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WALKING CURRICULUM

​The purpose of this document is to support the Walking Curriculum 30-day challenge and to introduce an Indigenous perspective to the learning activities.

Walking-based practice helps connect curricular concepts to the real world, and helps students develop a sense of Place.

RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

This Canadian Encyclopedia entry provides a concise overview of the history of residential schools in Canada, highlighting their function as institutions of assimilation, the unfit living conditions that students endured, and the lasting damages that this form of schooling has caused.

FNESC: GRADE 10

FNESC: GRADE 11/12
These learning resources from the First Nations Educational Steering Committee (FNESC) are designed to help Grade 10 students attain an understanding of the history of the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people of Canada's history. They are for the instruction of youth from all cultural backgrounds, not just Aboriginal students.
​These learning resources from the First Nations Educational Steering Committee (FNESC) are designed to use as an inquiry approach to provide students in a number of Grade 11 and 12 courses with an understanding of the history of the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada.

PROJECT OF HEART

According to the Project of Heart website, "Project of Heart” is an inquiry based, hands-on, collaborative, inter-generational, artistic journey of seeking truth about the history of Aboriginal people in Canada. Its purpose is to:
  • Examine the history and legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada and to seek the truth about that history, leading to the acknowledgement of the extent of loss to former students, their families and communities
  • Commemorate the lives of the thousands of Indigenous children who died as a result of the residential school experience.
  • Call Canadians to action, through social justice endeavors, to change our present and future history collectively
This website provides resources to use when looking at the history of the Residential School system in Canada.

SPEAKING MY TRUTH

 IMPACT STORIES
This PDF provides selected reflections, in reader format, on the lived and living experiences and legacies of Residential Schools, and, more broadly, on reconciliation in Canada.
This web page from Reconciliation Canada includes 12 short videos of various Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples (from school kids, artists, community leaders, etc.) as they talk about their connection to reconciliation.

STATEMENTS OF APOLOGY

These speeches -- delivered by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2008, and by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017 -- formally acknowledge and apologize for the residential school history of Canada and the aggressive assimilation strategies that the government employed.