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SCCDSB Hosted Sessions for National Indigenous Peoples Month, June 2022

SCCDSB Staff Salve Making Session: Click on Poster to Register!

Salve Making with Janelle Nahmabin.pdf

Award Winning Music Group, Twin Flames, will share song and story with classes.

Twin Flames

Go Show the World with Wab Kinew & John Herrington

Wab Kinew and John Herrington (NASA) will talk together about Inspiring Indigenous People!

Anishinaabe Artist, Moses Lunham, Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, will be sharing story and painting with classes.

Youth Activist, Theland Kicknosway, Bkejwanong Territory will share what the summer solstice means to him, will connect with song, and share his hoop dancing.

Metis artist Brianna Lizotte who brought us the Metis Kitchen Party last year will be back with us for an interactive and fun time together to learn the red river jig and how sashes are made!

Check out this Kitchen Party Playlist created for us by Brianna!

Anishnaabe Artist Rhonda Snow will be sharing art pieces and their connection to Mother Earth as we celebrate the summer solstice and walking students through doodling and inspiring to create their own art piece by connecting with the story.

Click on link to register for the classroom all throughout June!

Education Days - Virtual - Summer Solstice FestivalsThe Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival (SSIF) helps Canadians of all walks of life to recognize the enormous contributions that Inuit, First Nations and Métis peoples have made to Canada.

Pow Wow Celebrations

Walpole Island First Nation 28th Annual Spring Pow Wow

May 21-22, 2022

Walpole Island Sports Complex

Walpole_Island_Spring_Pow_Wow_May_21_22_2022_FINAL_VERSION_April_27_2022.pdf

St. Clair College & Windsor University 1st Annual Alumni & Student Pow Wow - A Collaboration with SCCDSB and many organizations (see poster)

St. Clair College Sports Plex

June 3 for students

June 4 for all!

59th Annual Aamjiwnaang Pow Wow

June 18 - 19, 2022

Bear Park 1972 Virgil Ave, Sarnia

Kettle and Stony Point First Nation 50th Annual Pow Wow

July 9 - 10, 2022

Books in Schools connected to celebrations

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Indigenous Texts in Schools

Books in Schools

Inspiring Indigenous People Resources

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Resources for the classroom

Do you know what a powwow is? | Articles | CBC KidsA powwow is a celebration where Indigenous people dance, eat, sing and can buy or sell crafts. It's also a place for participants to show pride and respect for their culture.

Do you know what beading is? | Articles | CBC KidsBeading has a very long artistic and cultural history among the Indigenous people in Canada. At least 8,000 years before Europeans came to Canada, First Nations people were using beads in elaborate designs and for trade.

Hoop Dancing

Do you know what hoop dancing is? | Articles | CBC KidsHoop dancing is a form of storytelling through dance. An Indigenous hoop dancer uses hoops to create shapes that represent animals or symbols and designs and are sometimes put together to make spheres.

Anishinabek Nation Pow Wow Guide

Grades 5 - 12

2022PWGuide.pdf

This pdf contains 1-2 page stories to share in the classroom, pow wow etiquette, anishnaabemowin pow wow terms, the 2022 pow wow trail, and more!

Arts and CultureAs a mixed-heritage, two-spirit human being, I bridge worlds in many ways. I’ve been called a mediator, peacekeeper and playful entertainer. As an artist, one of my intentions is to express my truth while exploring the complexities of identity. I do this through music, visual art and storytelling, as Indigenous people have always done. In my experience, art is one of the best ways to create understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Like many Indigenous artists, I blend together the traditional and contemporary in my creative work. I form the contrast and the connection. Born in Fort Smith,

Arts et cultureEn tant qu’ être bispirituel à l’ héritage mixte, j’ oscille bien souvent entre deux mondes. On a dit de moi que j’ étais une médiatrice, une gardienne de la paix et une artiste enjouée. Par mon art, je cherche à exprimer ma réalité tout en explorant l’ identité dans toute sa complexité, et mes véhicules sont ceux des Autochtones depuis toujours : la musique, les arts visuels et le récit. L’ expérience m’ a appris que l’ art est l’ un des meilleurs instruments pour combler le fossé entre les peuples autochtones et non autochtones. Dans mes œuvres, comme dans celles de nombreux artistes autochtones,

