"Federally, June is National Indigenous History Month and June 21st is National Indigenous Peoples Day. Although PDSB officially recognizes Indigenous Heritage Month in November, we encourage you to explore these resources and opportunities and infuse them into your distance learning plan."

"In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes the following calls to action..."

"Their Voices Will Guide Us is an educational and outreach initiative of the National Inquiry intended to facilitate critical thinking, purposeful reflection, and dialogue around the perceptions and lived realities of Indigenous women and girls, including members of 2SLGBTQQIA communities. The initiative is designed to engage students and teachers in meaningful learning about the important roles of Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people in their families, communities, and nationals, highlighting their strength, agency and resilience."

"This set of learning modules has been created to support and inspire educators and future teachers to gain a deeper understanding of Indigenous perspectives and an appreciation of how Indigenous knowledge and worldviews can assist all learners in their educational journey. The goal of the modules is to provide an introductory grounding to key issues affecting Indigenous people in Canada as a foundation for further and deeper learning."

"The First Nations, Métis & Inuit Education Association of Ontario is a subject association for First Nations, Métis and Inuit education in Ontario, Canada. We support and help all educators understand issues related to First Nation, Métis and Inuit Peoples in Canada as well as offer strategies for teaching this content to all learners."

"It's a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan in the 1970's. Her siblings say she was stolen, and then raped and murdered while trying to hitchhike back home, her body left at the side of the road somewhere in the United States. They have no idea where she is, whether her name was changed, or if anyone has been charged in her murder. "

"The Ethical Standards for the Teaching Profession represent a vision of professional practice. At the heart of a strong and effective teaching profession is a commitment to students and their learning. Explore this vision of professional practice through Anishinaabe art."

This resource was created by Barbara McVeigh, a Teacher Librarian at Fletcher's Meadow S.S. She created this resource to support secondary students and has provided links to a number of documents that have an abundance of fantastic resources!

Candida Silveira is a Special Education and First Nations, Métis and Inuit Studies teacher @ SCDSB and is Azorean/Mi'gmaw. She put together this wonderful list of resources for her NBE3C class but it is useful to many educators in a variety of subject areas.

"This comprehensive resource aims to bring about important conversations and critical inquiries into the importance of Indigenous knowledge systems. These systems of knowledge are complex, diverse and sophisticated, just as the Indigenous civilizations that they come from are. This resource presents many opportunities to engage in critical explorations and consider how multiple knowledge systems can come into dialogue with one another."

"Dr. Cindy Blackstock is the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. Dr. Blackstock joins us this morning to talk about “Spirit Bear and Children Make History”, a film based on the book of the same name. It’s a film that tells the true story of a landmark human rights case for First Nations children at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and how Spirit Bear and his friends stood with First Nations children and helped make Jordan’s Principle a reality."

This timeline presents key events and developments in Indigenous history in what is now Canada, from Time Immemorial to present. While no timeline can be exhaustive in its coverage, it provides a broad chronological overview to support educators and students.

This is a timeline of acts and treaties through Canadian history.

This is a comprehensive and extensive resource of Indigenous history, from the perspective of Indigenous people.

"This education guide aims to raise awareness of the history of residential schools in Canada and increase understanding of the important role education plays in the reconciliation process. The guide offers classroom activities you can use to explore this difficult topic. The guide offers standalone activities, as well as activities that connect to the Residential Schools Podcast Series and the videos created to accompany this guide."

This Interactive Choice Board has many resources that centre Indigenous perspectives, histories & current realities. This resource was created by the following Peel educators: LaToya Green, Jacqueline Gurdyal, Antonella Kalaitzis and Azi Manji.

"Residential Schools is a three-part podcast series created by Historica Canada and hosted by Shaneen Robinson-Desjarlais. It aims to commemorate the history and legacy of residential schools, and honour the stories of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Survivors, their families, and communities."

ETFO has put together a comprehensive resource to help teachers teach about Indigenous people and communities.

"The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) K-12 Métis Education Kits are an excellent resource for students, teachers, educators and community members to use inside and out of the classroom. Each kit contains a variety of items including a sash, flashcards, fiddle music, a Michif workbook, and a timeline of Métis history in Ontario. This is an exciting first step in providing an introduction to Métis history, culture, and heritage."

4Canoes is a publication focused on empowering Indigenous voices as a way of embracing the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Report. Our license to download is inclusive of all Peel board communities - educators, families, students and staff.

Follow each week as The Historical Natives tell stories about bone chilling creatures from the Indigenous peoples of North America.

Indigenous peoples in Canada have and continue to experience colonization. It is because of this, that educators need to develop culturally safe learning opportunities for students by partaking in a learning journey that includes meaningful planning and reflection. Despite the well intentions of educators when integrating Indigenous content, cultural appropriation, tokenism and misrepresentation can become a problem in the classroom.

The lessons are designed to be implemented in a range of courses, such as civics, history, social sciences, English, geography, business, careers, physical education and science. The resource has been produced as a PDF file on CD with an accompanying video on DVD. Although the lessons are intended for use with high school curricula, the video and activity sheet may be of use to all Federation members who work with students.

"Indigenous women face many socio-economic issues today because of the effects of colonization. Europeans forced a male-controlled system of government and society (known as patriarchy) on Indigenous societies. The 1876 Indian Act disadvantaged certain Indigenous women by excluding them from band council government and enforcing discriminatory measures that took away Indian Status rights. Many Indigenous women today are leading the way in the area of healing the wounds of colonization, as they grapple with the issues of residential schools, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, abuse and violence, and drug, alcohol and other addictions."

Kīwew is a five-part podcast in which Governor General award-winning author David A. Robertson dives into his family's history and mysteries as he discovers and connects with his Cree identity.

"If you love Indigenous books (especially fiction) as much as we do, then join us, Waubgeshig Rice and Jennifer David, as we talk ‘all things Indigenous books’. Each episode, we bring in a guest host (an Indigenous author), and we discuss one book. We laugh, we tell stories, we get animated, we debate, we discuss. We always support and promote First Nations, Inuit and Métis authors and their books. Read the books, listen to the episodes (they contain spoilers!) and join in the conversations about the Storykeepers."

"Indigenous Canada is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Indigenous Canada is for students from faculties outside the Faculty of Native Studies with an interest in acquiring a basic familiarity with Indigenous/non-Indigenous relationships."

Telling our Twisted Histories is a series that reclaims Indigenous history by exploring words whose meanings have been twisted by centuries of colonization.

"The Caring Society works to ensure the safety and well-being of First Nations youth and their families through education initiatives, public policy campaigns and providing quality resources to support communities. Using a reconciliation framework that addresses contemporary hardships for Indigenous families in ways that uplift all Canadians, the Caring Society champions culturally based equity for First Nations children and their families so that they can grow up safely at home, be healthy, achieve their dreams, celebrate their languages and culture and be proud of who they are. The Caring Society proudly works with our partners in Canada and around the world to promote the rights of Indigenous children. "