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5 SOCIAL STUDIES: INTERACTIONS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND EUROPEANS

Government/Citizenship

HERITAGE AND IDENTITY

Books

Encounter

By: Brittany Luby ; illustrated by Michaela Goade
Call Number: E LUB
ISBN: 9780735265813
Publication Date: 2019

Encounter

By: Jane Yolen; David Shannon (Illustrator)
Call Number: E YOL
ISBN: 0152259627
Publication Date: 1992-04-15

The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened & How It Changed the World

By: Marc Aronson; John W. Glenn
Call Number: J 910.9 ARO
ISBN: 9780792264545
Publication Date: 2007-08-14
 

Looks like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids

By: Deborah Ellis; Loriene Roy (Foreword by)
Call Number: 305.23089 ELL
ISBN: 9781554981205
Publication Date: 2013-10-01

Explorers Who Made It....or died trying

By: Frieda Wishinsky
Call Number: J 910.92 WIS
ISBN: 9781443100106
Publication Date: 2011
 

Metis

By: Jennifer Howse
Call Number: J 970.004 HOW
ISBN: 9781553883371
Publication Date: 2008
Series: Canadian Aboriginal Art and Culture 

Radisson and des Groseilliers: Fur Traders of the North

By: Katharine Bailey
Call Number: J 971 BAI
ISBN: 9780778724223
Publication Date: 2006-03-15
Series: In the footsteps of explorers

Shannen and the Dream for a School

By: Janet Wilson
Call Number: J 971 WIL
ISBN: 9781926920306
Publication Date: 2011-10-01
Series: Kids' power book
 

Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation

By: Monique Gray Smith
Call Number: J 971.004 GRA
ISBN: 9781459815834
Publication Date: 2017-09-19

Champlain

By: Christopher Moore; Francis Back (Illustrator)
Call Number: J 910.92 MOO
ISBN: 9780887766572
Publication Date: 2004-08-24

First Nations and Early Explorers

By: Kathleen Corrigan
Call Number: J 971.004 COR
ISBN: 9781410981196
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Series: Canada through time
 

Life in an Anishinabe Camp

By: Bobbie Kalman; Niki Walker
Call Number: J 970.004 WAL
ISBN: 9780778703730
Publication Date: 2002-10-31
Series: Native nations of North America
 

Spirituality

By: Simon Rose
Call Number: J 970.004 ROS
ISBN: 9781773081229
Publication Date: 2017
Series: Indigenous life in Canada : past, present, future
 

First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Governance

By: Simon Rose
Call Number: J 971 ROS
ISBN: 9781773086095
Publication Date: 2020
Series: Understanding Canadian government and citizenship
 

Relationships with Aboriginal First Nations

By: Molly Jones
Call Number: J 970.004 JON
ISBN: 9781773080222
Publication Date: 2017
Series: Welcome to New France
 

Mi'Kmaq of the East Coast

By: Robert Leavitt
Call Number: J 970.004 LEA
ISBN: 9781550414691
Publication Date: 2000-02-15
Good for primary sources

Indigenous Relations in British North America

By: Heather C. Hudak
Call Number: J 970.004 HUD
ISBN: 9781773081472
Publication Date: 2018
Series: Welcome to British North America
 

Governance

By: Simon Rose
Call Number: J 970.004 ROS
ISBN: 9781773081199
Publication Date: 2017
Series: Indigenous life in Canada : past, present, future

Samuel de Champlain

By: Ellen Rodger
Call Number: J 910.9 ROD
ISBN: 9781773085913
Publication Date: 2020
Series: Explorers of Canada

Samuel de Champlain

By: Heather C. Hudak
Call Number: J 910.92 HUD
ISBN: 9781553880646
Publication Date: 2005
Series: Discovering Canada

IMAGE

Champlain in Georgian Bay (Lake Huron, Ontario), c. digital image of painting. Digital Archive, Toronto Public Library. 1895. digitalarchive.tpl.ca/internal/media/dispatcher/2143831/preview. Accessed 21 Mar. 2022.

Experiential Learning

Videos/Google Earth

Henry Hudson- PBS World Explorers Video

Samuel de Champlain- PBS World Explorers Video

John Cabot- PBS World Explorers Video

Christopher Columbus- PBS World Explorers Video

Google Earth: Explorers-Great Waters 

Websites

ARC GIS
Powerful mapping tool (subscription)

Native Land
Mapping resource for Indigenous territories.

PBS Learning
Various resources on European colonizers of North America

Williams Treaty First Nations
Website for First Nations of our area

Map of First Nations Languages of Canada

Government of Canada
Indigenous Peoples and Communities site

Statistics Canada
Indigenous Peoples stats

Canadian Museum of History
Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage

Databases