Foundational Knowledge for Indigenous Education

Students will learn about Inuit constellations and to describe the role of celestial objects in the traditions and beliefs of selected cultures and civilizations.

This article highlights five Indigenous farming practices that have helped shape sustainable farming systems and practices all over the world.

By decoding the DNA of the beaked hazelnut, a team of scientists is providing new insight into how ancestral Indigenous peoples stewarded plants across the province.

Learn about the Indigenous practice of harvesting wild rice in Canada and it is prepared for storage so it can kept and traded.

For many Indigenous communities, three seeds - corn, beans, and squash represent the most important crops. When planted together, the Three Sisters, work together to help one another thrive and survive.

Prior to being removed from their traditional lands to reserves in the late 1800s Indigenous Peoples used controlled burns to manage the forests and rangeland. The timing and location of the fires were based on the traditional knowledge about their territories accumulated over millennia. These managed fires were an important component of their stewardship of the land.

For millenia, fire was integral to many Indigenous peoples’ way of life. Fire was a tool that promoted ecological diversity and reduced the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

Prescribed fire is a colonial adaptation of cultural burning practiced by many different Indigenous groups in Canada. Learn about the differences.

For millennia, Indigenous communities have maintained forest gardens, a type of historically managed ecosystem, along the Pacific Northwest coast.

Prior to contact, indigenous peoples used fire to modify the landscape. The "untouched, pristine" wilderness of North America was the result of the Indigenous use of fire, creating an mosaic of grasslands and forests across North America

This video explains some of the benefits of wildfire. Due to the way they grow, some trees (like lodgepole pines) need fire to survive. Learn about how wildfires contribute to the ecosystem.

Learn about a Canadian government project to learn more about why the Three Sister works so well together in agriculture and ways their growth could be more optimized.

This web publication has the purpose to describe and to reference the published literature on traditional animal foods known and used by Indigenous Peoples of northern North America. We present information on the locations of the cultures whose peoples have used, and often continue to use, these foods.

This article examines traditional Indigenous farming in Southern Ontario which has been practiced for more than 1000 years.

Information about the Inuit names and uses of stars and constellations.

Aaron Yazzie, member of the Navajo Nation, is a Mechanical Engineer for NASA in California. He helps design, build and develop Robotic systems that go into space and study our solar system.

Throughout the video you will learn about the importance of Water Walks, how they started, and the difference between Mother Earth Water Walkers and Junior Water Walkers.

A complimentary guide for educators to deepen their foundational knowledge and foster reconciliation.