LibGuides: Indigenizing Columbia College: Indigenizing the Classroom

Lesson Plans and Practical Resources

100 ways to Indigenize and decolonize academic programs and courses
From the University of Regina's Dr. Shauneen Pete
Indigitization
A toolkit for the digitization of First Nations knowledge.
Towards Indigenizing Higher Ed: An Online Storytelling Series
A four-part series of seminars exploring many aspects of indigenizing higher education.
'There's no quick fix': Advice for teachers struggling to properly integrate Indigenous content into classes
CBC's Rosanna Deerchild and three educators discuss how teachers can learn to feel confident about teaching Indigenous content.
Lesson Plans in Indigenous Education
UVic Library's links for resources for educators, focusing on K-12
How and When to Invite Indigenous Speakers to the Classroom
The website ActiveHistory addresses the question: When is it appropriate for settler educators to invite Indigenous speakers into the classroom?
First Peoples Principles of Learning (FPPL)
A list of principles developed by the First Nations Steering Committee and incorporated into the new BC K-12 curriculum.
Witness Blanket UFV
Curriculum developed around the Witness Blankets by the University of the Fraser Valley.
Strong Nations
Strong Nations is an online Indigenous bookstore.

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom of Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia

Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
"Through collaboration with Indigenous partners, Parks Canada and Canadians are benefiting from traditional knowledge systems that have been handed down over many thousands of years."
Musqueam Teaching Resource
The materials found on this website support the many educational resources included within the Teaching Kit and Teacher’s Resource.

Teaching for Ecological Sustainability: Incorporating Indigenous Philosophies and Practices
Clinton L. Beckford and Russell Nahdee write about how schools and teachers can incorporate indigenous perspectives into environmental action.

Subject-Specific Lessons and Ideas

English

Food for Thought

Centering Relationality: A Conceptual Model to Advance Indigenous Knowledge Organization Practices
A theoretically informed model of Indigenous systems of knowledge serves as a pedagogical tool to support the labour of boundary spanning and code-switching between Euro-American knowledge organization practices and Indigenous knowledge organization practices.
Indigenizing Education in Canada
Chapter 11 in Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Indigenous Referencing Prototype – Non-Indigenous Authored Works
Suggests an alternative APA format that foregrounds Indigenous knowledge keepers over the non-Indigenous writers who conducted interviews and/or collected their knowledge.
Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning
A handbook on Indigeneity and higher education, from the "Difficult Dialogues" project at the University of Alaska
Indigenous Storywork
Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Dr. Jo-ann Archibald, Professor Emeritus, UBC Faculty of Education developed this website to help educators learn about Indigenous cultures and ways of knowing, predominantly through Indigenous traditional and life-experience stories.

Indigenizing the Academy by Angela Cavender Wilson (Editor); Devon Abbott Mihesuah (Editor)
Leading Native scholars from diverse disciplines and communities offer uncompromising assessments of current scholarship on and by Indigenous peoples and the opportunities awaiting them in the Ivory Tower.
Indigenous Storywork by Jo-Ann Archibald
Builds on the seven principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy that form a framework for understanding the characteristics of stories, appreciating the process of storytelling, establishing a receptive learning context, and engaging in holistic meaning-making
Resurgence by Katya Adamov Ferguson (Editor); Christine M'Lot (Editor)
Resurgence is a powerful collection of Indigenous voices in poetic, artistic, and narrative texts to support teachers in bridging existing curricular plans with rich, living texts and expressions.
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Explores the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge, and argues that the decolonization of research methods will help reclaim control over Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Decolonizing Education by Marie Battiste
Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge.
Potlatch As Pedagogy by Sara Florence Davidson
In this book, father and daughter present a model for learning that is holistic, relational, practical, and continuous.
Potlatch as Pedagogy by Sara Florence Davidson
Electronic book version.
Research Is Ceremony by Shawn Wilson
Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice.
Truth and Reconciliation Through Education by Yvonne Poitras Pratt, Sulyn Bodnaresko
How educators can respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action.

Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education

Freely available video series from the UBC MOOC "Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education"

Blogs

âpihtawikosisân
âpihtawikosisân is Métis from the Plains Cree speaking community of Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta. She currently lives in Montreal where she works in education, Aboriginal law, and the Cree language. She holds a BEd, an LLB and teaches indigenous youth.
Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples
Covers basics of the indigenous experience in Canada (including information on the Indian Act, reserves, treaty rights, etc.) as well as ideas for engagement strategies.

Decolonizing Our Minds

Decolonizing Our Practice - Indigenizing Our Teaching
"To be an educator in Saskatchewan is to ask oneself: how do I ensure that all students gain access to respectful and accurate information about First Nations peoples; how do I work to close the achievement gap for First Nations learners?"
Towards the ‘tangible unknown’: Decolonization and the Indigenous future
"Decolonization is indeed oppositional to colonial ways of thinking and acting but demands an Indigenous starting point and an articulation of what decolonization means for Indigenous peoples around the globe."

Experiential Education

Maplewood Flats
Maplewood Flats, in North Vancouver, offers tours with Tsleil-Watuth leaders.
Talaysay Tours
Talaysay Tours covers Stanley Park and some other areas.
Camosun Bog
Self-guided tours of this small but stunning bog by UBC.

Film Resources

Land Claims, Rights, Resistance, and Reconciliation

Documentaries and news pieces that look at issues surrounding Indigenous land claims, rights, resistance, and reconciliation in historical and modern contexts:

National Film Board - Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Metis) Land Claims and Rights
Curio - Indigenous Governance, Truth and Reconciliation
Unist'ot'en - Invasion: A film about the Unist'ot'en Camp, Gidimt'en checkpoint, and Wetsu'wet'en Nation.

Library Resources - Streaming Videos
UBC TEFA Talks Two Spirit with Harlan Pruden | Oct 26, 2016
TEFA welcomes Harlan Pruden, UBC PhD student and First Nations Cree scholar and activist, as he shares his fascinating journey and perspective on being Two Spirit. Come and learn more about what it means to be Two Spirit and how we can take an intersectional approach to better understand and support students who are both Indigenous and sexual or gender minorities.

How to Get Involved

150 Acts of Reconciliation for the Last 150 Days of Canada’s 150
A list of 150 acts to encourage people to think about Indigenous-settler relationships in new ways.

Indigenizing Columbia College: Indigenizing the Classroom

The Basics