Indigenous Cultures

An inquiry project on FNMI groups in Canada

Historical Cultures as another country

Questions

• Do today's media recognize the diversity of First Nations?
• What do stories, legends, and art tell about the culture of the First Nations groups who created them?
• How did environments influence the items and culture that FNMI groups created?

Questions contd..

• What were the different ways in which FNMI societies were structured?
• Your own - see me

Appreciate and explore First Nations culture prior to and after European contact.

Produce oral media with well-developed and well-linked ideas and sections

A Podcast...

Good sources, Research Skills and Historical thinking are rewarded.

Steps

• Pick a grouping (2-3) (unique)
• Choose a question
• Research and answer
• Revisit and refine x2/x3
• Compile and record
• Submit - Schoology - Oct 10th. as a QR code, or an audio file link (drive)

Suggestions

• Look up and phone/email an expert
• listen to a podcast
• specialize and diversify, then compile; don't all do the same thing at the same time
• Fake it till you make it
• refine your question
• use stories to illustrate facts