Kamik: An Inuit Puppy Story
by Donald Uluadluak & Qin Leng
Description:
Appealing to many students who just love dogs, this story featuring a young boy and his grandfather talking about his young dog will instantly enthrall many young readers. Based upon the memories of an Inuk Elder, Donald Uluadluak, it speaks to the importance of dogs to the Inuit in particular and the respectful relationship between animals and Indigenous peoples.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Kindergarten, Grades 1-2
Keywords: dogs, puppy, Inuit, traditional animals, Inuit dogs, relationship with animals, Inuit traditional dog rearing, Kinship
Year of publication: 2012
Publisher information: Inhabit Media
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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