Quills Theme: Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Land Acknowledgement Workshop
Students learn how to construct a meaningful, personalized, land acknowledgement in which they articulate the ways in which they are actively working towards reconciliation and striving to live in reciprocity with the land in a manner that will protect it for the next 7 generations.
- Bundle: Indigenous Knowledge
Land-Based Meditation
Students engage in a land-based meditation reflecting on how they can live in reciprocity with the land. Following this, teacher leads a discussion with students regarding the nature of the Original Instructions that are transmitted through the land to Indigenous peoples.
- Bundle: Indigenous Knowledge
Creation Stories and Language
Students listen to the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee creation stories and reflect on how these stories have shaped Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee culture. Students learn about how Indigenous ways of knowing and being are contained in Indigenous languages and the impact of colonization on language loss.
- Bundle: Indigenous Knowledge
Ohèn:ton Karihwatéhkwen (The Words that Come Before All Else)
Students learn the Ohèn:ton Karihwatéhkwen and reflect on how it positions humans in a rich, interdependent web of relationships with elements in the natural world. As an extension students journal in an outdoor sit spot about what they are grateful for in nature.
- Bundle: Indigenous Knowledge
Culminating Activity: Entering into Relationship with our Plant Relatives
Taking inspiration from Ra’nikonhrí:io Lazare and Katsenhaién:ton Lazare, students will create their own videos that capture our relationships with a specific plant. Duration: Over multiple work periods
- Bundle: Gifts of the Earth
Living in Reciprocity with All Our Relations
Students explore the meaning of All Our Relations and interdependence by creating a community web that demonstrates these important concepts. Students will also explore how many of the things they depend on in their everyday lives come from the natural world.
- Bundle: Gifts of the Earth