BC First Nations Land, Title, and Governance Teacher Resource Guide
Overview of the Unit: In the Intermediate grades students begin to link the consequences of past actions with present day circumstances. Specifically, they build understandings of the impacts of colonialism. In this unit the focus is on understanding traditional laws and government systems, and the impacts on them by colonialism and Euro-Canadian settlement. The topics can be made part of a larger examination of colonization.
- Curriculum Resources: First Nations Governance Over Time (Grade 4-6)
- Kit: First Nations Governance Over Time: Grade 4-6 (available in the Aboriginal Resource Library)
Map of Indigenous Communities Across BC:
- Map of Aboriginal communities in BC – English
- Map of Aboriginal Communities by Territory
- Book: Stó:lo Historical Atlas – an amazing historical document that has numerous maps of the Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows
- Coast Salish Territory in the Post-Contact Era – Sq’ewlets: A Coast Salish Community in the Fraser Valley
- Manitoba Metis Communities and Geographical Place Names –This document, provides extensive details about the Metis communities throughout Manitoba prior to, and after they were displaced by the Canadian government.
- First Nations A-Z Listing. British Columbia Government website
Supplementary Resources:
- Lesson: Beaded Timeline – Connect with your Aboriginal Resource Teacher
- Lesson: Governance – Connect with your Aboriginal Resource Teacher
- Lesson: Understanding Terminology – First Nations, Metis, Inuit
- Kit: Residential Schools – Intermediate
- Website: Virtual Museum – Forgotten: The Metis Residential School Experience
- Website: Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture
- Video: The Elders are Watching – Roy Henry Vickers/David Bouchard
- Video: The Elders are Watching – Read Aloud
- Book: Culture and Diversity Protocols and Guiding Principles
- Website: Húyat Our Voices, Our Land – interactive website exploring the Heiltsuk territory
- Handout: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples for Indigenous Adolescents
- Article: “What Does Traditional Consensus Decision Making Mean?”