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Grade 3 – Table of contents

  • Teaching Notes and Approaches
  • Note to Readers
  • Lesson A – Where did we come from?
    Tami wejita’ywkw?
    Tama kilun ktutapeksultipon?
    • Curriculum Outcomes
    • Background Notes for the Teacher
    • Activity 1- How Klu’scap Keluwoskap Created People
    • References
  • Lesson B – All things are related: Interrelationships are celebrated
    Msit koqowe’l akutultikl
    Psonakutomuwakon
    • Curriculum Outcomes
    • Background Notes for the Teacher
    • Activity 1 – About Wolastoq
    • Activity 2 – The Creation of Wolastoq
    • Activity 3A – Mapping Wolastoqey Communities
    • Activity 3B – Mapping Mi’kmaw Communities
    • Activity 4A – Wolastoq (Saint John River) is Renamed
    • Activity 4B – The Sipoq River Song (Listuguj)
    • References
  • Lesson C – We are of the Earth
    Kinu na wskwitqamulti’kw
    Nutapeksipon Nkitahkomikumon
    • Curriculum Outcomes
    • Background Notes for the Teacher
    • Activity 1 – Flag Symbols
    • Activity 2 – Flags to Create Solidarity
    • Activity 3 – Create Your Own Flag
    • References
  • Lesson D – All My Relations
    Ta’n Te’sit No’kmaq
    Psi-te Ntolonapemok
    • Curriculum Outcomes
    • Background Notes for the Teacher
    • Activity 1 – Who Are You?
    • Activity 2 – Extended Family
    • References
  • Lesson E – Life as we knew it
    Mimajuaqn ta’n tel-nenmekip
    Pomawsuwakon Eli-Kcicihtuweqpon
    • Curriculum Outcomes
    • Background Notes for the Teacher
    • Activity 1 – The Many Functions of Water
    • Activity 2 – Keluwoskap (Gal-oo-wos-gob) and the Water Creature
    • Activity 3 – To Dam Or Not To Dam
    • Activity 4 – Mactaquac Dam
    • Activity 5 – Ugpi’ganjig Eel River Bar First Nation
    • References
  • Lesson F – Coming Together
    Mawita’nej
    Mawessultipon
    • Curriculum Outcomes
    • Background Notes for the Teacher
    • Activity 1 – Storytelling
    • Activity 2 – What Is In A Name?
    • Activity 3 – Creating a Landform of your Community
    • Activity 4 – Researching an Indigenous Community
    • References
  • Lesson G – What is a Treaty?
    Koqowey net Ankukumkewey?
    Keq nit lakutuwakon?
    • Curriculum Outcomes
    • Background Notes for the Teacher
    • Activity 1 – Sharing and Showing Respect
    • Activity 2 – Wampum
    • Activity 3 – Create Your Own Message
    • References
  • Lesson H – Your Treaty
    Ktankukumeweymuow
    Ktolakutuwakon
    • Curriculum Outcomes
    • Background Notes for the Teacher
    • Activity 1 – Classroom Treaty
    • Activity 2 – Create a Fair Classroom Treaty
    • Resources
  • Lesson I – We Are All Treaty People
    Kinu na Ankukumkeweye’k Mimajuinu’k
    Psi-te kilun Lakutuwakonicik
    • Curriculum Outcomes
    • Background Notes for the Teacher
    • Activity 1 – We are all Treaty People
    • Resources
  • Resources
  • Interactive Activities
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Activity 3A – Mapping Wolastoqey Communities

Now look at the map underneath which shows New Brunswick.

Map of the Saint John River
Map of the Saint John River (Wolastoq)

See if you can find the six Wolastoqey communities which are along Wolastoq. From the chart below, read the names of the original communities. Use the photos of Wolastoq. What do these photos tell you about how the ‘Beautiful River’ looks? Using the photographs, place the class into groups to write a short description of each picture. Then try having the class make their own map legend to show these physical descriptions. Have the whole class compare what others have said about their photo. Then, with the class, agree on a map legend to show these physical descriptions. View the map of New Brunswick on a SMART Board. Place the legend on the river of the N.B. map (below).

Or

Go on to a Google Earth map and look at the area where the school or community is located. Each person can make a plasticine map on a 8½” x 11″ sheet of paper of the contours of the river near where the school or community is located, using 3 different colours – brown for earth, green for trees and vegetation, and blue for water. Layer the map showing its elevation. Use the map legend to show the colours.

Which community does this map show? Where was the original village located?

map of the American Nation Boundary Dispute 1906
http://www.acadian-cajun.com/madawaska.htm
Wolastokuk – Maliseet Homeland
English Wolastoqey Latuwewakon Definition
Madawaska Matawaskiyak
(possible origin of the place name Madawaska)
At the place where water flows out over grass
Tobique Neqotkuk A place where one river flows under another river
Woodstock
(Woodstock First Nation is the second site for this group of Wolastoqewiyik people. The first site was downriver near the community of Meductic)
Wotstak
(the Woodstock First Nation community was originally established at Meductic)
End of the trail
Kingsclear Pilick The village
St. Mary’s Sitansisk The place of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Fredericton to Silverwood area Eqpahak At head of tide on river
Oromocto Welamukotuk A good fishing place
The original flag of the ‘People of the Beautiful and Bountiful River.’
This is the original flag of the ‘People of the Beautiful and Bountiful River.’ Recently the Wolastoq Grand Council has reintroduced this flag for its communities.

Wolastoqewiyik were also known as people of the muskrat. The muskrat was used for food and fur. Its habitat produced medicine. The ‘double curve’ designs on the canoe are meaningful to Waponahkik. These designs were found in caves. It is a pattern found often in nature like the coil of a fiddlehead, or the path animals take when bedding down so that any animal following must, while following the spiral path, come upwind of them.

Colours

  • Red symbolizes Ancestors who have gone before us
  • Green symbolizes the earth and all vegetation
  • Blue symbolizes all water life – rivers, brooks, streams, lakes and oceans

The red rodent is a Muskrat. Wolastoqewiyik followed the muskrat for guidance to medicine and also used the muskrat for food and fur.

  • Red female and male canoeists represent Wolastoqewiyik (Maliseet)
  • Yellow symbolizes the Sun which gives us light and helps all vegetation and life to grow
Wolastoqewiyik at Kingsclear celebrating Corpus Christi Day 1887

Left to Right:

  1. http://chrs.ca/the-rivers/st-john/
  2. https://mainerivers.org/watershed-profiles/st-john-river/
  3. http://www.travelinnewbrunswick.com/St-John-River-Valley.cfm
  4. https://johnwood1946.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/st-john-river-andover-to-fredericton
  5. http://chrs.ca/the-rivers/st-john/
  6. Wolastoqewiyik at Kingsclear celebrating Corpus Christi Day 1887 NB Public Archives P5-279
  7. https://www.britannica.com/place/Saint-John-River-North-America
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