Canada’s relationship with its Indigenous people while listening to Monique Gray Smith’s Interview about Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation.
  •   Learn about truth and healing from Patti Laboucane-Benson in her book, The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel.
          
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Canada In Context

First Nations Topic Page: On this page, you will find reference articles about the treatment of First Nations people, 219 biographies, over 80 images and audio files, primary source documents, critical essays, other vetted websites, and more.

First Nations Literature Topic Page: This page includes reference articles about contemporary First Nations authors and mythology, excerpts from primary source documents, magazine articles, biographies, and more.

Métis Topic Page: On this page, you'll find biographies of Louis Riel and Jim Sinclair, various images and essays, and more.

Inuit Topic Page: This page includes an audio interview of Inuit singer Elisapie, a biography of Inuit artist Kenojuak (Ashevak), reference articles, images, and more.

The Canadian Encyclopedia

Indigenous Peoples Collection: This collection includes articles about Indigenous artists like Annie Pootoogook and Corrine Hunt, information about Indigenous langues and territory in Canada, articles about the Dene Games, and Timelines. 

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Canada: This article includes information about 2 Spirits and LGBTQ2S people in Canada.

30 Indigenous Leaders: This article includes a list of 30 Indigenous Leaders in Canada
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Articles about Indigenous authors and artists like: Alexander Thomas, Maria Campbell, Richard Wagamese, Olive Dickason, and more. 

Curriculum Video on Demand
This episode of The Green Interview features John Borrows, one of Canada’s most prolific and celebrated legal scholars and a professor of law at the University of Minnesota. Borrows, who is Anishinaabe and a member of the Cape Croker First Nation in Ontario's Bruce Peninsula, has written and spoken widely on aboriginal legal rights and traditions, treaties and land claims, and religion and the law. He points out that the treaties are two-way agreements that affect the rights of both indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians – and they were meant to guide the relationships between the two groups forever. They granted rights to people on both sides, but they imposed obligations too. And those obligations and rights can help us live peacefully with each other and with nature. In this Green Interview, Borrows offers a bracing vision of what law really is, where it finds its roots and its authority, and how aboriginal law fits into the Canadian legal fabric
Stone carvings discovered in the Canadian Arctic reveal a 3000-year-old Inuit culture with a strong spiritual connection to nature. Though the meaning of carvings is not known, the Inuit interpret them through the lens of shamanism.

Global Issues In Context

Indigenous Peoples' Rights Topic Page: This topic page includes articles about Indigenous Peoples and tradition resource rights, news articles about the pipeline and Indigenous Peoples rights, viewpoints, images, and more.

Gord Downie's The Secret Path

The film and information about Chanie Wenjack, the young boy who died trying to escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School.

Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada

Truth and Reconciliation

First Nations


Inuit

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