Canada History Week 2021 Learning Tool

ONLINE RESOURCES Photo courtesy Bernard Breton/749253/Dreamstime.com). 3 We recommend the following bilingual research resources to support educators and students when using this guide’s activities. You may also choose to seek out supplementary resources. NOTE ON LANGUAGE First Nations peoples in Canada were called “Indians” by European settlers. This term is now recognized as derogatory and is rarely used, except in some legal and historical documents. “Indian Residential School” is similarly a historical term used by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and in educational documents. This guide uses “Indian Residential School” and “residential school” interchangeably to describe the system of boarding schools, day schools, hostels, and other institutions that First Nations, Métis, and Inuit were forced to attend. “Aboriginal” is a legal term that encompasses all Status and Non-Status First Nations, Métis, and Inuit. Though “Aboriginal” and “Indigenous” are sometimes used interchangeably, we have used “Indigenous” in this education guide. • Canada History Week 2021 videos and digital magazine • The Indigenous Peoples Collection on The Canadian Encyclopedia • Historica Canada’s Indigenous Peoples YouTube playlist • Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action This guide is by no means comprehensive of all Indigenous history in what is now known as Canada but is meant to complement the subjects and themes represented in the Canada History Week 2021 videos and to provide context for those topics. For more activities relating to Indigenous history, see our Indigenous Perspectives Education Guide; Voices from Here Education Guide; Residential Schools in Canada: History and Legacy Education Guide; and Treaties in Canada Education Guide. Find further educational resources on the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation website.