1. This class has fully been developed under the advisory of a Manitoba, Canada Provincial middle years teacher specializing in social studies and history.
2. This class meets all social studies/history requirements for a Manitoba, Canada middle years class.
3. This class is a full curriculum and is ready to be taught in a Manitoba, Canada middle years class.
4. I have a double major from university. One of these majors is in conflict resolution with a heavy focus on truth and reconciliation of Canada's past, present and future towards indigenous people and other minority groups. This gives me a wide perspective of Canada's history and the need to give a well rounded perspective of how Canada came to be a country.
5. I am also part of a minority group which gives me lived experience and the need to represent a full perspective.
6. The history of Canada would not be complete without including all groups of people who have helped shape it to be what it is now. This is why I have included people from many sides of the story in this class.
7. Canada has a very different history than many other countries. There is always more work to be done. Canada is unique because each of us (especially children in schools) are heavily involved in working on truth and reconciliation.  All of us have a part to play and I hope that this class can help with that. 
8.  Some conversations will be kept to an age appropriate level and because of time limitations questions may be referred back to the grown ups in the home. However, conversations will always be well rounded and discussed from everyone's point of view.  If questions arise I will make sure to get students to consider both sides of the situation and what each group of people may have been feeling at this time. I live in Canada where these questions and issues arise frequently and I will use that knowledge as well as information found in the below link to help guide discussion.

Homework Offered
Students have the option of creating a weekly journal. This journal can be done in many creative ways. Suggestions are writing, doodling, art through any medium, writing a song, making a comic strip, making a lego scene, animation, poetry and much more. I can help students come up with their own ideas in class to utilize their creativity and potential. 
Assessments Offered
Grades Offered

Some examples of sources used are:
Heritage Moments
History Curriculum for grade 6 in Canada
Historica Canada 
The Canada Guide 
Canada’s History
MacLeans Magazine

The people we will study in this class gives a well rounded view of how Canada came to be. However, given the time we have there is still much more to learn. To continue learning about the history of Canada from the Indigenous point of view please refer to these sources or feel free to ask about more sources on specific topics. 

This Place: 150 Years Retold by  Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and 19 more 
Children of the Broken Treaty (Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream) by Charlie Angus
Clearing the Plains (Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life) by Daschuk, James W.
Surviving Canada (Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal) 
Indigenous Writes (A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada) by Vowel, Chelsea
Residential Schools (The Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Findings and Calls for Action) by Florence, Melanie



Additional information on Chief Tecumseh will be found from Valour Canada and Canada A Country as well as the following novels.

A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh by Allan W. Eckert
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America's Heartland by Peter Cozzens 
Chief Tecumseh by Anne M. Todd
Tecumseh's Last Stand by John Sugden