Shé:kon for another round of Lester B. Pearson's teaching capsules. A hot topic that is essential to the history of the boards catchment area is The Oka Crisis; we call it the Oka Crisis in the context of Canadian history because it was centralized around a dispute in the community of Oka. However, in my community (Kahnawà:ke) and Kanesatake, there are several different names it goes by: 

Summer of '90 

The standoff in the Pines

The Blockade

The Kanesatake Resistance 

The Siege of Kanesatke and Kahnawà:ke

An interesting thought activity in itself could be to analyze the perspectives of the conflict based on how they are referred to. Which is definitely something useful when working on this topic with older students. However, what are the building blocks in the earlier years that can be set to scaffold learning into a more contextualized understanding of the 1990 conflict? 

This capsule will focus on pre-learning concepts rooted in Indigenous activism and resistance for children from Kindergarten to their graduating year.

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Scaffolding Framework