We
will get started at 8:30.
Cameras
on. Mics muted.
Next
week is our final half a week:
Monday-
Continue review of sentences, paragraphs, essays, literary work
Tuesday
– Final test – paragraph (worth 6 points) Do something fun
Wednesday-
Marks day. You can email during class time and I will send you back your final
mark.
Today’s
agenda:
1.
Essay#1 mark x/6 convert to x/10
Essay is worth 10 points.
I mark out of 6. Feels natural to me to
mark out of 6. BC Standard
3/6 = 5/10
4/6 = 6.7/10
3.8/6 = 6.3/10
I will get the rest
of the essay back to you today or tomorrow.
2.
First Nations lecture
Monday & Tuesday
1.
Continue Frirst Nations lecture
2.
Review Essay#1
3.
Leftover grammar – parallelism, sent comb
4.
Review of course work – sentences, paragraph,
points of grammar
Wednesday – final day
No class meeting. Non-intructional day.
You can email me during classtime, and I will email you your
final mark.
e.g.
Hi,
What is my final mark?
Thanks,
Alison
Hi Alison,
Your final mark is 68%.
You are ready to move on to the next level.
Best,
Al
REMINDER: Register
for summer if you haven’t already.
I will teach EF6
in the summer.
LECTURE
NOTES First Nations history and issues in Canada
·
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,
We learned nothing
about First Nations Peoples when I was in school.
Big change in
education:
literature, English
10 or 12
First People’s
English 10 or 12
for example, history
- 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
sterotypes
·
First Contact Canada
http://aptn.ca/firstcontact/
First Contact of Europeans with
First Nations
·
First Nations -Who they are?
·
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
·
Where did they come from?
·
First Nations creation myths/ stories
myth – legend,
fiction, story
Every group has a
creation story.
Greek myths –
Religious stories-
Bible, Koran
·
Read “The Beginning of the HaidiGwaii World” on
LCD
The Beginning of
the Haida Gwaii World
In the beginning, before the creation
of the world, the earth was completely covered by a vast ocean and the sky was
all grey clouds. The cloud kingdom was ruled by the great Sha-lana. Sha-lana's
Chief servant was Raven.
One day Raven enraged his master and
was cast out into the ocean world. He flew over the ocean for a long period of
time until he became weary. Unable to find a place to rest, Raven became angry.
He began to beat his wings upon the water until the water rose up and touched
the clouds around him.
When the water receded back into the
ocean there appeared rocks upon which Raven rested. These rocks grew and
stretched across the ocean. The rocks turned into sand and after a short period
of time trees began to grow on the sand. After many moons the sand had turned
into beautiful islands, which we know today as the Queen Charlotte Islands
(Haida Gwaii).
Raven enjoyed his kingdom, yet he
became bored and lonely. He decided he needed someone to help him. So one day
he gathered two large piles of clam shells upon the beach and transformed them
into two human females. These two women complained saying that they should not
have both been created as women. So to make them happy Raven threw limpet
shells at one and turned her into a man, creating the Haida Gwaii people."
Clark, E., Indian Legends of Canada,
McClelland and Stewart: Toronto, 1991.
https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/exhibits/bc-archives-time-machine/galler07/frames/oralhist.htm
·
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”
·
Archeological theories about origins of First
Nations
·
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
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
·
cooperation- 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
Reservations- FN were forced to
live in small areas called Reservations
·
Residential schools
Talk about
·
Between the 1860s and 1990s 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.
·
Recently hundreds of unmarked graves have been
discovered.
MY OPINION: There are
thousands more yet to be discovered.
The idea was to
take the children and teach them how to maids, workers, to speak English or
French and to forget about their culture and language.
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)
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
·
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
Opening ceremony:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/national-centre-truth-reconciliation-winnipeg-1.3301305
·
EXPLORE Website:
*** REALLY GOOD WEBSITE ***
·
http://wherearethechildren.ca/en
Explore together
Walk through
Timeline
I encourage you to
watch a video or two.
Choose
one of the stories. Listen or read the transcript, make notes.
Indian
Horse Ch 11-12? photocopy and read together
***
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)
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
·
“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
THIS PART DONE
·
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
·
“My Moccasins Have Not Walked” work and student
poem
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