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Good morning.
Today’s agenda:
1. Continue First Nations lecture
2. Homework Read “Totem” for Wednesday. I emailed
this to you earlier today.
Sentence combining “Sheet 4”. I emailed this to you earlier today.
This is the final week for the course.
* Wednesday – Discuss “Totem”
Sentence combining Sheet #4
* Thursday – Final test- Write about “Totem” with “ “
* Friday- There will be no class for you on Friday. I will be doing
final marks. Email me after noon on Friday, and I will email you back your final mark.
Summer school begins Thursday, July 2.
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Archaeological theories about origins of First Nations
archeology – archeo “old” ology “study”
• hominids – Neanderthal, Australopithicus, Cro Magnum
• homo sapiens- Man sapien – “wise” , about 100 000- 250 000 yrs
• migration – humans or animal moving or travelling
Birds migrate south every winter.
• immigration- move to a new country, with a passport
• emigrate – leave a country to go to a new country for good
“Yuko emigrated from Japan. She immigrated to Canada.”
nomadic people – always on the move
• 200 000 years ago, Homo Sapiens in Africa
• 60 000 years ago, humans leave Africa
50 000 years ago reach Australia
• Second wave
35 000 years ago reach Middle East and Central Asia
• 40 000 years ago into Europe
• 25 000 years ago- Ice Age, ice bridge between Russia and Alaska
• 15 000 years ago humans cross The Bering Strait into North America
• Show video “Map Shows How Humans Migrated Across the Globe” (2m30s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdT6QcSbQ0&list=RDCJdT6QcSbQ0&start_radio=1
Explore website, LCD http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_groups_origins.html
talk about land bridge
MAYBE VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M43TYldfqzc (4m-13m)
• Atlantic migration theory
Talk about
• First Nations reactions to these scientific theories
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-indigenous-communities-react-to-the-resurfacing-of-two-migration-theories-1.4479632
Put like on Blog
Listen to audio (9m) EXCELLENT
Describe and summarize controversies, competing theories for students
• Another article about Salutrian/Ice Bridge debate
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ancient-toddler-s-remains-re-ignite-native-origins-debate-1.2534423
CONTACT – 1500s First European came to North America
• cooperation between settlers and First Nations- settlers dying of scurvy, lack of Vitamin C
long-standing problem for sailors
limey, pine needle tea
• Work through timeline
https://aboriginalconnections.wordpress.com/teacher-resources/bc-first-nations-historical-timeline/
FLESH OUT Treatment of FN- blanket ceremony information
More Europeans came to North America
• Government decision to put First Nations on Reservations, Reserves
all over Canada
Even today, Reservations – big problems such as clean water, youth suicide 3X national rate, poverty, despair, drug and alcohol abuse
• Residential School system
Talk about
• Between the 1860s and 1996 (23 years ago) more than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children were required to attend Indian Residential Schools, institutions operated by religious organizations funded by the Federal Government.
• The Canadian government removed First Nation children from their families and communities and placed them in these institutions.
• Many children were inadequately fed, clothed and housed, and many were abused, physically, emotionally, and sexually. Their languages and cultural practices were prohibited.
TEACHERRESOURCES
http://www.fnesc.ca/learningfirstpeoples/
https://www.ece.gov.nt.ca/files/Early-Childhood/ns_-_residential_schools_resource_-_second_edition.pdf
http://www.fnesc.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PUB-LFP-IRSR-11-12-Pt1-2015-07-WEB.pdf
http://www.fnesc.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PUB-LFP-IRSR11-12-DE-Pt2-2015-07-WEB.pdf
http://www.fnesc.ca/grade-11-12-indian-residential-schools-and-reconciliation/
• VIDEO “Where Are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools”
https://vimeo.com/27172950 (25m)
* Excellent website http://wherearethechildren.ca/en/
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:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/national-centre-truth-reconciliation-winnipeg-1.3301305
• EXPLORE Website:
http://umanitoba.ca/nctr/
• http://wherearethechildren.ca/en
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn6jbkPgTzM
• Distribute “ConnieWalkerQuestions”, p.c.
• LISTEN (13m56s)
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/backstory/connie-walker-and-the-first-hand-legacy-of-residential-schools-1.3359153
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)
https://soundcloud.com/cbc-radio-one/i-hate-you-residential-school
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
https://www.downiewenjack.ca/
• “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
https://natalieast.com/miss-universe-canadas-national-costume-cultural-appropriation/
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
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/youth-incarcerated-indigenous-half-1.4720019
“ForthisArcticstudent”, p.c. “JasmineKegel”pic
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/nowornever/out-with-the-old-1.4470167/indigenous-releasing-ceremony-treats-trauma-and-mental-health-issues-1.4475378
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-january-7-2018-1.4474395/meet-the-brave-women-patrolling-regina-s-toughest-neighbourhood-1.4474407
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/haida-gwaii-indigenous-language-podcast-1.5185671
• “My Moccasins Have Not Walked” work and student poem
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