Here are some helpful resources that can be included in your classrooms and school assemblies to honour our Indigenous Veterans.

Attached Documents:

• PowerPoint presentation that can be used in Remembrance Day gatherings.
• Word document is a speech that can be read by a student, administrator, or any staff member.
• The speech and slide show should both be started at the same time and is about 3 minutes in length.  The slides are set to advance automatically.  Please feel free to share this with whoever you think might use it.

• PDF Thunderbird poppy activity – which would be good for younger students. Design created by Cowichan artist Stuart Pagaduan.

Online Links:

• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada an Info Page about Indigenous Veterans and includes some suggested activities.

• There is a fabulous wealth of information on the Aboriginal Veterans website and there is even more, including student specific activities, on the Veterans Affairs Canada link for Aboriginal Veterans.

Indigenous Resource Collection: (available to loan via Destiny)

• Remembrances : Metis veterans : interviews with Metis veterans. [ Book ] FN0524, Published 1997

• Aboriginal war veterans. Secondary [ Kit ] FN1661, Published 2010

• Aboriginal war veterans. Elementary. [ Book ] FN1662, Published 2010

• When the Spirits Dance [Book] FN 1524, Published 2006
• Pegahmagabow: Life-Long Warrior [Book] FN , Published 2003
• Recommended Novel: Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII Paperback – Aug 7 2012  by Chester Nez (Author), Judith Schiess Avila (Author) – good for staff/older students who would like to learn more about the code talkers.