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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 F – Background Notes for the Teacher

Mi’kmaq country very quiet, no bustle; their Rivers make gentle murmur; trees sigh like young woman; everything beautiful.

– Peter Paul, 85, 1865

Student Learning

I will:

  • Explain how my community got its name
  • Explain how landforms describe my community
  • Identify major water forms in New Brunswick
  • Investigate the origin of an Indigenous community’s name
  • Create a poem, song, or speech about the effects on a community and its landforms if they are altered

Many of the origins of place names in New Brunswick are from Indigenous people. In the stories of Klu’skap Keluwoskap, for example, there are often explanations for landmarks. In other cases, place names have a historical origin. The geography of every community had a definite bearing on the culture, traditions, beliefs, attitudes, and ways of living of its people. This lesson focuses on the geography of communities and landmarks in New Brunswick starting with their names. Indigenous people understand that land is not owned by anyone. This is why land was non-ceded territory in any treaty negotiations. Although the communities of the Indigenous people in New Brunswick are present-day reserves, that is not the focus of this lesson.

Unidentied Indian Village 1895
Unidentified Indian Village 1895 – Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Leonard A. Allison P33-4

The place in this photo is not recorded. Do you know where it is? What land and water forms does it have? What different kinds of housing? What name, based on what you see, could you give it? (Esgenoôpetitj)

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