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Home / Resources / Indigenous Understandings

Subject: Indigenous Understandings

NFB Series – North Star

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

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NFB – Indigenous Film Traditions

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

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Our Teacher

Coast Salish carver Beau Wagner honors his late teacher’s wish by carving a canoe on Gabriola Island with local elementary school students.Starring Beau Wagner, Patrick Aleck, Antonio Gradanti,Directed by Phillip

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Basket Woman Word Taboo

The  game along with instructions is also available as a digital card set here. Each team can also access the cards via a smart device by scanning the QR code below.

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Halloween Bingo – Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓

Learn a few spooky words in Hul?q?umi?n?um? with sound voiced by George Squtxulenuhw Seymour. Printable Student Bingo Cards with draw cards Virtual Student bingo  cards for computer (also available for iPads

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Camas & the Garry Oak Ecosystem

Garry oak ecosystems, once a prominent feature of the pre-contact landscape of Coast Salish territories, were carefully tended gardens and farms growing spe:nxw (camas) as well as other edible and

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QQS Playground Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ Bingo

This activity is meant to accompany the Hul?q?umi?n?um? QQS Playground Bingo game in Nanaimo-Ladysmith Public Schools.  Learn the vocabulary in the classroom and then head outside to see what you can

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Ecosystem Guide

A Hul’q’umi’num’ language guide to plants and animals of southern Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the Salish Sea. *** Note, the orthography (spelling system) used in this guide is

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Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ Phonics

Sound Basics for English Speakers There are multiple orthographies (spelling systems) that are used to spell words in hul?q?umi?n?um?. The one used at NLPS is a phonetic system and once

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I see shxunutun – Dual Language Books

  This  dual language book, two children find mysterious gigantic shx?un?utun (tracks) on the ground and wonder what creature might have made them. The book is available online or as

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Indigenous Veterans Day

National Indigenous Veterans Day is a memorial day observed in Canada in recognition of aboriginal contributions to military service, particularly in the First and Second World Wars and the Korean

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Native Plants on the South Coast

A great set of videos and information about native plants from the Royal BC Museum, including videos about how to tell the difference between western red cedar and yellow cedar.

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Nancy Turner, Ethobotanist

How are sword-ferns, whale hunting and bull kelp all connected? In this short video, Dr. Nancy Turner talks about some of the knowledge she has learned from her decades of

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