Wednesday, 25 September 2019

EF56 First Nations Lecture 4

1. Choose one of the stories.
2. Watch it or read it.
http://wherearethechildren.ca/en/stories/

serious trouble that you can't forget about - trauma
physical trauma
psychological trauma

sobriety - sober, no alcohol or drugs

My Little Residential School Suitcase
BRAINSTORMING VOCAB
worry
pain
sadness
suffering
loneliness
stressful
pressure
embarassed
frustrated
overwhelmed
confused
angry
scared
heavy

love
forgive
forget
release
feeling gone
recover
healing
hopeful
share
light
get better
beauty
peace
contentment





·      VIDEO “Where Are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools”


GO OVER THIS WEBSITE ON LCD
·      http://www.anishinabek.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/An-Overview-of-the-IRS-System-Booklet.pdf

·      Introduction to Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Residential Schools
reconcile – to become friends again, to rebuild a broken relationship
 modeled after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Apartheid – separation of white and black, from 1948

When the South African government was starting up the Apartheid system in the 1940s, they came to Canada to see the Residential School system

·      National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
Opening ceremony:

·      EXPLORE Website:

Explore together
Walk through Timeline

Choose one of the stories. Listen or read the transcript, make notes.

Indian Horse Ch 11-12? photocopy and read together



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LOTS OF RESOURCES
SURVIVOR TESTIMONY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjrZpCJtNYk

·      Distribute “ConnieWalkerQuestions”, p.c.

·      LISTEN (13m56s)
OR
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2680244159/
OR
“ConnieWalker.mp3”

Students listen and make notes

Afterward, get into small groups and compare notes.
Discuss as a class.                                    

·      LISTEN to poem “MONSTER”, p.c. (3m,16s)
OR
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/apr-3-2014-1.2908353/monster-by-poet-dennis-saddleman-i-hate-you-residential-school-i-hate-you-1.2908356


·      Highlights from TRC:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/12/15/highlights-from-the-report-of-the-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-report_n_8812426.html

·      “MyLittleResidentialSchoolSuitcase”, p.c.
Read aloud, discuss

·      Explain Gord Downey
The Sacred Path


·      “colonialism”, p.c.


·      “’Totem’ Module”

·      DON’T TEACH Rita Joe “I Lost My Talk”


·      “Two-Spirit” “Chrytos”

“Unentitled” from here:
http://www.sfu.ca/lovemotherearth/02poetry/tea_and_bannock.pdf


·      Appropriation of First Nations culture
·      Explain meaning of ‘cultural appropriation’
Gucci turban

·      Talk about 2015 Miss Canada dress
Show pics “Miss Canada 1,2”

·      Other examples of a appropriation of First Nations culture- music festivals
Show pics “Headdress1,2,3” “Costume1”

Show video “Headdress- A filmmaker recreates her great-grandfather’s portrait” (5m,43s)

·      http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-women-searches-for-stolen-regalia-prince-george-1.4692057



The future of FN



“ForthisArcticstudent”, p.c. “JasmineKegel”pic





“My Moccasins Have Not Walked” work and student po

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