Big Ideas

• Literary Studies
• Land-Based or Place-Based Learning
• Indigenous Veterans
• Social Justice  
  • Citizenship and Social Responsibility
  • Discrimination
  • Enslaved People(s) and Human Exploitation
  • Exploitation of Natural Resources
  • Family Separation
  • Foster Care and the Child Welfare System
  • Genocide and Cultural Extinction
  • Impacts of Colonization and Colonialism
  • Indian Act
  • Indian Agents
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Land Claims
  • MMIWG2S
  • Pass System in Canada
  • Poverty
  • Prejudice and Racism
  • Residential Schools

• Social Emotional Learning  
  • Character Education
  • Courage
  • Death, Grief, and Bereavement
  • Emotions and Feelings
  • Empathy
  • Friendship
  • Generosity
  • Honesty
  • Kindness
  • Mental Health and Well-Being
  • Respect
  • Responsibility
  • Self-Esteem and Self-Reliance
  • Self-Expression, Creative Writing, and Art
  • Seven Sacred Teachings
  • Sharing
• Contemporary Setting
• Diverse and Inclusive Representation  
  • 2SLGBTQI+
  • Addiction
  • Anxiety
  • Deaf and Hard of Hearing
  • Depression and Suicide
  • Identity
  • PTSD
• Aspects of Indigenous Cultures  
  • Dream Catcher
  • Medicine Wheel or Sacred Hoop
  • Potlatch
  • Powwow
  • Restorative Justice
  • Smudging
  • Spirituality and Ceremony
  • Storytelling and Oral Culture
  • Sweat Lodge
  • Totem Pole
  • Traditional Art
  • Traditional Clothing
  • Traditional Foods
  • Traditional Medicine
  • Traditional Music
  • Worldviews, Teachings, and Protocols

• Authentic Indigenous History
• STEM  
  • Ecosystems
  • Energy
  • Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
  • Life Cycles
  • Numbers to 10
  • Plants
  • Positional Language
  • Properties of Matter
  • Rocks and Minerals
  • Seasonal Cycles
  • Stars
  • Structures
  • Symbiotic Relationships
• Strong Female Characters