Caribou Song
by Tomson Highway & John Rombough
Description:
This picturebook is dual language, containing both English and Cree. This picturebook focuses on two young brothers who sing and dance to bring the caribou to their resting spot for the night as they are out in northern Canada with their family. Tomson Highway is Cree and John Rombough is Dene.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Grades 1-7
Keywords: dual language book, Cree, young brothers, northern Canada, Cree language, kinship
Year of publication: 2013
Publisher information: Fifth House
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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