Check out this document for great websites to help you with your teaching, and knowledge of residential schools and aboriginal history in Canada. There are also some examples of reconciliation.

What’s next…Reconciliation?

Check out these links for some ideas:

FNESC Indian Residential School Teacher Resource Guides

In every SD 71 Comox Valley elementary school library there is a kit titled Residential School with Grade 5 Teacher Guide with 6 supporting novels / picture books.

Reconciliation and Education – Starleigh Grass TEDx

First Nation Child Family and Caring Society of Canada

Orange Shirt Day

Have a Heart Day

Legacy of Hope

Many resources found on this website including survivor stories, Our Stories, Our Strength – please preview them before you show them to your students

Where are the Children

Check out the diversity of Aboriginal Languages, practise some word from our local community language. Kwak’wala (found on the app) and Island K’omoks – Sliammon found on the app would the Mainland Comox language and would be the closest language relative to what was the traditional language in the K’omoks area)

First Voices

Kwak’wala App