The NLPS Indigenous Learning Team is dedicated to creating a meaningful and successful learning experience for all Indigenous students while also supporting the greater learning community in continuing and strengthening our value and respect of Indigenous cultures, histories, knowledge, languages, skills and people as an integral part of our learning.
If you have any questions or or concerns please reach out to the school-based staff members at your school or other relevant district staff members.
District Pincipal: Indigenous Learning
Learning Coordinator: Indigenous Learning
Coordinator: Indigenous Learning
District Assistant: Indigenous Learning 250.741.5318
District ICSSW Coordinator
Ladysmith Secondary
Dover Bay Secondary
Nanaimo District Secondary
John Barsby
Bayview Elementary + Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓
Wellington Secondary
Learning Alternatives (Woodlands)
Indigenous Culture and student Support Workers are staffed at each school. Please contact the school or Patti McCarthy for contact information.
Most students in the small arctic community of Kaktovic, Alaska grow up speaking Iñupiaq. They found doing math using Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3,4, 11, 12, etc) difficult because they didn’t match with their Inupiaq words for numbers. In this thinking task, students will explore arithmetic operations written with Kaktovic numerals to try and figure out how their numeral system works.
Spoiler: it is not a base 10 system!
The NLPS hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ Studio holds a compilation of online learning activities with sound for hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ language learners.
A collection of articles, videos, timelines and educational guides from the Canadian Encyclopedia.
North Star chronicles the exceptional journey of Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, a young, Quebec-born Innu astrophysicist who’s leading a massive research project at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Drawing on a worldview rooted in a love of nature, as well as her talents as a science communicator, Laurie shares her passion for the study of celestial objects.
Incudes a study guide.
This links to the National Film Board of Canada website.
Music is a universal language, one we can use to learn about history, culture, and identity. This playlist features films that highlight the bounty of Indigenous music from Canada. French Version available.
This game is designed to be a practice activity for using the rise and run to plot linear equations. It is embedded with information related to an important Coast Salish cultural plant.
The following are Coast Salish stories available online from various sources.
Lessons and other linked content:
Celestine Aleck
(Snuneymuxw)
Celestine Aleck
(Snuneymuxw)
Celestine Aleck
(Snuneymuxw)
Mabel Mitchel
(Stz’uminus)
Terra Morris & Ruby Peter
(Quw’utsun)
Ruby Peter
(Quw’utsun)
Ruby Peter
(Quw’utsun)
Ruby Peter
(Quw’utsun)
lessLIE
(Quw’utsun)
Ed Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
George Squtxulenuhw Seymour
(Stz’uminus)
Jared Qustenuxun Williams
(Quw’utsun)
Jared Qustenuxun Williams
(Quw’utsun)
Jared Qustenuxun Williams
(Quw’utsun)
Jared Qustenuxun Williams
(Quw’utsun)
Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun
(Snuneymuxw)
Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun
(Snuneymuxw)
Nanaimo-Ladysmith Public Schools are excited to launch a new series featuring a Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ phrase of the week. These phrases have been provided by the Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ teachers of NLPS to share with educators, students and the larger community so that we can continue our learning journey together with the language of the land. Click on the images to play a short video clip and hear each phrase.
The Salish Weave collection was donated to NLPS by the University of Victoria. Each piece of Coast Salish art tells it’s own story which can be embedded into any subject area to help form a rich learning experience for students.
The collection has been divided into themes with various pieces and activities. To take a closer look, please click here. The collection can be signed out to schools via the Indigenous Education Collection in Destiny. To order, please contact districtcollections@sd68.bc.ca.
A sample of the Salish Weave Collection. This art is solely for educational purposes and should not be reproduced.
The following lesson plans were created by Cowichan Valley.
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