Resource Library
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We are grateful to The Hammer Family Foundation for supporting the development of our on-demand learning and teaching resources.
Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Genocide Still Happens
Use this mini-lesson to reflect with your students on what we can do to stop ongoing atrocities and prevent future genocides.
Words Matter
Reflect on the power of the words that we attach to people through an Anishinaabe woman’s memory of being called an “Indian” while growing up in Canada (Spanish available).
Words Matter (en español)
Reflect on the power of the words that we attach to people through an Anishinaabe woman’s memory of being called an “Indian” while growing up in Canada. This resource is in Spanish.
Dispossession, Destruction, and the Reserves
Reserves existed in Africa, in the British American colonies, and in Canada, where the colonizers had to address the people they dispossessed— people who seemingly stood in the way of the political and economic plans of European settlers.
Dépossession, destruction et réserves
Il y avait des réserves en Afrique, dans les colonies britanniques, et au Canada, où les colonisateurs plaçaient les gens qu'ils avaient dépossédés, des gens qui se trouvaient au travers des plans politiques et économiques des colons européens.
Defining the Indian
Two main pieces of legislation laid the foundation for what was to be the new Dominion’s policy regarding relations with First Nations: the Gradual Civilization Act of 1857 and the Gradual Enfranchisement Act of 1869.
Définir l'Indien
Deux lois ont constitué le fondement de ce qui allait devenir la politique du nouveau Dominion concernant les relations avec les Premières Nations : l'Acte pour encourager la civilisation graduelle de 1857 et l'Acte pourvoyant à l'émancipation graduelle de 1869.
Banning Indigenous Culture
The ultimate goal of the Indian Act has always been the assimilation of the Indigenous Peoples as separate nations into mainstream Canada.
Bannir la culture autochtone
Le but ultime de la Loi sur les Indiens a toujours été l'assimilation des Peuples Autochtones en tant que nations distinctes dans la société majoritaire du Canada.
Traditional Education
The idea that Western culture was superior and that the Indigenous Peoples needed to be Christianized and civilized came from the biases of Europeans and their unwillingness to appreciate the complex, largely unwritten teaching processes inside indigenous communities.
Éducation traditionnelle
L'idée selon laquelle la culture occidentale était supérieure et les Autochtones devaient être christianisés et civilisés est venue des préjugés des Européens ainsi que de leur refus d'apprécier les enseignements complexes et largement non écrits des communautés autochtones.