For ideas on how to incorporate The Three Sisters and The Birch Bark Canoe videos into your curriculum download the books in PDF format: The Three Sisters: Renewing The World and The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating The New World.

 

For a more philosophical look at the issues:

Suggested Readings

Glen Aikenhead – http://www.usask.ca/education/people/aikenhead/#Conference%20Papers

AERC (University of Saskatchewan Aboriginal Education Research Centre & First Nations’ Adult and Higher Education Consortium, Calgary, AB). (2008). Aboriginal Student Achievement and Positive Learning Outcomes in Canadian Schools: Promising Practices. Retrieved August 18, 2010 from http://www.education.gov.sk.ca/ablkc-k-12-literature-review.

Aikenhead, Glen. (2006). Science and Technology Education from Different Cultural Perspectives (IOSTE 2006, Penang, Malaysia).

Aikenhead, G. (2002). Whose Scientific Knowledge? The Colonizer and the Colonized. Counterpoints, 210, 151-166. Retrieved from https://www.usask.ca/education/documents/profiles/aikenhead/AERA-2000.htm

Aikenhead, Glen. (1996). Towards a First Nations Cross-Cultural Science and Technology Curriculum for Economic Development, Environmental Responsibility, and Cultural Survival (IOSTE 1996).

Buchtmann, L. (2000). Digital Songlines: the Use of Modern Communication Technology by an Aboriginal community in Remote Australia. Prometheus. 18(l). 59-74. doi:10.1080/081 09020050000663. f78/88)

Clark, B. & Wallace, J. (2005). Geographic issues of the 21st century. Don Mills, ON: Pearson Education Canada.

Dei, G.J.S. & Doyle-Wood, S. (2006). Is we who haffi ride di Staam: Critical knowledge/multiple knowings-possibilities, challenges, and resistance in curriculum/cultural contexts. In Yatta Kanu (Ed.), Curriculum as cultural   practice: Postcolonial imaginations, (pp. 151-180). Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.

Ereaux, Jim. (1998). The Impact of Technology on Salish Kootenai College. Wicazo SA Review. Fall 1998.

Fleer, M. (1997). Science, technology and culture: Supporting multiple world views in curriculum design. Australian Science Teachers Journal. 43(3). 13. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database. (85/88)

James, K. (2001). Science and Native American Communities: Legacies of Pain, Visions of Promise (1 ed.). Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.

Kincheloe, J. L. (2006). Critical ontology and indigenous ways of being: Forging a postcolonial curriculum. In Yatta Kanu (Ed.), Curriculum as cultural practice: Postcolonial imaginations, (pp. 151-180). Toronto, ON: University of  Toronto Press.

Lawrence M., F. (1993. September 19). Technology; The Tools of a New Art Form. New York Times, p. 7. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database. (87/88)

Mander, J. (1992). In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Mander, J., & Tauli-Corpuz, V. (2006). Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization (1 ed.). San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

McLoughlin, C. (1999). Culturally responsive technology use: developing an on-line community of learners. British Journal of Educational Technology, 30(3). 231. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database. (79/88)

MEY (Manitoba Education and Youth). (2003). Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives into Curricula.    Winnipeg: Manitoba Education and Youth: School Programs Division.

Muecke, S., & Roe, P. (1991, January). Words from the Other Side. Social Alternatives, pp.2T-28. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database. (88/88)

Pacey, A. (1985). The Culture of Technology. London: The MIT Press.

Pacey, A. (2001). Meaning in Technology (New Ed ed.). London: The Mit Press.

Rycroft, S. (2003). Mapping underground London: the cultural politics of nature. technology and humanity. Cultural Geographies. 10(1), 84-111. doi:10.1I91I1474474003eu263oa. (70/88).

Thiessen, Y., & Looker, E. (2oos). Cultural Centrality And Information And Communication Technology Among Canadian Youth. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 33(.2′). 311-336. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database., (22/88)

Thompson, Dawn. (1995). Technologies of Ethnicity. Essays on Canadian Writing. Toronto: Winter 1995, 67(51-67).

Two Horses, Michael. (1998). Gathering Around the Electronic Fire: Persistence and Resistance in Electronic Formats. Wicazo SA Review. Fall 1998.

Yunkaporta,T., & McGinty, S. (2009). Reclaiming Aboriginal Knowledge at the Cultural Interface. Australian Educational Researcher. 36(2).55-72. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.

Report: Travelling Through Layers: Inuit Artists Appropriate New Technologies. Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 31. No. 1. 2006, pp. 239-246.

Inuit Cyberspace: The Struggle for Access for Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit. Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol.43, No.2, Spring, 2009,pp.220-249,263.

Northern Disconnect: Information Communications Technology Needs Assessment for Aboriginal Communities in Manitoba Native Studies Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2003, pp. 43-69.

Identity, Cultural Values, and American Indians’ Perceptions of Science and Technology. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2006. pp. 45-58.