Their Voices Will Guide Us is an educational and outreach initiative of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls intended to facilitate critical thinking, purposeful reflection, and dialogue around the perceptions and lived realities of Indigenous women and girls, including members of 2SLGBTQQIA communities. This is a good learning resources for Red Dress Day.
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Jan. 4 is National Ribbon Skirt Day. A day that provides an opportunity for everyone to learn more about and celebrate Indigenous cultures, traditions, histories, and contributions to Canada.
National Ribbon Skirt Day Act
Today is National Ribbon Skirt Day! Here’s how it came to be (From CBC Kids)
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Be introduced (or re-introduced) to the work of coastal visionaries who knowledge-keepers, artists, business people, thought leaders and community pillars based primarily on Coast Salish territories.
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The Government of Alberta shares Walking Together: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum. Symbolism and Traditions Ceremonies looks at Indigenous practices to maintain harmony and balance between humankind and the rest of creation.
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Learn what the term settler means, and a brief history of colonialism in this guide for teachers, Imagining a Better Future: An Introduction to Teaching and Learning about Settler Colonialism in Canada
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Information and resources to support bringing Truth and Reconciliation to the classroom. Concentus Citizenship Education created resources to support teachers and school staffs who are ready to move forward and implement their plan of action to promote healing and reconciliation in their classrooms and learning communities.
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nēhiyawētān kīkināhk / Speaking Cree in the Home is a hands-on guide for parents and caregivers to develop best practices in revitalizing and teaching Cree to young children. Belinda Daniels and Andrea Custer provide an introductory text to help families immerse themselves, their children, and their homes in nēhiyawēwin—the Cree language.
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StoryMap by Canadian Geographic Education is designed as a resource for teachers to introduce and to understand treaties and agreements between Indigenous Peoples, the Crown, the federal government, as well as provinces and territories. The journey starts in what is now called upstate New York, then moves to the eastern coast of Canada before going west, and final north. Topics covered include Pre-Confederation Treaties, Numbered Treaties, Métis scrip, and Inuit land claims.
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#ExploreCan was a program created by Canadian Geography Education with a year of virtual events and learning resources exploring Canada, science, environmental stewardship largely focused on truth and reconciliation.
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The Water Is Life learning package is a series of four lessons plans that draw on on land-based learning, centered on women’s teachings about, for, and from Mother Earth, with a specific focus on water and its connection to land and the Indigenous Peoples living on Turtle Island.
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The First Nations Education Steering Committee created resources to support teachers in including Indigenous teachings and perspectives in courses – like the Math First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide.
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For ten years, the Cree Literacy Network has been promoting the work of lifelong language warriors. They use their blog to honour and support the commitment they share to retain, reclaim, revitalize and restore the language that is a birthright for themselves and their communities.
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Learn about the history and culture of Indigenous communities in Canada, the history of residential schools, and treaties around the country in Four Seasons of Reconciliation, a three-hour multimedia course delivered online by First Nations University of Canada.
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Janell Stick teaches Cree. She shared her syllabic chart teaching video with the Cree Literacy Network, which shows the characters and sounds together. Find more of Janell’s teaching presentations via FaceBook on her page, nêhiyâwêwin for the Soul, or on YouTube as Cree for the Soul.
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Generation Power is an Indigenous youth clean energy and career training program. It was developed by and for Indigenous youth, by engaging a holistic, strength-based approach positioning Indigenous leadership as essential to advancing a more sustainable and equitable energy future.
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Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre sees how racism occurs at all levels of society and that anti-racism is an active way of seeing and being in the world, in order to transform it. To this end the ACLRC offers anti-racism training and resources through a learning toolkit with Calgary Anti-Racism Education
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Residential Schools and Reconciliation is a learning portal by the Royal BC Museum that features readings, videos, teacher resources, and the opportunity to view historical images and objects about residential schools.
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Settlers Take Action is a website aimed at non-Indigenous folk living in Canada, with the understanding that we are all responsible for our personal role in reconciliation. The website gives step-by-step actions to take and lists resources to support your reconciliation journey.
Read MoreAboriginal Worldviews and Education is a course offered free online by the University of Toronto. It will explore indigenous ways of knowing and how they can benefit all students.
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Learn about Indigenous culture and history in this online training by Bear Standing tall and Associates designed for business. The training works towards building meaningful and respectful relationship with Indigenous peoples.
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Make sure everyone in your business or organization has knowledge on the fundamentals of diversity and inclusion, managing bias in hiring, and unconscious bias through this workplace training from the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion.
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The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is the most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of indigenous peoples. It establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world and it elaborates on existing human rights standards and fundamental freedoms as they apply to the specific situation of indigenous peoples.
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The File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council has a series of Indigenous language learning videos on their YouTube page. Choose from Saulteaux, Cree, nêhiyawêwin, Dakhóta lá, Anishinaabemowin, Nakon’i’a, and Nakoda
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The Métis: A Visual History is a stunning and visually commanding resource covering over three hundred years of history and culture starting with the birth of the Métis Nation.
Read MoreWatch, the Call for Equitable Indigenous Healthcare in Canada: Nation to Nation Collaboration. The film includes interviews with Indigenous traditional Knowledge Keeper Rose Richardson and her husband, healthcare patient Mayor Ric Richardson, as well as Director of Surgical Oncology at the University of Saskatchewan Dr. Gary Groot.
