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Resources for Decolonizing Your Teaching

This list offers resources to support a path towards decolonizing our teaching.

Maps

Ministry of Indigenous Affairs. (2018). Treaties and First Nations map for Ontario

Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada. (2018).  (4 volumes, First Nations, Inuit, Metis, Truth and Reconciliation). A source of learning materials including photographs, historical and modern maps, and personal stories and essays by Indigenous leaders, journalists, storytellers, artists, and knowledge keepers. 

book covers of the four atlas volumes

Indigenous peoples and communities

Key Reading

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada Map Room:

  • Maps by province and territory
  • Treaties, claims, and agreements
  • The First Nation Profiles interactive map describes individual First Nation communities across Canada. The profiles include general information and details about its reserve(s), governance, federal funding, geography, registered population statistics and various Census statistics.

Open Education Resources

Canadian Indigenous OERs: Open access textbooks compiled by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.

Indigenous Education Resource Inventory: Compiled by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the British Columbia Teacher’s Federation, the First Nations Education Steering Committee, and Métis Nation British Columbia. Includes guides, books and e-books, articles, websites, and videos.

Community first: Open practices and Indigenous knowledge: "examines how Open Educational Resources (OER) intersects with concepts of community ownership, Indigenous intellectual property rights, and cultural protocols."

Healing and Reconciliation Through Education: history of the colonial legacy of Residential Schools, with emphasis on Shingwauk Residential School in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. 

Indigenous Teaching Resources: Students Collection: Resources for K-12.

Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science, Book: Overview of why traditional knowledge and wisdom should be included in the science curriculum, a window into the science and technologies of the Indigenous peoples who live in Northwestern North America, Indigenous worldview, culturally responsive teaching strategies and curriculum models, and evaluative techniques.