The Seven Teachings Stories
by Katherena Vermette & Irene Kuziw
Description:
Publisher's description (Highwater Press, 2014, 2015): This seven part short illustrated stories series each feature a child embodying or learning one of the seven sacred teachings of the Anishinaabe—love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth. Each story shows an Indigenous child in a modern, urban setting accessible to learners both Indigenous and not. Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One Territory.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Grades 1 - 4
Keywords: Seven Sacred Teachings, urban setting, love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, truth, Anishinaabe, Cultural Lessons, Indigenous Urban/Contemporary
Year of publication: 2014, 2015
Publisher information: Highwater Press
Teaching and Learning Ideas
Our team collaborated with new teachers, alumni of the Werklund School of Education’s Bachelor of Education program, to create teaching and learning plans for texts in this website. With audiences ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to Post-Secondary, lesson plans across this resource address a wide range of school subject areas, inclusive approaches, and Indigenous education topics, such as the revitalization of Indigenous languages. As this website was designed with Undergraduate Programs in Education instructors, as well as teachers in mind, connections to UPE courses have been flagged on each lesson plan. These lessons are intended as a starting place for educators, to help you envision ways in which you might bring Indigenous literatures, as well as ways of knowing, being, and doing, into your teaching contexts. Please adapt, use, and share these lessons in ways that are generative for your teaching practice. We offer our sincere thanks to the dozens of new teachers who gifted us with these creative ideas!
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