Minecraft & Indigenous Knowledge

A Pacific NorthWest Coast Experience

Learn from elders and knowledge keepers, perform harvest tasks to help the village prepare for winter, and build a self-sustaining village further up the coast.

Learning objectives: Students will develop understanding of indigenous traditional ecological knowledge, focusing on the interconnectedness of all living and non-living things. Through participation, students will discover the sustainable practices that have been maintained by these peoples for millennia.

Traditional Indigenous Homes

You are part of an indigenous clan living in your native land prior to the 1700s. Your clan is task with building a traditional house.

Indigenous Rights in Canada

This world explores Indigenous treaty rights from pre to post contact. It also looks at relationships between government and indigenous communities. 

Indigenous Stories

Your challenge this month is to research a story told by the native people of your region and illustrate this story using Minecraft.

Manito Ahbee Aki

Travel back in time to experience Anishinaabe culture, community and teachings before European contact in North America.