During Treaties Recognition Week (November 4 – 9), students across the ALCDSB will have the opportunity to participate in a one-hour virtual session with Anishinaabe Artist Moses Lunham, Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, embark on projects, inquiries and classroom discussions and explore the work of Indigenous influencers and changemakers.
Schools may choose to participate by:
- Reading Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) Calls to Action over the PA system during morning announcements.
- Making TRC Calls to Action posters to hang around the school.
- Dedicating a week-long focus to Treaty Education, provocations and inquiry with the resources included below as a foundational work.
- Review maps that show Indigenous territories and treaties and learn about treaty rights and our relationships with treaty partners.
- Explore the work of Treaty educators; Alan Corbiere, Issac Murdoch, and Maurice Switzer, see links below.
Treaties week was introduced in 2016 to honour the importance of Treaties and to help us learn more about Treaty rights and Treaty relationships.
The ALCDSB is actionably committed and dedicated to the understanding that we are all Treaty People, and we encourage our educators to engage students by sharing the following resources.
Resources:
The Anishinaabe View - In Their Own Words - Episode 7, Alan Corbiere
Treaty Misinformed, Issac Murdoch
Indigenous Voices on Treaties, Maurice Switzer
We Are All Treaty People - Full Book
WAMPUM TALK: We Are All Treaty People
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
In Our Words FNMIEAO
Let’s Learn About Treaties, Jodi Williams
Grades K-6 Slideshow
Treaties Recognition Week, Jodi Williams
Grades 7-12 Slideshow
Unsettling Canada, Arthur Manuel and Ronald Derrickson
21 Things to Know about the Indian Act, Robert P.C. Joseph, Bob Joseph
