At 7 Generation Games we’ve merged educational research, game design and technology to produce results (300% improvement over the control group on math skills). Using story lines from history, our educational games teach math, English and Spanish in context. Imagine if The Sims met up with the Mario Brothers on Oregon Trail. Developed with educators, our games simultaneously teach, test understanding and track progress. Whether you’re in a school with a Windows lab or a parent trying to get your child to do something productive on their iPad, we have games for you.” Calculate the size of an invading army. Figure out how much medicine is needed to save your tribe from an epidemic. Math becomes a matter of life or (virtual) death! 7 Generation Games makes immersive video games and interactive apps that teach math, integrating Social studies and language arts – in English and Spanish. Our games target players ages 8-14, teaching multiplication, division, fractions and statistics. Choose from making your own virtual wigwam in ‘Making Camp’; medicine hunting in ‘Spirit Lake’; and following in teachings of Ojibwe elders, there are walking trails and fishing expeditions in ‘Forgotten Trail’ and ‘Fish Lake.’ All games are available for webplay with teacher resources to accompany each game.

From the authors : "Native Governance Center co-hosted an Indigenous land acknowledgment event with the Lower Phalen Creek Project on Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019 (October 14). The event featured the following talented panelists: Dr. Kate Beane (Flandreau Santee Dakota and Muskogee Creek), Mary Lyons (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe), Rose Whipple (Isanti Dakota and Ho-Chunk), Rhiana Yazzie (Diné), and Cantemaza (Neil) McKay (Spirit Lake Dakota). We’ve created this handy guide to Indigenous land acknowledgment based on our panelists’ responses." This is a useful guide full of straightforward tips for how and why to acknowledge territory as a non-Indigenous person.

Joseph Couture (1930–2007), known affectionately as “Dr. Joe,” stood at the centre of some of the greatest political, social, and intellectual struggles of Indigenous peoples in contemporary Canada. A profound thinker and writer, as well as a gifted orator, he easily walked two paths, as a respected Elder and traditional healer and as an educational psychologist, one of the first Indigenous people in Canada to receive a PhD. A Metaphoric Mindbrings together for the first time key works selected from among Dr. Joe’s writings, published and unpublished. Shaped by his Social science training but also by his apprenticeship in Medicine Ways, his writings allow us to experience the richness and power of Indigenous culture.

To help understand the pervasiveness and relevancy of residential schools, this map will show you how close you lived to a residential school and provide the years it was open.

This is a resource to help people acknowledge the Indigenous lands they live, work, and otherwise gather on. While the authors emphasize that this is a guide and not a script, this guide does include several templates for acknowledging territory all over the country. The authors also emphasize that while acknowledging territory is important, it is only a small part of cultivating strong relationships with Indigenous Peoples and should not simply be a performative statement made formally before an event. This document has been reviewed by CAUT’s Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education Working Group. Many of the acknowledgement examples were developled through consulting written documents like treaty maps and texts; the authors encourage and appreciate suggested edits.

This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree folklore, photographs, artifacts, and books that were written and printed in the community. Made as part of the NFB’s groundbreaking Challenge for Change series, Cree Way shows that local control of the education curriculum has a place in Indigenous communities.

Handful of Indigenous resources geared towards Mi’kmaq teachings. Includes journals, websites, book titles, and language posters for teaching and learning.

Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential School. She misses her Grandma; she has run-ins with Cree girls; at her “white” school, everyone just stares; and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name—she is now just a number. But worst of all, she has a fear. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language; the names of those she knew before; and her traditional customs. A fear of forgetting who she was. Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. And maybe, just maybe there will be hope at the end of the tunnel. Drawing from her own experiences at Residential School, Ruby Slipperjack creates a brave, yet heartbreaking heroine in Violet, and lets young readers understand the effects of settler colonialism. * Shortlisted, RedCedar Award (BC Young Readers’ Choice 2018; Commended, Best Books for Kids and teens, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2017; Commended, TD Summer Reading Club, 2017; Commended, CBC Best Books of the year, 2016

This source describes in detail what the doctrine of discovery is, how it has shaped Canada's relationship with Indigenous Peoples (legally, politically, economically, and socially) and why it must be formally renounced in Canada in order to achieve reconciliation and decolonization. This is a useful source for teachers who may need some background knowledge about how the Canadian government and settlers more broadly tend to write, think, and talk about Canada as a place that was "discovered" by explorers or pioneers. For teachers beginning to introduce the concept of Treaties, a first step may be to internally reflect upon how we have, generally, historically been taught or are expected to teach Canada's history of settlement. This is an incredible resource for dismantling any preconceived notions of Canada as a "blank space" or terra nulius before European settlement, and a source that provides many justifications for overruling doctrine of discovery pedagogy with new paradigms.

FNER is a collection of links to educational resources compiled by Angela Towedo, BA, BEd. Oji-Cree Teacher, whose goal is to improve the lives of Indigenous children across Canada by providing tools for Indigenous and non-indigenous educators