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Lesson 1: Introductions
For the next few days we will be taking time to get to know each other. There is an introduction sheet below for folks who were unable to be in class on day 1. Please fill out the questions on the sheet and be sure to also let me know what made you choose this class and if there are specific topics/questions you have about Indigenous issues/topics/cultures. I do not have all of the answers and I do not, by any means, speak for all Indigenous people but I will help with what I can and help guide you to the answers I don't have.
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I am really happy to have everyone back and to be working with you again in this way. I am looking forward to the quarter with you.
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Lesson 2: Introductions to ideas
This lesson is introducing us to main ideas and terms which will help us to understand Indigenous ways of seeing the world. We will talk more about world view later, but for now we will be getting to know ideas like: protocols, Indigenous spirituality, the connection between the land and First Nations people, and the significance of story to First Peoples. We will be working with our table partner to fill in a pie graph which will help with a chart later this week. Both the readings and the questions, along with the pie graph are here. I will record the readings in the next couple of days and place them on the web page.
The PDF files with the questions includes all of the handouts we will be working on for this section of the introduction.
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I will have paper handouts in class for you to work on, as well as copies of the intro from the text as well.
Text readings
Questions and charts
Lesson 3: Drumming and Singing
Men's Warrior Song
Women's Warrior Song
Lesson 4: The Regions and the Food There
Read the text from the chapter below and fill in the chart, as best you can with the info from the readings. The chart is called: Food Work sheet. It is a PDF, so you may have to print it and hand it in to me in person.
Food Work sheet
Lesson 5: Living on the Land and Sharing the Labour
Read the text from the chapter below and fill in the chart, as best you can with the info from the readings. The chart is called: Sharing the Labour. It is a PDF, so you may have to print it and hand it in to me in person.
Lesson 6: Sharing the Land and Rsources and Items traded for Status
Read the text from the chapter below (Sharing the Land And Resources). The work sheet is called: Items Traded for Status. It is a PDF, so you may have to print it and hand it in to me in person.
Lesson 7: The Dunne-za: Hunters and Dreamers
Read the text from the chapter below (The Dunne-za: Hunters and Dreamers). Follow the instructions on the word doc and create an idea web of how the hunters are connected to animals, the land, dream, and spirit.
Lesson 8: The Ulkatcho Region
Read the text from the reading provided below (Case Study: The Ulkatcho). Complete the map (in the PDF) using the instructions on the Word Doc.
Lesson 9: Your Logo
Read the Logo assignment PDF and create a logo, following the criteria on the sheet. Use a blank piece of paper to draw your logo. You may also use whatever materials you think will best represent the vision of your logo.
Weaving videos
Below are links to tutorial videos on how to warp up a loom and how to weave a Coast Salish bag. My thanks to my teachers: Spelexilh (Anjeanette Dawson) and Angela George from the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations.
Making a loom
Warping up
Weaving
Finishing the bag
Final Project
Choose one of the Elders from the folx you heard from in "In Their Own Words." Write a letter to one of them thanking them for their courage and generosity to share with us so that we are able to learn the truth about what happens in Canada to Indigenous peoples. The ppl in class are making tiles as a gift. I will be sending the tiles and the letters to the elders. See the PDF below for the instructions. I know the title of the page in the PDF is English First Ppls 11 but the assignment is the same.