1. Creation and Canada’s First Peoples
Turtle Island:
Creation and Canada’s First Peoples

2. What do you know and wonder about Canada’s First People?
Things I Know…
Things I Wonder…
Things I Have Learned…
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3. Indigenous of North America: Many Distinct Groups
Tribal Nations of Mexico
Tribal Nations of North America

4. Breaking it Down Further: First Nations of BC

5. An Even Closer Look: First Nations in the Okanagan, Shuswap and Thompson Regions

6. Looking at it in a Different Way: Language Groups
BC First Nations Language Groups

7. Key Idea? Each Nation is Distinct and Different.
While they may share some similarities, they also share many differences.
To consider all Indigenous of North America to be the same, would be like:
Considering all kids in this class to be the same
Considering all the schools in this district to be the same
Considering the cultures of every province in Canada to be the same

8. Creation Stories
Just like languages differ from nation to nation, so do the stories about how Indigenous populations came to inhabit North America.
One creation story from the Ojibwa/Anishinabe from Eastern Canada talks about the making of ‘Turtle Island.’
While we read, try to find evidence to answer this question:
How do the Ojibwa/Anishinabe understand their relationship with the environment?

9. Turtle Island From turtleislandeducate.com

13. Discuss with a friend and prepare to share…
How do the Ojibwa/Anishinabe understand their relationship with the environment?