EF3/4 First Nations 1

·        Focus of BC new curriculum- First Nations

First Nations ways of knowing, culture, history in Canada

·        My school experiences- none of the history, social studies, literature, English 12

First People’s English 12

·        science focused on First Nations

The focus was on Europeans, settlers, White men in Canada

·        male-centred, Euro-centred

·        lots of First Nations kids in my school, segregated

·        seemed normal

racism towards First Nations people “Indians”

dismissive, belittling, negative

·        Tell this story

·        policy at my university – have to finish your degree in seven years

student/ professor –led initiative to change it to 10 yrs

·        racism against First Nations – BCTF AGM story

700 teachers

“equity-seeking groups” wanted representation

·        First Contact Canada

http://aptn.ca/firstcontact/

First Contact of Europeans with First Nations

·        First Nations -Who they are?

·        Small groups

“What do you know about First Nations people in Canada?”

Generate ideas on LCD

·        First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples constitute Indigenous peoples in Canada, also called First Peoples. First Nations came into common usage in the 1980s to replace the term Indians

·        Aboriginal

·        First Nations- Indigenous people in the South (below Arctic Circle). Half of all First Nations bands are in Ontario and BC.

·        Inuit are the Indigenous people who live in the North. Used to be called ‘Eskimo’- disparaging term from French Esquimaux, from Montagnais ayas̆kimew ‘person who laces a snowshoe’. Montagnais, or Innu, are the Indigenous inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of the northeastern portion of the present-day province of Quebec and some eastern portions of Labrador.

Discredited etymology ‘raw fish eater’

Website: https://www.itk.ca/about-canadian-inuit/#nunangat

Show map: “Inuit Map”

·        Metis a person of mixed Indigenous and Euro-American ancestry, in particular one of a group of such people who in the 19th century constituted the so-called Metis nation in the areas around the Red and Saskatchewan rivers. Metis comes from the French word ‘métis’, which means ‘mixed’.

·        Talk about origin of the word ‘Indian’ due to geographical misunderstanding

Cuba, - West Indies

“Red Indian” – don’t use that name anymore

“East Indian” – don’t use that name anymore

·        Where did they come from?

·        First Nations creation myths/ stories

myth – legend, fiction, story

Greek myths -

·        Read “The Beginning of the HaidiGwaii World” on LCD

·        Talk about Raven

- prominent role in the mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, including the Tsimishians, Haidas, Heiltsuks, Tlingits, Kwakwaka'wakw, Coast Salish, Koyukons, and Inuit. The raven in these indigenous peoples' mythology is the Creator of the world, but it is also considered a trickster god.

-two different raven characters:

-the creator raven, responsible for bringing the world into being and who is sometimes considered to be the individual who brought light to the darkness

-the childish raven, always selfish, sly, conniving, and hungry

·        Show pictures “Raven1” “Raven2” “Raven and the First Men”

“Spirit of Haida Gwaii”