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Dr. Martin Brokenleg - "The Circle of Courage"
December 7, 2005 PD internet resources
as presented at the Winnipeg School Division Central District PD

Dr. Brokenleg referred to the Circle of Courage web site. Dr. Martin Brokenleg spoke about the 4 levels of courage as fond in The Circle of Courage  Philosophy . The telephone number is 1-800-285-7910 and the email is contact@compassionpublishing.com

Dr. Brokenleg referred to the Search Institute at many points of information.

The Peopling of Canada - Aboriginal / First Nations / Native Studies links 

Dying Tongues September 2003 

These websites are from the Forum Communications that publish the Fargo Forum, and own WDAZ Grand Forks and WDAY Fargo. They had this a main link on their web page to support the TV series in September, 2003.

As a WSD educational priority is Aboriginal Education, these IT resources can be included in a study of the history and current issues research of students on relevant topics.

Main Page: http://www.in-forum.com/specials/DyingTongues

The languages of the Mandan,  Hidatsa, and  Arikara are fading into silence, one voice at a time, as fluent elderly speakers die.

Language Family Trees: http://www.in-forum.com/specials/DyingTongues/graphics/ltrees.pdf

Graphs for Native Speaking Languages: http://www.in-forum.com/specials/DyingTongues/graphics/speakers.pdf

Teachers can apply the above and have students create a similar graph and family trees for the Manitoba languages.  The use of Excel and PowerPoint will include IT with the topic. 

University of Manitoba / Anthropology 12,000 years of Native history

1. Overview
2. Palaeo 10000 to 6000 B.C.
3. Western Plano 8000 -4500 B.C.
4. Northern Plano 6000 - 4000 B.C.
5. Eastern Plano  6000 - 4000 B.C.
6. Archaic 6,000 B.C. - A.D. 1
7. Arctic Small Tools 2000 - 800 B.C.
8. Taltheilei 750 B.C. - A.D. 1000
9. Woodland 200 B.C. - A.D. 1750
10. Dorset 800 B.C. - A.D. 800
11. Thule   A.D. 1000 - 1700
12. Post Contact
13. the Glossary
14. Manitoba Sites Caribou Lake  Cherry Point  Wanipigow  Stott

University of Alberta / Native Studies Faculty 

1. University of Alberta School of Native Studies
2. Native Studies Internet Resources

Canadian Museum of Civilization 

1. Link to Native Studies / Aboriginal 
2. First Nations
3. Grand Hall: Northwest Coast Native culture
4. In Memoriam: Bill Reid (1920-1998)
5. Stones Unturned
6. People of the Salmon
7. Threads of the Land: Clothing Traditions from Three Indigenous Cultures
8. Wave Eaters: Native Watercraft in Canada
9. The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic: From Ancient Times to 1902
10. Storytelling: The Art of Knowledge
11. Legends of Our Times: Native Ranching and Rodeo Life on the Plains and Plateau
12. Where Sea and Land Meet: Historical Northwest Coast Native settings in the art of Gordon Miller and Bill Holm
13. From Time Immemorial: Tsimshian Prehistory
14. The Haida: Children of Eagle and Raven
15. Iqqaipaa: Celebrating Inuit Art, 1948-1970
16. Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples' Photographic Perspectives
17. Moccasins
18. Inuit 3D
19. The Canoe- Portraits of the Great Fur Trade Canoes
20. A History of Native People

INAC / Indian and Northern Affairs

1. Indian and Northern Affairs (INAC)
2. Kids' Stop
3. Schools online West 
4. Aboriginal Awareness
5. Terminology Guide
6. Culture and History
7. Art, Culture  & History
8. Indian and Inuit Art
9. Aboriginal Canada Portal

National Aboriginal Day June 21 - First Nations, Métis and Inuit

National Aboriginal Day

LOCATION :Winnipeg, MB

DATE / TIME: June 21 - All Day Event

ACTIVITY: National Aboriginal Day Celebration

BRIEF DESCRIPTION
- Sunrise Ceremony
- Pancake breakfast (Friendship Centre)
- Parade featuring traditional dancers (Friendship Centre to the Forks)
- Aboriginal performers
- Display of new NAD posters and promotional materials
- Fireworks display at the Forks

Métis National Council 

AYN - Aboriginal Youth Network 

Assembly of First Nations 

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami 

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples    Native Web Site Links Database 

School Net / First Nations

Native Links

Cree of Northern Quebec

Native Web

1. First Nations of the New-France era  
2. Nations Index
3. Plains Indians

National Library of Canada

Confederation

Confederation for Kids

The history of Native American Canada Hartford.  A series of documents on current issues.

Earth Observatory

Fire on the Great Plains image here.  Before European colonization of North America’s Great Plains, spring and summer fires, triggered both by lightning and by Native Americans who used the fires to drive game, would race across the prairies, suppressing invasion from woody plants and hastening the germination of new grass seeds.

A History of the Native People of Canada - Civilization Museum web site (new - October, 2006) starts at 10,000 BC, preview the index page to start information gathering.