CommunityI saw and heard the big drum for the first time when I was five years old. I loved it. It was 1988, and I had just entered kindergarten. My school back then was called St. Anne’s Elementary in Flat Bay, N.L. That school is gone now, with too few students in the community to sustain it. Flat Bay gets its name from a body of water sheltered by a strip of land known as Sandy Point. This sheltered harbour provided refuge from storms in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. As the Mi’kmaq people who would eventually become residents of the community of Flat Bay began their seasonal migrations into the interior,

CommunautéJ’ avais cinq ans la première fois que j’ ai vu et entendu le grand tambour. J’ ai adoré. C’ était en 1998, je venais de commencer la maternelle à l’ ancienne école primaire St. Anne’ s, située à Flat Bay, à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Cette école n’ existe plus aujourd’ hui, car il n’ y avait pas assez d’ élèves dans le secteur. Le village de Flat Bay a été nommé d’ après la baie adjacente, qui est protégée par une langue de terre appelée la pointe Sandy. Ce havre était ainsi à l’ abri des tempêtes du golfe du Saint-Laurent.

Dances Explained

Secondary Class Music for the Summer Solstice

Summer SolsticeReclaimed is the home to the next wave of Indigenous music on CBC. Combining past, present and future this series explores the many worlds of Indigenous music and introduces listeners to a new generation of Indigenous artists reclaiming their culture through music and song -- It’s the week of summer solstice, and it's Indigenous History Month. What are you doing to celebrate? What are you learning about the land where you live? In this time of reckoning - and especially throughout this month - there’s so much to come to terms with. With that said, this episode is focusing on Indigenous excellence and... on the light, the light of the longest days of the year. Celebrating Indigenous voices is something Reclaimed does every week of the year! And everytime the summer solstice comes around it's worth saying 'loud and proud': For Native people, every day is Indigenous Peoples Day -- Join host Jarrett Martineau as he celebrates Indigenous brilliance and creativity with songs to bring you a different kind of light during this summer solstice. Get ready to dance your way into the summer for Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous History Month and these longest days with the most light of the year.

Videos

Pow Wow Celebration, Bkejwanong Territory

K-2 Videos

CBC Kids: How to Pow Wow

It's My Party: TVO Kids National Indigenous People's Day

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Invited to a Pow Wow: TVO Kids

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French Videos

French K-2 Classrooms

Louis, Josée and Lexie : Aboriginal Dances: Shawl Dance - Video TFOTribal Vision dancers perform traditional Aboriginal dances. Lexie introduces the elegant women´s dance, the Shawl Dance.

French 3 - 6 Classrooms (french speaking and french subtitles)

The Pow-Wow - TFO 24.7Repressed between the mid-19th century and 1920, pow-wows are now the foremost First Nations` identity celebrations, occurring all over North America. Often c

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ONIVA! Episode on Indigenous Celebrations

Digital Activities below to connect with National Indigenous People's Month

The digital activities that follow are created by Jodie Williams, Gretchen Sands Gamble, Donna Indrakumaran, Tina De Castro, Troy Maracle, Jaclynn Deveaux-Matthews, C Ferrari . A special appreciation for sharing!

PRIMARY 2022 Indigenous History Month Game Board

FRENCH PRIMARY 2022 Indigenous History Month Game Board

Junior 2022 Heritage Month Game Board

FRENCH Junior 2022 Heritage Month Game Board

Secondary June Month

Continued Learning

National Indigenous History Month | seriesCelebrate Indigenous arts and culture with us in the month of June and beyond! Join us online and in-person to honour and engage with Indigenous artists through workshops, performances, discussions, podcasts, videos and more! “National Indigenous History Month is a time to reflect on and celebrate Indigenous peoples, their cultures and languages. It is also a time to educate ourselves about our shared history, and to find our role in making the future better for all of us.” Kevin Loring, Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre

Mois national de l’histoire autochtone | SérieEn juin et au-delà, célébrez avec nous les arts et les cultures autochtones. Venez découvrir – en personne ou en ligne – le travail d’artistes autochtones. Au programme, ateliers, spectacles, causeries, balados, vidéos et bien plus encore! « Le Mois national de l’histoire autochtone nous donne la chance de réfléchir aux cultures et aux langues des peuples autochtones et de les célébrer. C’est aussi une excellente occasion de mieux connaître notre histoire commune et de s’intéresser au rôle que nous devons jouer pour façonner...

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