English

Indigenous Literature Resources

Poems, Essays, Short Stories, and Films

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FNESC Resources

  1. Introduction to English First Peoples

  2. In Search of Authentic First Peoples’ voice

  3. First Peoples’ Oral Traditions

  4. We Are Our Stories

  5. Place-Conscious Learning – Exploring Text through Local Landscape

  6. Identity Understanding Character

  7. First Steps – Exploring Residential Schools and Reconciliation

  8. Children’s Literature

  9. Further Steps toward Reconciliation – Understanding Residential Schools through Text

  10. Relationships – Families, Friendships, Communities, and the Land

  11. “You Want Me to Write a What?” – The Literary Essay

  12. The Trickster – A Recurring Presence in First Peoples Literature

Unit 1: Introduction to English 10 and 11 First Peoples

Unit 2: Traditional Stories

Unit 3: The Oral Tradition in Mi’kmaq Society

Unit 4: Childhood through the Eyes of Indigenous Writers

Unit 5: Where Do I Belong? Explorations into our Sense of Belonging 65 Unit 6: Allusion in Poetry

Unit 7: Relationships

Unit 8: Perspectives on Land Development Issues

Unit 9: Family Bonds and Family Dysfunction

Unit 10: Politicization of First Peoples

Unit 11: Challenges to Identity — Colonialism and Cultural Renewal

Unit 1: Introduction to English 12 First Peoples

Unit 2: The Oral Tradition

Unit 3: Storytelling

Unit 4: Lost People

Unit 5: Residential Schooling – A Recurring Theme in Varied Texts

Unit 6: From the Heart – Poetry

Unit 7: Research Essay

Unit 8: Identity

Unit 9: Humour

Unit 10: Trickster

Unit 11: Métis Literature