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Beausoleil First Nation, Grade 5

Big Ideas
CURRICULUM
CONNECTIONS Interactions between people have consequences that can be positive
for some people and negative for others.
The Ontario Curriculum (2018)
Social Studies Grades 1 to 6,
Framing Questions
History and Geography Grades
7 and 8 • What are some ways in which colonialism has shaped Canada?

Overall Expectations: A1. • Why might the same event have different impacts on
Analyze some key short- and different people?
long-term consequences of
• When thinking about the interactions between Indigenous
interactions among Indigenous
peoples, among Europeans, peoples and Europeans (prior to and during the 1700s), what are
and between Indigenous and some of the short-term positive and negative impacts?
European people prior to 1713
• Which impacts are long term and still visible in present-day
in what would eventually
local communities?
become Canada
Specific Expectations: A2.1
Formulate questions to guide
Background Information
investigations into aspects
of the interactions among Beausoleil First Nation Resource Book:
Indigenous peoples, among
Pages 7 to 11, Our Land. Beausoleil First Nation consists of three
Europeans, and between
Indigenous and European islands: Hope, Beckwith, and Christian Island. Christian Island is the
people in what would biggest and the only one where people live.
eventually become Canada,
Pages 12 to 15, History. These pages share the creation story for
from the perspectives of
various groups involved Turtle Island. They also outline the history of how people came to
live on Christian Island.

CONNECTIONS TO
LANGUAGE: Emotional (Relate) Activating Prior Knowledge,
land: aki (uh-kih) Minds On
treaty: nakiiwin nakiiwinan
Opening Circle
(nuh-kee-win nuh-kee-wih-nun)
If possible, invite an Elder into the classroom to share the Ojibwe
Turtle Island: Mskwaadesi Mnis
creation story. This authentic voice is best. You can also view the
(misk-waw-deh-sih mih-nis)
First Nations Literacy video on the Ojibwe creation story; link on
reserve: Shkoonjgan or
Ishkwanjigan (sh-konj-gun weblinks list.
ish-kwun-ji-gan); slang
Prompting Question:
meaning “leftovers”
• What personal connections do you make to the creation story?
Share ideas in an inside/outside circle.

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