LibGuides: Indigenous Resources: English Language Arts and Storytelling Resources

Aboriginal Literatures in Canada: A Teacher's Resource Guide
This document gives an overview of major Aboriginal groups in Canada and their literature.

PBS Circle of Stories
A comprehensive resource outlining Indigenous story telling practices and history. There is an excellent educators guide on this site, as well.

Voices of the Canoe
A cross cultural exploration of photographs, maps, stories and cross cultural resources exploring the importance of the canoe in the Fijian, Haida and Squamish indigenous groups.

First Nations Pedagogy Online
Resources about First Nations storytelling and storytelling structures.

Our Voices, Our Stories
Story telling primary and secondary sources curated by Library and Archives Canada.

Aboriginal Children's Literature
A Libguide created by the UBC library linking you to resources to help find and evaluate aboriginal children's literature resources.

Fern Gabriel is a member of the Kwantlen First Nations. In this story she tells of how the salmon in the Fraser River were once much more bountiful than today. Gabriel is a member of the a business group that runs Kwantlen walking tours.

English First Peoples 10, 11, and 12 First Peoples Course Resource

English First Peoples 10, 11, and 12 First Peoples Course Resource
Developed by the First Nations Educational Steering Committee this resources provides resources and content to support the First Peoples course in Grades 10-12, but the resources are also useful for other strands of the English 10-12 curriculum.

Cloudwalker by Roy Henry Vickers (Illustrator); Robert Budd
Call Number: 398.2 VIC
ISBN: 9781550176193
Publication Date: 2014-05-24
In this legend, a Gitksan Indian hunter tries to catch a group of swans and is carried away by the birds and dropped on the clouds. He wanders with a cedar box of water and spills the contents and when he returns to earth he finds lakes and rivers which weren't there before.
The Shadows That Rush Past by Rachel A. Qitsualik; Larry MacDougall (Illustrator); Emily Fiegenschuh (Illustrator)
Call Number: 398.20 QIT
ISBN: 9781926569468
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
Presents a collection of four Inuit folktales.
People of the Land by Susan A. Point (Contribution by); Tewanee Joseph (Introduction by); Aaron Nelson-Moody (Artist); Glenn George (Artist)
Call Number: 398.2089 PEO
ISBN: 9781894778770
Publication Date: 2009-12-22
A photo-illustrated collection of stories that relates the sacred teachings of the Lil'wat, Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peole of British Columbia.
The First Mosquito by written and illustrated by Caroll Simpson
Call Number: 813.6 SIM
ISBN: 9781772030631
Brothers of the Wolf by written and illustrated by Caroll Simpson
Call Number: 813.6 SIM
ISBN: 9781772030389
The Salmon Twins by written and illustrated by Caroll Simpson
Call Number: 813.6 SIM
ISBN: 9781927527009