First Nations history: Oka Crisis

We're just finishing a unit on the First Nations in Quebec before the arrival of the Europeans. Today I did a fast forward to focus on the First Nations' political demands in the past century... an introduction that my rap over-simplifies but well... at least I got the students' undivided attention.

When they shout out the cultural groups, that's because they're doing research projects on the Iroquois, Inuit, etc. I thought Simon in the front row was going to sing, but he had his own funky song ready for later.

I apologize for demonizing the Canadian government, but after you watch Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (The Oka Crisis) (1993) you may be feeling as I do about the injustice that our gov't has dished out to the First Peoples.

http://nfb.ca/film/kanehsatake_270_years_of_resistance/

The beat is by my compadre Louis Dugal (FP2).

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[enigmasteph]

looking for some material to teach my students about First nations and came across this... just awesome ! :)

[cka041920]

Yay mr parker...that was a good one

[banffsunshinecanada]

that was awesome..great way to reach the kids