Holidays & Canadiana

Canada’s Indigenous Peoples

• Confused about the various terms used to refer to indigenous peoples?  Here’s a two-minute video that helps clear things up:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEzjA5RoLv0
• This is a wonderful, gracious video of indigenous people welcoming newcomers to Canada:  https://youtu.be/NTyb0PI87Y4 with a helpful study guide:  https://issbc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Welcome-To-Canada-Study-Guide.pdf
• An interactive overview of Canada’s First Peoples (click on the map for interaction):    http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/index.html
• West Coast Reader: (see p. 9-12 in particular) http://www.bestofthereader.ca/Ebooks/Canada’s_Aboriginal_People.pdf
• ESL Library:  National Indigenous Peoples Day (Canada) (Look under Holidays & Events (CLB 5–6)
• Background information on the Nisga’a nation: 
  • https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nisgaa
  • https://www.nisgaanation.ca/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisga%27a
• Video from a previous festival:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rozRi2c4qW4
• Greetings lesson in the Nisga’a language:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCNNy9o7iNs