1. Zoom In
What do you notice?

2. Ask students if they have ever looked through a microscope or binoculars to look at certain things really close. Discuss what items students see when that happens (example: details) and what they miss by looking at something when it is really close (Example: background)

3. Zoom
By Istvan Banzai
Use the youtube video of the book Zoom or get the book Zoom By Istvan Banyai. Discuss how the author Zooms out from a portion of an image. Key questions to ask:
What do you notice by being super close to something?
What do you notice as more of the whole picture is displayed.

4. Look closely at a portion of a bigger picture
What type of picture do you think it is (painting, photograph)?
What do you see or notice?
What is your hypothesis or interpretation of what this might be about?

5. Look closely at another portion of the same picture
What type of picture do you think it is (painting, photograph)?
What do you see or notice?
What is your hypothesis or interpretation of what this might be about?

6. Look closely at another portion of the same picture
What type of picture do you think it is (painting, photograph)?
What do you see or notice?
What is your hypothesis or interpretation of what this might be about?

7. Look closely as the portion that you can now see is increased on the photograph
Now that the enlarged portion is showing, do your ideas change from the last portion?
What new things do you see?
How does this change your hypothesis or interpretation?
What new things are you wondering about?

8. With the portion enlarged again
What feelings are you getting?
When do you think that this photograph taken?

9. Share information about the photograph
Portrait of Chief Whitecap
This portrait of Chief Whitecap was taken in 1885 while Chief Whitecap was held as a government prisoner in Regina. He was awaiting trial for his alleged participation in the Battle of Batoche. Chief Whitecap was acquitted of all charges and returned to his community.
The photograph was taken by Oliver B. Buell. Buell was born in Henry County, Illinois, and was the son of a photographer. In 1884, he travelled to western Canada to photograph views along the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). In 1885, he photographed the Riel Rebellion and Riel's trial. At this time, he also photographed the other First Nations Chiefs who were arrested and tried for participating in the 1885 North West Resistance.
Information adapted from:
Library and Archives Canada. Indian Industrial Schools Album [graphic material] (R E)
Oliver B. Buel Fonds, Glenbow Museum
Now that you see the whole image:
What lingering questions do you have about the image?
What are your feelings now about the photograph?
Make a text, self or world connection to this photograph.
use the Dakota Information Card on Chief Whitecap to give more information about more biographical information about Chief Whitecap.

10. Chief Whitecap Information
Wapaha Sa was Chief Whitecap’s Dakota name.
1819: Chief Whitecap was born.
1889: Chief Whitecap passed away from tuberculosis.
Chief Whitecap had a wife and children.
When the Canadian government forced First Nations to settle onto reserves, Chief Whitecap’s people settled at Moose Woods (Present site of Whitecap Reserve)
Chief Whitecap built a home for orphans and widows in his community.
Chief Whitecap’s community hunted, raised cattle, and farmed to make a living.
1850’s: Chief Whitecap and other Dakota make peace treaties with the Métis, Saulteaux, and Assiniboine.
1862: Chief Whitecap and other Dakota people return to their northern homeland.
1879: Chief Whitecap and his people settled on land 26 kilometres south of Saskatoon.
1882: Chief Whitecap led John Lake to where the city of Saskatoon would be built.
Chief Whitecap is a co-founder of the city of Saskatoon. Some people call him the father of Saskatoon.
1885: Chief Whitecap asked the Métis to pass through Saskatoon peacefully on their way to Batoche.
Settlers testified to Chief Whitecap’s honesty and loyalty.
Chief Whitecap and his community had friendships with the European settlers.
Chief Whitecap’s community hunted buffalo on the Saskatchewan plains with the Métis and Assiniboine.
Chief Whitecap selected reserve lands along the South Saskatchewan River.
1979: City of Saskatoon names 350 acres of land along the Saskatchewan River “Chief Whitecap Park".
2005: bronze statue was built in Whitecap Park
2009: Highway 219 was named Chief Whitecap Trail.
2017: the school in the Stonebridge community was named after Chief Whitecap.
Chief Whitecap Information

11. Dakota
A tremendous name is Dakota,
meaning We The People.
Through myriad generations
It has served us well.
In the eighteenth century
the French used a Chippewa word
to designate our tribe.
It was misinterpreted and
mispronounced.
Nadoweis-Im-Eg was the word;
and its meaning, Lesser Adders.
The French used only part of it;
and they called us Sioux.
The White Man took his cue
from the French, so all
called us Sioux. We have never
liked the word. We are not snakes.
Honourable men and honourable women
have been our heritage;
and we fought only
to preserve our own way of life.
When a group of people
live just a step from hunger,
it is an eternal axiom
that they will not be imposed upon.
We love the name Dakota.
It is an honourable name.
It has worn well through myriad battles.
It wore well through our buffalo hunts.
Author Unknown
Read the poem aloud and discuss with the class how the poem matches with Chief Whitecap