Shared Learning
Understanding The Past
Educational Reform
Assimilation
Creatures/Monsters
Education RELEVANT to Indigenous peoples
8 Inuit Societal Values

NBE3U6
4 R's Reflection

Relevance

The Revolution Has Begun
Christi Belcourt

Restoring traditional Indigenous
ways of teaching children

Developing Unique Gifts

Wisdom

Wisdom

7 Grandfather Teachings

7 Grandfather Teachings

Learning From Elders 
and the Land

Learning From Elders
and the Land

Culminating Discussion Circle

Protecting the land

Restoring Mother Earth

Restoring Mother Earth

Truth and Reconciliation Speech
Justice Murray Sinclair

Teaching Indigenous children
Indigenous traditions, heroes, and stories

"We need to ensure that our young people are 
given a sense of validity, that they know where they come from...then they'll k

"We need to ensure that our young people are
given a sense of validity, that they know where they come from...then they'll know who they are" (M. Sinclair 11).

Answering analysis
Questions

Discussion with
Surrounding Peers

Understanding issues actually
relevant to Indigenous peoples

Reciprocity

Twisted Histories: Reconciliation
Kaniehtiio Horn

Significance of Reciprocity
To Reconciliation and Healing

Reciprocal Discussions

"One path to reconciliation is in small actions and building relationships between Indigenous peoples and Canadians" (Horn).

Discussion Circles

Discussion Circles

Giving Back to the
Indigenous Community

Standing Up Together

Standing Up Together

Class Listening/Discussion

Teaches the significance of
giving back, inspires my gratitude
towards Indigenous peoples

Realizing my privilege of knowledge
(reconciliACTION)

Dibenimiisowin
Niigonwedom James Sinclair

Continued lack of support
and recognition of Indigenous
knowledge in modern society

Self-Healing

"No apology, no words, and certainly
no time in parliament can
give healing" (N. J. Sinclair 25).

Canadian Federal Government Apology
Stephen Harper (on behalf of government)

Mainly words,
 little action

Mainly words,
little action

Answering analysis
Questions

Respect

Angry Inuk
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

Inuit Cultural Significance
of Seal Hunting

Hunting Tradition

Hunting Tradition

Acknowledging Inuit traditions
amidst colonialism

Group Discussion Circle

Revenge
Thomas Anguti Johnson

Class Analysis of
Themes/Messages

Honouring Inuit beliefs and
cultural values

The Nanarluk

The Nanarluk

Nightmares of The Americas: The Wendigo
Joseph and Gabriel Behill

Creating an inclusive environment
for Indigenous and ALL peoples

Land
Acknowledgement

Positionality

Mutual Respect

Class Listening/Discussion

Respecting First Nations territories
beliefs and cultural values

The Wendigo

The Wendigo

Indigenous Land

Indigenous Land

Teaches how to examine beliefs
from different perspectives with respect,
very applicable my to daily life

Responsibility

Sixties Scoop News Report
CBC News

Sixties Scoop Discussion
Post + Response

Understanding impacts and
consequences of the Sixties Scoop
on Indigenous families

Cultural Genocide

Cultural Genocide

Residential Schools

Systemic Abuse

Systemic Abuse

Loss of
Ancestral Connection

Family Separation

Family Separation

Trick Or Treaty
Alanis Obamsawin

Grasping the colonialist manipulations
within land Treaties of Turtle
Island (e.g. Williams Treaty)

Manipulative
Translations

Invalidating Oral
Histories and
Treaties

Committing to change and reconciliACTION

Realizing personal complicities
and benefits

Trick or Treaty
Questions

Personal Land
Acknowledgement

Realizing my personal benefit from
colonialism and the taking of
Indigenous territories

LEGEND

Main Connection

Text/Author

4 R's

Examples/Details

How I learned

Personal
Significance

Evidence/Quotation

Richard Tong