FRENCH ABORIGINAL EDUCATION RESOURCES

INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH ABORIGINAL EDUCATION RESOURCES:

GENERAL ABORIGINAL EDUCATION RESOURCES (IN FRENCH):

From Time Immemorial, by Diane Silvey (1999)

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/television/8efeu/index.shtml CBC 8^th fire television series.  (Also available in English at http://www.cbc.ca/8thfire/)

http://www.museedelhistoire.ca/expositions/expositions-en-ligne/expositions-en-ligne/.  Information from the Canadian Museum of History, including a section on Aboriginal watercraft at this link: http://www.museedelhistoire.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/watercraft/waintfra.shtml

http://www.fourdirectionsteachings.com/fr/index.html.  Audio-narrated resource about diverse Indigenous people and philosophies.

http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/deepeningknowledge/Teacher_Resources/Curriculum_Resources_(by_subjects)/French_as_Second_Language.html.  Resources for FSL and French Immersion teachers  as recommended by OISE.

http://www.linktolearning.com/grade5ss.htm.  Links to many French websites.

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA RESOURCES (IN FRENCH):

http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fra/1302795811383/1302795996982.  Games.

http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fra/1302870688751/1302870910265.  People & history.

http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fra/1302868012055/1302868605384  Downloadable pdf teacher resource (The Learning Circle for ages 4-16)

http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fra/1303147522487/1303147669999  FAQ’s.

ABORIGINAL STORYTELLING RESOURCES:

ABORIGINAL STORYTELLING RESOURCES (IN ENGLISH):

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/aswt/index.html#/oral_tradition

Digital professional resource for teachers about Aboriginal ways of knowing, including the oral tradition.

http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/01/8th-fire-drew-hayden-taylor-on-the-role-of-storytellers.html.  Video on the role of the Aboriginal storyteller.

https://courses.edx.org/c4x/UBCx/IndEdu200x/asset/Topic_4_-_Eleven_Storytelling_Resources.pdf  Resources from UBC’s Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education (2015).

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/stories/index-e.html  Our Voices, Our Stories is a government website that celebrates Canadian Aboriginal stories.

AMBIENCE:

http://safeshare.tv/w/dFBMEKNfCc.  Virtual bonfire for oral storytelling.

ANIMATED STORIES (IN ENGLISH):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RYByws56TQ  Story of creation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MiNO2qpESE  The Big Rock Story is a sample of a story from the Raven Tales series that is available onYouTube.

https://www.isuma.tv/haidawood  Stop motion videos made in Haida Gwaii.

http://mathcatcher.irmacs.sfu.ca/stories  Videos to promote mathematics amongst Aboriginal learners.

ABORIGINAL FILMS (IN FRENCH)

https://www.onf.ca/chaines/peuples_autochtones/  Films produced by NFB.

ABORIGINAL STORYTELLING RESOURCES (IN FRENCH):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TbfrOnMDdU  Stories on Stone is a film about First Nations Storytelling produced by the Royal Alberta Museum.

http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fra/1302889494709/1302889781786

Audio-narrated stories in French from the Government of Canada website.

http://www.metismuseum.ca/browse/index.php/1188

French stories narrated aloud on the Métis museum website.  This link is from

http://portal.acc-society.bc.ca/literacy/storytelling, which is an incredibly rich BC Aboriginal Childcare Society website portal with many links to professional resources on story.