Practicum resources

JEOPARDY!

JEOPARDY - SPEED MATCH

DANCE

Cree Round Dance

Strombo Round Dance Flash Mob: 

Traditional Haka

All Blacks Haka

Learn the Haka

Palestinian Dabke

Learn the Dabke 1

Learn the Dabke 

Explanation and tutorial for dabke 

Electric Slide



HISTORY

What is a primary source? 

The People of British North America

How to make cider

More cider making

The daily life of First Nations 1850-1890

I cannot cross the great Lake to talk to you for my Canoe is too small, and I am old and weak. I cannot look upon you for my eyes not see so far. You cannot hear my voice across the Great Waters. I therefore send this Wampum and paper talk to tell the Queen I am in trouble. My people are in trouble. . .  No hunting Grounds—No Beaver—no Otter . . . poor for ever. . . . All these Woods once ours. Our Fathers possessed them all. . . . White man has taken all that was ours. . . . Let us not perish  

Canada: A People's History, Episode 10, 26:30-31:54

1:16:41 - Riel Rebellion

Thomas More before and after his entrance into the Regina Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan in 1874.

Why My Dad Went To Jail

 By Alvina Dreaver

Permit Book from Duck Lake Agency (Canada – Indian and Northern Affairs Canada)
Saskatchewan Archives Board

 I remember a way back in years, about fifty years ago. I was about five years old at that time. There was flu going around. A lot of children died.

Three of my sisters died within two days. Nancy and Gladys died at home on the Muskoday Reserve. Beatrice died at the Onion Lake residential school. The news of her death did not reach my parents for about two weeks. Beatrice was buried at Onion Lake. My dad wanted to build coffins for the burial of my two other sisters but he needed some lumber. To get the lumber he needed, he wanted to sell one of his steers. To sell the steer he had to get a permit from Mr. Simpson, the farm instructor. But the farm instructor refused to give him a permit.

My dad went ahead and sold one of the steers anyway to a farmer in the Birch Hills district. He then bought the lumber and white material he needed to make the coffins. He made the coffins and buried my sisters.

Pass # 15 Duck Lake Agency: request to visit children at Industrial School
May 25, 1889. Saskatchewan Archives Board

About a month later, the RCMP came to our home. Mr. Simpson was with them. He showed the police where we lived. They

 took my dad away because he had sold a steer without a permit. My dad spent three months in jail.

(As told to Shirley Bear, Alvina Dreaver is the daughter of Gilbert James Bear, and his wife Kathleen Maude, both deceased)