Indigenous Teaching Resources: Students Collection

Publisher's Description (Kwantlen Polytechnic University): This is a compilation of resources to support Indigenous education initiatives. The resource includes picture book and chapter book use for K - 12 classrooms, activities to support mathematics and science-based learning, and a portion of this resource is also dedicated to intergenerational learning. This open education downloadable e-book is a resource curation project aims to enhance understandings of topics such as Indigenous languages, scientific approaches, mathematical concepts, Residential schools, first contact, storytelling, and settler colonialism. 

Creator Biographies (Kwantlen Polytechnic University):
Katelyn Bouvier: I am a self-identified Métis and I have recently applied for my Métis Nation BC Card. I am the second generation to reside on Coast Salish lands and I currently live upon the traditional and ancestral land of the Kwantlen, W̱SÁNEĆ, Stó:lō, Tsawwassen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo Nations. After going through the long process of tracing back my Métis ancestry on my paternal side, I will be the first person from my immediate family to receive a Metis Nation BC card. I look forward to learning more about my heritage!

Michelle Souliere: My name is Michelle Souliere, I currently work, study, and reside on the unceded traditional territories of the Stó:lō, Matsqui, Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo First Nations. I also wish to recognize the long history of First Nations Peoples in the area in which I was raised. I acknowledge and wish to show respect to these communities today. I was brought up on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe Peoples and graciously welcomed onto the lands of Nipissing First Nations, Dokis First Nations and Temagami First Nations. I am grateful to have been invited to participate in numerous ceremonies, Pow Wows, smudgings’, to have spoken with local elders, and to have been embraced by local Indigenous communities. I moved to British Columbia (BC) ten years ago, when I decided to join my sister in the Western part of Canada, and I am fortunate to have the opportunity to learn about Indigenous communities in BC.

Lilach Marom: I am a first-generation Jewish-Israeli immigrant to Canada, currently residing on Coast-Salish territories. When I first came to this land, I knew close to nothing about the history of this place. My motivation for immigration emerged from the ongoing land disputes and the occupation in my home country. I wanted my kids to grow in a safe and peaceful place, and Canada seemed to be just this.

Rachel Chong: Taanishi kiiyawow. Rachel Chong dishinikashoon. Niiya Michif, ooschin Win Nipiy Pik. I would like to start by thanking Michif teacher Joshua Morin (Edmonton, AB) for teaching me our Métis language. In Michif I said: Hi, my name is Rachel Chong. I am Métis, from the Red River Settlement.

Resource type: Teaching Materials

Age recommendation: Post-Secondary

Keywords: Metis, Salish, Counting, math, alphabet, identity, teaching, reconciliation, science, land-based, First Peoples, Blanket exercise, integrating knowledges, open access

Year of publication: 2022

Publisher information: Kwantlen Polytechnic University