Read MoreWatch these videos created by Gabriel Dumont Local 11 to learn more about the culture and history of the Métis:
Lii Vyeu Moond Kiiwaywuk Sur La Tayr | Youth and Elders, Learning Together on the Land
Read MoreLearn about Aboriginal Identity and Terminology from the UBC Indigenous foundations website
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In a series of Cree Teachings videos, Sylvia McAdam, shares information about protocol and smudging, women’s teachings and mossbags, Treaties, the Pipe laws and more.
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Canada’s History has lesson plans, including this one for youth in Grade 7, 8, 9, Gibaajimominaan: Our Stories. This lesson has students learn from residential school Survivors and consider what they can do to support the Survivors and their families.
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The University of Regina is offering Cree: Language of the Plains through open source resources. Learn at your own pace through workbooks and downloadable videos
Read MoreIndigenous Canada is a 12-lesson online course that explores, from an Indigenous perspective, key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Topics include the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions.
Read MoreCheck out an episode of Think Indigenous Online Education’s Lunchtime Decolonization, with a variety of Indigenous experts. The videos are recorded live on their Facebook page.
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Idle No More asks people to join in a peaceful revolution, to honour Indigenous sovereignty, and to protect the land and water
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Show up to support racial justice by being educated. These links can help:
Systemic racism explained – an animated video on Facebook from the team at Now This
How White People Can Hold Each Other Accountable to Stop Institutional Racism – an article in Teen Vogue
Racism 101: Understanding Race and Racism – an article that explains what racism is, how it operates, and what we can do to end it.
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The Parent Toolkit presents a How To on Talking to Kids about Race and Racism. As they say, there’s no question, talking about race can be sensitive, and yes, even a bit messy.
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2 Crees in a Pod, unapologetically creates space for Indigenous resurgence. Their intention is to disrupt western colonial systems and honour Indigenous helping practices.
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Chris Hsiung, the producer and director behind Elder in the Making, also created Fox Chaser, which is now available on CBC Gem.
It’s a story that will take you into the harsh winters of northern Alberta where a young Cree trapper struggles to protect his childhood dream of living off the trapline. With encroaching industrial development and increasing family obligations, this may be his last chance for freedom in the bush.
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Learn about reconciliation happening in other places. Reconciliation Australia, promotes and facilitates respect, trust and positive relationships between the wider Australian community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Watch the NFB’s Stories Are in Our Bones
Filmmaker Janine Windolph takes her young sons fishing with their kokum, a residential school survivor who retains a deep knowledge and memory of the land. The act of reconnecting with their homeland is a cultural and familial healing journey for the boys, who are growing up in the city.
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Historica Canada created a podcast series about the history of residential schools in Canada. The Residential Schools podcast aims to commemorate the history and legacy of residential schools, and honour the stories of Survivors, families, and communities.
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Siha Tooskin Knows is a series children’s books reinforcing the importance of Indigenous culture, including Siha Tooskin Knows the Love of the Dance on why powwows are so important.
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Increasing libraries are getting onboard with Reconciliation – offering up activities, reading spaces and books in their branches.
If you can’t make it in, many libraries have recommendations of reads to start (or continue) you on your Reconciliation Journey
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The US Department of Arts and Culture created a guide – Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgement.
It calls on individuals and organizations to open events and gatherings with land acknowledgements and provides suggestions on how, and why, to do it.
Omniglot is an online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages. Learn about the history of Indigenous languages and use its translation tools.
Cree Literacy Network promotes literacy in Cree language and culture.
Read MoreMaskwacis Cree, developed by Samson Cree Nation, it lets you explore 20 different categories of words, play word games and take quizzes. For Apple devices
Maskosis Goes to School, developed by Samson Cree Nation, it will teach you about pow wows, traditional Cree values, culture and basic language structure. For Apple and Android devices
Kobe Learn, developed by Keewaytinook Okimakanak Board of Education, it is a suite of apps available in Cree, Oji-Cree and Ojibway. For Apple and Android devices
Plains Cree Yorkton Tribal Council, developed by Yorkton Tribal Council, it teaches the Plains Cree Language, including categories such as greetings, weather, animals, anatomy and family. For Apple devices
Singuistics, developed by Pinnguaq Technology, it will teach traditional songs from Inuktitut, Gwich’in, Anishinaabemowin, Cree and Chipewyan languages. For Apple devices
FirstVoices, developed by First Peoples’ Heritage Language and Culture Council, it contains keyboard software for over 100 Indigenous languages, including every First Nations language in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. For Apple and Android devices
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The final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has two-volumes, calls for transformative legal and social changes, and delivers 231 individual Calls for Justice. (MMIW)
Read the entire report, or the Calls for Justice directed at governments, institutions, social service providers, industries and all Canadians.
Read MoreThe National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is the permanent home for all statements, documents, and other materials gathered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Learn more about their work.
The centre created this video to explain their work keeping the issues of Truth and Reconciliation alive.
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The Montreal Urban Aboriginal Network launched the Indigenous Ally toolkit in English and in French. Being an ally is about creating safe spaces by educating others on the realities and histories of marginalized people. The toolkit provides suggested steps and self-reflections for people who want to be an ally.
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THE GATHERING Educators from North West Community College/University of Regina Community-Based Masters Program have compiled First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI) teaching resources that can be adapted for all students. While the website is focused on teachers, anyone starting their Reconciliation journey will find this to be a useful tool!
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Use the Indigenous Peoples Atlas to learn about Métis history, identity and culture. This tremendous online resource has extensive sections on trading, oral tradition and languages, historical milestones, culture and contemporary experience.
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