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Aboriginal Studies

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CURRICULUM

Antiracism and Ethnocultural Equity in School Boards

Aboriginal Perspectives in the Ontario Curriculum (.pdf)

Elementary    Grades 1--8

Secondary


KPR RESOURCES

Melody Crowe, Native Education Liaison

The KPR board's Native Education Liaison visits schools/classrooms and provides information on past and present issues affecting native peoples. She also is available to assist in giving ideas about or helping to arrange native specific field trips.

Contact Melody directly to make arrangements for a class/school visit by e-mail or phone.  

Melody_Crowe@kprdsb.ca 
Roseneath P.S. 1-905-352-2161
VoiceMailbox    1-877-741-4577 ext. 2377   (Please leave a detailed message.)

 

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GLOSSARY

Aboriginal peoples.

The indigenous inhabitants of Canada, including status and non-status Indians, the Inuit, and the Métis peoples, without regard to their separate origins and identities. This collective term is interchangeable with Native peoples.


Aboriginal rights.

The rights that Native peoples retain based on their original occupancy of the land.

Aboriginal world view.

A balanced, harmonious, and orderly relationship between people and the world. The Aboriginal peoples evolved distinctive lifestyles founded on this concept.

appropriation.

When Aboriginal cultural motifs, themes, images, and so on are made use of by non-Aboriginal peoples without authority.

art form.

Any created product (e.g., story, dance, song, sculpture, or visual arts representation).

assimilate.

To absorb one group into the culture of another.

band.

A specific group of Aboriginal people officially registered under the Indian Act and usually identified with specific reserve land.

Bill C-31.

A bill that amended in 1985 certain sections of the Indian Act, in particular those related to status and band membership provisions.

community.

A collection of people who are united by kinship, tradition, language, culture, or circumstance. Communities traditionally provide a sense of individual and collective identity.

First Nation.

A term used in place of Indian band.

indigenous peoples.

Populations who are the original inhabitants of a particular region or environment.

Inuit.

A people also known as Inuvialuit, and previously known as Eskimo.

Métis.

People of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry.

reserve.

A tract of land set aside by agreement or treaty for the exclusive use of an Indian band, currently referred to as a First Nation community.

residential schools.

The Indian Act stipulates that the federal government is responsible for the education of status Indian children from the ages of six to eighteen. The act authorizes the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs to enter into agreements regarding the education of status Indian children with the government of a province, a public or separate school board, or a religious or charitable organization. Residential schools controlled by the churches comprised the basis of Native education for over a hundred years. Residential schools began to be closed in 1969; the last one closed in 1988.

self-government.

The right to govern, including the right to administer taxes, pass laws, manage land and natural resources, negotiate with other governments, and, in some instances, take responsibility for education, health, safety, and welfare services for a given community.

sovereignty.

Freedom from outside control (in the case of a nation, freedom to govern itself).

treaties.

Agreements in which Indians gave up their rights to land in exchange for certain promises made by the federal government.

 

(Glossary prepared by SchoolNet)

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Last updated: July 25, 2006

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