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Dept. Of Canadian Heritage: Four Directions Teaching

For Students 9th - 10th
Through this colorful and engaging website, students can come to a better understanding of the First Nations communities as they explore the teachings of the Blackfoot, Cree, Ojibwe, Mohawk and Mi'kmaq. Ceremonies, creation stories,...
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An Introduction to North America's Native People: Plains Culture Area

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderful website from Cabrillo College on the Plains Indians can be found here. It gives an in-depth historical overview, profiles of numerous Plains tribes, the significance of the horse, and great information on their culture and...
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Trail Tribes: The Blackfeet

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource on the Blackfeet tribe. It covers the Blackfeet's modern and historical culture, as well as the tribe's relationship with the United States during the days of European settlers. This site provides valuable...
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Montana Tribes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A superb website with a wealth of information on native tribes in Montana. The site has an extensive digital archives with hundreds of videos, all categorized by Essential Understandings. There are lesson plans, historical and current...
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Seeing With New Eyes: A Journey Through Blackfoot Knowledge

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow a Blackfoot teenager as he reconnects with his aboriginal heritage through visits with elders, to historic sites and listening to stories being told.
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Calgary Board of Education: The Blackfoot Nation or Siksika People

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, developed for a grade two and three collaborative project, is an excellent research tool for elementary students studying the history and customs of the Blackfoot and Siksika people.
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Calgary Board Education: Our First Nations: Blackfoot

For Students 3rd - 8th
Educators will find this a useful research model for their students. Each slide addresses a different aspect of the Blackfoot tribe's daily life and culture.
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Glenbow Museum

Glenbow Museum: Pictograph Robes of the Plains Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
Plains Indians often recorded their history in pictograph form on their tipis and buffalo skins. View the original artwork by He Dog (Percy Creighton)as he interpreted the history of the Blood Indians.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal: Culture and Its Meaning/teacher Zone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Teachers Zone within this Edukit has been designed to provide educators with a variety of Aboriginal and Metis inspired lesson plans. The Teacher Zone section includes a teacher information background section regarding the culture...
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Ocb Tracker: Blackfeet Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know who the main characters are in the Blackfeet Tales? Use this site to learn features several of the tales.
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University of Calgary

Canada's First Nations: Native Creation Myths

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's an introduction to the creation myths of Canada's First Nations, which contains a brief look at the themes and content of these stories, as well as the problems that arise when they are translated. Includes links to the creation...
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Montana State University: Blackfeet Creation Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the story of creation through the eyes of the Blackfeet Native Americans. This site features a description of their legend of creation.
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Glenbow Museum

Glenbow Museum: Blackfoot Culture and History

For Students 9th - 10th
A good description of the culture of the Blackfoot from pre-contact to present time. Read about the importance of the buffalo and the treaties which took away the Blackfoot land.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Blackfoot

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Blackfoot. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Calgary Board Education: The Blackfoot Story: Robes and Legends

For Students 3rd - 8th
Story robes hold the history of the Blackfoot. Significant events are recorded on buffalo hides using images and hieroglyphics.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Nature's Law

For Students 9th - 10th
Nature's Law looks at the traditions, culture, governance and spiritual life of the Indigenous People residing in Alberta, such as the Woodland and Plains Cree, Blackfoot and Dene. Videos, quotes and a bibliography all bring this culture...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: North West Rebellion (1885 and After)

For Students 9th - 10th
This article on the Northwest Rebellion offers students multiple interpretations of the events, stating the "dominant society tends to ask- How did this happen?", but the Alberta Online Encyclopedia tries to incorporate the Metis view of...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Blackfoot

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource the students will learn about the culture and origin of the Blackfoot people. An American Indian group.
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American Indian Heritage Foundation

Indians.org: Blackfoot Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to explore the literature of the Blackfeet Native Americans.
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Ruth's Arts and Letters: "The Buffalo Wife, Based on a Blackfoot Myth"

For Students 9th - 10th
A Blackfoot Myth called "The Buffalo Wife" by Ruth Powell in which a chief's daughter makes a sacrifice for her tribe.
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Snowwowl: Native American Shields

For Students 9th - 10th
In many tribes, young males went on a Vision Quest to obtain a "spiritual name" or to find a "Spiritual Guide". At the end of the quest a gift was take to the tribe's Holy Man or Medicine Man. View examples of shields from various Native...