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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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Lesson A – Background Notes for the Teacher

Student Learning

I will:

  • Explain the respectful relationship between Grandmother (Groundhog) and Grandson (Keluwoskap)
  • Explain Keluwoskap’s respect for the environment
  • Recite some words in Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey Latuwewakon
  • Illustrate the story of Keluwoskap
  • Examine images for symbolic significance
Roger Simon, Elsipotog, Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik Centre, University of New Brunswick

This first lesson on Treaty Education deals with the understanding of respect and taking responsibility. It focuses on a respectful relationship between a Grandmother and Grandson. It also demonstrates how Keluwoskap respectfully used natural elements by taking only what he needed to craft a bow and arrow. It presents the traditional values of respect, honour and being connected. It deals with how people honoured and interacted with their environment and the relationships that formed as a result. Among Waponahkewiyik (Wabanaki People) – Wolastoqewiyik, Mi’kmaq, Passamoquoddy, Penobscot and the Abenaki, respect, honour and being connected are three of the principles on which the first confederacy of these nations was based. The Waponahkewiyik had a Creation story about the creation of people that was passed orally from generation to generation. The details from other Creation stories can be compared with this one. It is Important in retelling this story that it be given due respect as it represents a belief system and not a legend or a folk tale.

“From the beginning of the world to the present, we, Mik’maq (Wolastoqewiyik and Passamoquoddy) have been here. Since time immemorial, our forefathers occupied and used these lands. This is our land, this is our home, for we claim no other. We were placed here by the Great Spirit.”

Daniel Paul, author of First Nation History. We Were Not the Savages, 2006

A glossary at the end of the story lists the words phonetically. It is hoped that the teacher will a) read the story initially in English b) read the story again while using the glossary of the language used in the community where the story is being presented.

Evaluation

At the end of the lesson, have students, in small groups, read the book How Keluwoskap Created People as told by Ron Tremblay and illustrated by Natalie Sappier. This book was provided to all schools in the province by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Ask each group what does respect and taking responsibility mean to them. Together make a class definition and post it on the wall under the heading – The First Treaty is with Our Earth Mother.

8 Pointed Star
8 Pointed Star, Bedford Barrens Petroglyph Kejimkujik National Park – Nova Scotia Museum

What could this petroglyph represent?

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