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Cross-Curricular Ideas
Health and Physical Education: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education
Resource: Engaging Learners Through Play. Elementary Teachers’
Federation of Ontario. July 2017. Protect the Treasure, page 41:
This game is designed to show how power imbalances can affect
outcomes. Ready, Set, Play: Guard Ball, p. 43: The big idea here is
the impact of treaties on the relationships of Indigenous and non-
Indigenous peoples.
The Arts: Role-play/recreate treaty negotiations in the past and
what they might look like today. Blanket Exercise: Physically recreate
“sharing” the land (need a trained person to run this). For more
information on the Blanket Exercise, see the Kairos Canada website;
link on weblinks list

Mathematics: Ask students to measure treaty areas in different units,
comparing unit references in treaties—league, miles, acres.
SOURCES
Snache, I. (2005). Rama First
Nation Ojibwe Language
Dictionary. Chippewas of Rama.
Ogemawahj Tribal Council.
(2019). Moose Deer Point First
Nation Resource Book. Nelson.
We Are All Treaty People video;
link on weblinks list
Treaty map for Ontario; link
on weblinks list

SUGGESTIONS FOR
FURTHER READING/
VIEWING
The Robinson Huron Treaty:
a brief history video; link on
weblinks list
First Nations, Métis & Inuit
Education Association of
Ontario, In Our Words; link on
weblinks list
We Are All Treaty People kit
order form; link on weblinks list

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