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In this lesson students examine the idea of justice as it applies to Treaty interpretations.

In this lesson students explore James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the resulting affects on Cree and Inuit.

Defining Moments Canada brings life to history with interdisciplinary educational resources and digital crowdsourcing commemoration.

This lesson will introduce students to the basic sounds of the Cree language (Y dialect). Students will compare and contrast the Cree letters of the alphabet to the letters of the English alphabet.

In this lesson, students will investigate what daily life would have looked like for women from six different settlements.

The history of Afro-Indigenous peoples is largely underrepresented in classrooms and curricula due to the group’s intersectionality. Afro-Indigenous peoples have a unique history in Canada — and more broadly across Turtle Island — that deserves to be integrated into the narrative of Canadian history and Canadian identity. The following lesson is designed to better highlight the history of this marginalized group.

How can you prepare yourself for having difficult conversations with students about the history and legacy of the Residential School system? How do you respond to students’ questions and feelings? How can you support students when they are learning about these histories?

In this lesson, students will conduct their own research into the Dust Bowl.

One of the first officers of the newly formed North-West Mounted Police, Francis Dickens, son of novelist Charles Dickens, was noted for his famous parentage, if not much else.