by boot | Feb 28, 2025
Research the pueblos of the American Southwest. How are they constructed? What kind of time and engineering would have to have been used? How many families lived in one pueblo? Using clay, modeling clay or plasticine, construct a pueblo in class. This can be done in...
by boot | Feb 28, 2025
(Warning: sensitive topics — youth prison, inmate life, violence, drug and alcohol abuse) Research the term restorative justice. Share with classmates: What is it? Where do the ideas come from? How is it being used in Canada? In the United States? How is it different...
by boot | Feb 28, 2025
(Warning: sensitive topics — youth drug and alcohol abuse, residential school syndrome, suicide, alcoholism, abuse) Research residential school syndrome. What supports are in place to assist survivors and their families, if any? How has this impacted Indigenous people...
by boot | Feb 28, 2025
How has the United States government compensated the Shoshone for the taking and contamination of their land? Do they receive any medical care for the exposure of their community to radiation? What other Indigenous lands have been taken for government use in your...
by boot | Feb 28, 2025
What organizations exist to support Indigenous veterans? In what wars (U.S. or Canadian) did Indigenous people fight in? Investigate the Navajo Code Talkers. Why were they so successful? Curriculum Connections: Native Languages, Indigenous Studies (Worldviews),...
