EF56 First Nations

 

English Foundations 5/6

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30.

 

Today’s agenda

·      Continue “Residential Schools”

Pick vocab for Quiz#2 RW (optional)

·      Begin First Nations lecture

·      Quiz#2 rewrite tomorrow (optional)

 

 

 

Wednesday

·      Continue with First Nations lecture

·      Begin complex sentences- adverb clauses

·      Quiz#2 RW (optional)

 

 

Thursday

·      *Note: Thursday, September 30  NO SCHOOL

Thursday ,September 30^th- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/maple-leaf/defence/2021/07/federal-statutory-holiday-national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation.html

 

 

Friday

·      Test#2- paragraph about residential schools

·      Continue with complex sentences- adverb clauses

 

 

“Residential Schools”

- class-action – a group of poeple get together to sue a company

200 hundred smokers launched a class-action lawsuit against the tobacco company.

Residential school survivors want to launch a class-action lawsuit against the church.

 

genocide- genus – a whole group of people, cide- kill

 

 

 

busy as a beaver, beavering away – working hard

I am beavering away at my English.

 

 

 

 

 

Lecture notes for First Nations

 

·      Starting in May 2021

·      Unmarked graves of First Nations have been found on the grounds of old Residential Schools, over 1300 so far, probably hundreds and hundreds, thousands more across Canada

·      Residential Schools all across Canada

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools-in-canada-interactive-map

·      Organized by the Canadian government, run by the churches, paid for by the federal government

·      150 000 First Nations kids were forcibly taken away from their families to Residential Schools from 1860s to 1990s.

 

·      Focus of BC new curriculum- First Nations

First Nations ways of knowing, culture, history in Canada

e.g. First People’s English 12

 

·      My school experiences- none of the history, social studies, was about 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 stereotypes

 

 

** Maybe tell these stories

·      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

 

Overview - introduction

·      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. Also called Aboriginal.

First Nations came into common usage in the 1980s to replace the term ‘Indians’ Native

 

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

 

·      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 European ancestry

1600s and 1700s - Fur trading European men came to hunt animals, like beavers

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’.

 

 

 

·      Where did they come from?

·      First Nations creation myths/ stories

myth – legend, fiction, story

Every group has a creation story/myth

Bible- Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve

Shinto-

Koran-

Greek myths –

 

Different First Nations have different creation stories.

 

·      Read “The Beginning of the Haidi Gwaii 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”, other pictures

·      Different First nations have different stories-

e.g.Micmac, Mi'kmaq, Glooscap

 

Very interesting area of study – good choice First Peoples 10 and First Peoples 12

We offer these classes at South Hill – some students do both i.e. English 10 and First Peoples 10, English 12 and First Peoples English 12

 

Mary Simon – first Indigenous Governer General of Canada

 

 

Vocab for Quiz#2 rewrite

1.    education

2.    history

3.    objective

4.    language

5.    assimilate

6.    neglect

7.    heritage

8.    apology

9.    sue

10.                       hungry