Grades 8/9 to Grades 12/13
Ce projet consiste à un spectacle d’artiste autochtones et québécois. Les membres du groupes tentent de faire valoir l’importance de la langue innue par une représentation musicale à travers le Québec. Cette initiative souhaite entre autre créer la réconciliation entre les Premières Nations et le Québec. This story is not available in English. Please […]
Ce projet consiste à un spectacle d’artiste autochtones et québécois. Les membres du groupes tentent de faire valoir l’importance de la langue innue par une représentation musicale à travers le Québec. Cette initiative souhaite entre autre créer la réconciliation entre les Premières Nations et le Québec.
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Catherine Davis discusses the challenges of including Indigenous education initiatives in the public education system.
Catherine Davis shares her perspectives developed through her work with the Alderville First Nation Student Services. Student Services provides mental health support, education, and referral services to elementary and secondary students of Alderville First Nation and their families. Their services include prevention and life promotions programs delivered to children, youth and parents, as well as, case management and coordination of the assessment and consultation processes. She discusses some of the “costs” these initiatives involve (like sacrificing the learning of Indigenous languages to prioritize increasing graduation rates) and talks about the challenges of trying to build a system in which Indigenous communities can have both.
The Math Catcher Outreach program aims to promote mathematics and scholarship in general by encouraging elementary and high school students to recognize how math is used in everyday life and how it forms the basis for many of our daily decisions and life-long choices. The storytelling, pictures, models, problem solving, and hands-on activities encourage young […]
The Math Catcher Outreach program aims to promote mathematics and scholarship in general by encouraging elementary and high school students to recognize how math is used in everyday life and how it forms the basis for many of our daily decisions and life-long choices. The storytelling, pictures, models, problem solving, and hands-on activities encourage young people to enjoy math and help dispel myths that math is boring and abstract. Math Catcher has produced animated films in several First Nations languages (Blackfoot, Cree, Squamish, Heiltsuk, Nisga’a, Sliammon, Halq’em ́eylem, Hul’q’umi’num’, and Huu-ay- aht) as well as bilingual picture books in Blackfoot/English, Cree/English, Squamish/English, Nisga’a/English, and Sliammon/English. For more information: http://www.sfu.ca/mathcatcher.html
Kelsey Jaggard interviews Jeremy Audette, Principal at Thomas Fiddler Memorial High School in Sandy Lake, Ontario. The High School offers formal education up to grade 10 and caters to learners ages 12-21. The school is working to incorporate land-based opportunities to connect youth to traditional knowledge and create a space where they are engaged in […]
Kelsey Jaggard interviews Jeremy Audette, Principal at Thomas Fiddler Memorial High School in Sandy Lake, Ontario. The High School offers formal education up to grade 10 and caters to learners ages 12-21. The school is working to incorporate land-based opportunities to connect youth to traditional knowledge and create a space where they are engaged in their own learning.
A Nakota language initiative that seeks to revitalize and re-awaken the Nakota language on White Bear First Nation.
Sarah and Shayna McArthur of White Bear First Nation began the group, Mato Ska Nakona bi Linguistics Inc. to work with community members in order to revitalize and restore the Nakota language. By using language acquisition methods like Total Physical Response and Native American Hand Signs, the McArthur’s hope to increase the number of Nakota language speakers in their community. By learning Nakota people can reconnect with their spirituality and traditional ceremonies in order to heal from past trauma. This initiative is helping Nakota community members, of all ages, to be proud of their identity and history. The Nakota people, now more than ever, must be committed to learning their language and reconnecting with their identity – the Mato Ska Nakona bi Linguistics Inc. is able to support this work.
Education that prepares students to lead successful, productive and healthy lives while enhancing and celebrating their identity and pride through language and culture programs and daily education.
The Campbell River School District and the Aboriginal education Advisory Council are committed to ensuring that Aboriginal students receive a quality education. The District provides educational services to a diverse multicultural population. The support from Aboriginal Education is intended to enhance the experience of Aboriginal students. This support is intended to be in class, in school support that can benefit not only Aboriginal students but all students. The Campbell River School District and the Aboriginal education Advisory Council are committed to ensuring that Aboriginal students receive a quality education. One that prepares them to lead successful, productive and healthy lives while enhancing and celebrating their identity and pride through language and culture programs and daily education.
The Bakuemgyala Language Group is a community based group working collectively to revitalize the Kwakwala/Likwala language.
The Bakuemgyala Language Group has been undertaking substantial updating of its community-based program and conducting extensive discussions on the approach with key stakeholders such as local Elders, mentees and youth. The community-based program has been developed recognizing that languages are in crisis and that urgent action is required to address the loss of language in our families, homes and communities. Thus, to advocate the preservation of Kwakwala/Likwala language, culture, traditional arts and history. Ultimately, the programs goal is to increase the number of Kwakwala/Likwala language speakers.
Ce projet a pour objectif d’inciter les jeunes décrocheurs à retourner à l’école afin qu’ils terminent leurs cours de base. Puis, ces derniers participeront à un stage qui les mènera sur le marché du travail. Le programme s’adresse aux jeunes âgés de 15 à 21 ans. This story is not available in English. Please select […]
Ce projet a pour objectif d’inciter les jeunes décrocheurs à retourner à l’école afin qu’ils terminent leurs cours de base. Puis, ces derniers participeront à un stage qui les mènera sur le marché du travail. Le programme s’adresse aux jeunes âgés de 15 à 21 ans.
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Philip Brass advocates that land-based activities are memorable experiences that can plant a seed to propagate relationships with the landscape and the ecosystem.
In 2014, Philip Brass began to work with his band, Peepeekisis Cree Nation, as the Community Wellness Coordinator at the Health Centre. His goal at the time was to reach out and connect with youth during a time of violence, vandalism, and gang activity. He offered to go hunting with some of the youth as a way to connect with those that were tough to reach, and eventually he introduced them to ceremony. Getting the youth involved in traditional values and practices resulted in a positive ripple effect throughout the community. His work with the youth continued with the File Hills Police Service and then working within the schools on-reserve and off-reserve, in nearby towns, within Prairie Valley School Division and Treaty 4 Education Alliance. Some land-based activities Brass has led with youth include: fishing, filleting workshops, hunting big game, hunting small game, talking circles, sweats, and attending ceremonies. He has been a valuable resource for teachers that are having difficulty navigating issues on reconciliation, the history of colonialism, and on-going Indigenous struggles within Saskatchewan and Canada. Philip has witnessed how the land can be a powerful tool for learning, engaging, and shifting negative behavioural patterns in youth. Philip infers that for Indigenous people to reconnect with their languages, land-based activities are essential because languages are emergent from those activities and gives language relevance.
Meeka is a well-known teacher of education, healing, and Inuit culture. She started teaching children in 1971, and moved onto adult education at Nunavut Arctic College for 18 years. Meeka believes that elder knowledge from experience is necessary have a foundation for living an Inuit life as our ancestor did. She hopes that healing and education from Inuit go a long way.
Meeka is a well-known teacher of education, healing, and Inuit culture. She started teaching children in 1971, and moved onto adult education at Nunavut Arctic College for 18 years. Meeka is also a member of various organizations that focus on Inuktitut and Inuit culture. Meeka believes that elder knowledge from experience is necessary have a foundation for living an Inuit life as our ancestor did. She hopes that healing and education from Inuit go a long way. Some of her work can be found online as Inuit Wellness and Healing videos – Meeka Manuals. The manuals she has developed are applicable to adults, families and education.
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