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Issue #162
May, 2023

COVID-19 Resources for Indigenous Communities and Individuals

Source: Cultural and Indigenous Research on Counseling Psychology (CIRC), McGill

Summary: There are many helpful resources for Indigenous Peoples, with a focus on First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities in Canada and Quebec (though some international and U.S. resources are included). The following resources have been gathered by the Cultural and Indigenous Research in Counselling Psychology (CIRC) lab within the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University.

Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Framework

Source: Government of Canada

Summary: Children hold a sacred place in the cultures of Indigenous peoples. With that comes a sacred responsibility to care for them. High-quality, culturally-specific and well-supported early learning and child care (ELCC) programs, services and supports that are specifically designed for and with Indigenous families and communities will make a genuine difference in the early experiences of children. This, in turn, will support children’s long-term development and life outcomes. High-quality Indigenous ELCC programming empowers young children with a strong sense of identity. It provides educational opportunities and school readiness and contributes to their overall health and wellness from early years into adulthood.

ELCC programs can holistically support parents and families to participate in their cultures and languages. Programs provide access to information and resources, connections to community, alignment to unique health, education and social needs, and child care for children while parents participate in traditional lifestyles, work, training, education and other facets of their lives.

Cadre d’apprentissage et de garde des jeunes enfants autochtones

Source: Gouvernement du Canada

Résumé: Les enfants occupent une place sacrée dans la culture des peuples autochtones. Il s’y ajoute une responsabilité tout aussi sacrée de s’occuper d’eux. Des programmes, des services et des mesures de soutien en matière d’apprentissage et de garde des jeunes enfants de grande qualité, adaptés à la culture, bien financés et conçus spécifiquement pour les familles et les communautés autochtones feront une réelle différence dans les premières expériences des enfants. Ils favoriseront également le développement des enfants et leur réussite dans la vie. De bons programmes d’apprentissage et de garde donnent aux jeunes enfants un fort sentiment d’identité. Ils leur offrent des possibilités de s’instruire et de se préparer à l’école et contribuent à leur santé et à leur bien-être, de la petite enfance à l’âge adulte.

Les programmes autochtones d’apprentissage et de garde offrent aux parents et aux familles un soutien global pour qu’ils participent à leur culture et à leurs langues. Les programmes permettent d’accéder à de l’information et à des ressources, de créer des liens avec la communauté, d’harmoniser les besoins uniques en matière de santé, d’éducation et de services sociaux, et d’assurer la garde des enfants pendant que les parents participent à la vie traditionnelle, travaillent, suivent une formation, poursuivent des études et s’adonnent à d’autres aspects de leur vie.

Pour une vraie réconciliation

Source: Histoire du Canada        

À l’intention des étudiants au primaire

Résumé: Les élèves se pencheront sur les pertes culturelles et personnelles des enfants lors de leur passage dans les pensionnats. Ils formuleront leurs propres idées sur la réconciliation et l’action communautaire.•  Télécharger le plan de leçon (français)Le lien s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet

Learning First Peoples Classroom Resources

Source: FNESC

Focus: Secondary students

Summary: With the increased inclusion of First Peoples’ content in the changing BC curriculum, there is a need to incorporate unappropriated First Peoples’ perspectives across the curriculum.  The First Nations Education Steering Committee and the First Nations Schools Association, in collaboration with teachers and partners, have developed the following Learning First Peoples series of teacher resources to support English Language Arts, Science Social Studies and Mathematics courses.

The resources reflect the First Peoples Principles of Learning as well as the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including the call to “integrate Indigenous Knowledge and teaching methods into classrooms” and “build student capacity for intercultural understanding, empathy and mutual respect.”

PEDAGOGY that embraces Indigenous ways of knowing are fostered by approaches to teaching and learning that include purposeful thinking about people, places and processes.

Source: The John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights (JHC)

Focus: Teachers

Summary: The First Nations, Métis and Inuit Professional Learning website provides educators with supports and tools to design and facilitate professional learning. It offers curricular resources that build capacity, engage learners and build paths toward reconciliation through education.

The Learning to Do pillar webpage provides a wide range of professional tools and supports that engage you in professional learning to support curricular programming. This webpage includes features to help you self-assess your capacity and a photo resource gallery with numerous links to sources, websites and resources.

This gallery includes Grades 1-12 Curricular Resources in Moodle folders that are correlated to specific subject areas and grade levels. These folders include resources and activities specific to learning outcomes in core subjects. Each folder can be downloaded and imported into a Moodle server.

International Decade of Indigenous Languages

Source: Government of Canada

Summary: The United Nations declared 2022-2032 the International Decade of Indigenous Languages.

A key outcome of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, the Decade aims to draw global attention to the critical situation of many Indigenous languages and to mobilize relevant stakeholders for the preservation, revitalization, and promotion of these languages. The Decade also focuses on mainstreaming, and taking pride in, linguistic diversity and multilingualism, while ensuring that the rights of Indigenous peoples to preserve and promote their languages are respected.

Throughout the Decade, Canada will recognize, raise awareness of, and celebrate the richness and diversity of Indigenous languages.

Décennie internationale des langues autochtones

Source: Gouvernement du Canada

Résumé: Les Nations Unies ont déclaré 2022-2032 la Décennie internationale des langues autochtones.

Résultat clé de l’Année internationale des langues autochtones de 2019, la Décennie vise à attirer l’attention mondiale sur la situation critique de nombreuses langues autochtones et à mobiliser les parties prenantes concernées pour la préservation, la revitalisation et la promotion de ces langues. La Décennie met également l’accent sur l’intégration de la diversité linguistique et du multilinguisme, et sur leur fierté, tout en veillant à ce que les droits des peuples autochtones de préserver et de promouvoir leurs langues soient respectés.

Tout au long de la Décennie, le Canada reconnaîtra, sensibilisera et célébrera la richesse et la diversité des langues autochtones.

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