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Lesson 8: History Through Art
First Nations | Historical Thinking

Lesson 8: History Through Art

ByDonna Ward

Using an etching of Sitting Bull kicking out Uncle Sam, Jim explores what it means to be Indigenous. He questions why those “first” nations, such as the Sioux who came as late as 1876, have full Indigenous status when Europeans were in Canada long before that. Art Featured: UNCLE SAM FORGIVES SITTING BULL FOR CUSTER…

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Lesson 6: History Through Art
First Nations | Historical Thinking

Lesson 6: History Through Art

ByDonna Ward

A lot of people think Canadian history isn’t very interesting. The painting in today’s lesson was painted by an eye-witness, so we can consider it fairly accurate. When we examine the artwork carefully, we see how different the culture and life was for people back in time, which makes it exotic and exquisite and interesting…

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Lesson 5: History Through Art
First Nations | Historical Thinking

Lesson 5: History Through Art

ByDonna Ward

As part of the fur trade, there was always the danger of having fractious relations with the people that you’re trading with. So both sides tried to do things to cement the relationship and make the trading successful. Intermarriage brought people together. The trapper was looking for someone to look after domestic affairs such as making…

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Lesson 4: History Through Art
First Nations | Historical Thinking

Lesson 4: History Through Art

ByDonna Ward

Four murals which represent courage, enterprise, labour, and justice, painted by George Southwell in 1932, were commissioned and hung in the rotunda of the beautiful B.C. legislature in Victoria, B.C. They depict native men and women, bare-chested and watching or working as clothed colonial men sign documents or supervise. First Nations complained that the murals…

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Lesson 3: History Through Art
First Nations | Historical Thinking

Lesson 3: History Through Art

ByDonna Ward

The painting titled “Pocahontas” was commissioned in 1870. How can we think critically about this painting to determine if is an accurate depiction or another example of a false narrator? Mr. McMurtry looks at the history that is known about the time of the story portrayed in the painting, and clues to discover more about…

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Lesson 7: History Through Art
First Nations | Historical Thinking

Lesson 7: History Through Art

ByDonna Ward

In the painting today, it looks like white European traders are exchanging goods with First Nations, something that obviously was a mutual benefit to both sides. The indigenous people are happy to get metal products, blankets, and beads, and all sorts of things that you probably already know about. And the Europeans were particularly focused…

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Lesson 2: History Through Art
First Nations | Historical Thinking

Lesson 2: History Through Art

ByDonna Ward

Although idealized, the painting A Late West Coast Culture Village Scene by M. Francois Girard, was carefully researched under contract with the Canadian Museum of Civilization to illustrate many of the major characteristics of Late West Coast culture. What does this work tell us about life for these people before the coming of the Europeans,…

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Lesson 1: History Through Art
First Nations | Historical Thinking

Lesson 1: History Through Art

ByDonna Ward

In this video, Mr. McMurtry will expose false narratives with a look at an iconic painting titled The Scream, by Cree artist, Kent Mugman. This work is intended to be propagandist because it’s not an accurate history. It speaks volumes about the official narrative on Indian residential schools. Art Featured: The Scream by Kent Mugman…

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McMurtry: Exposing False Narratives
First Nations | Historical Thinking

McMurtry: Exposing False Narratives

ByDonna Ward

Jim McMurtry has dedicated his life to teaching historical truths. He is a steadfast warrior standing tall in his convictions against the gasping, whimpering left who will eventually expire under the tsunami of prevailing truths. One fateful day in late May 2021, as I was teaching Calculus 12 …, news was feverishly spread about the…

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History Lessons Are More Than Historical Fiction
Historical Thinking

History Lessons Are More Than Historical Fiction

ByDonna Ward

History lessons need more than just story (except in early grades). Historical fiction alone is not a good way to teach history. Here are inaccuracies to watch for. Characters: While historical fiction may be well-researched and the events presented as accurately as possible, the values of the characters will not be. Readers will not like…

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Envoyons de l'avant Lyrics with Translation

Lyrics in French (Canadian dialect):

Quand on part des chanquiers
Mes chers amis tous le coeur gai
Pour aller voir tous nos parents
Mes chers amis le coeur content.
Envoyons d’l’avant nos gens
Envoyons d’l’avant!

Mais qu’nos amis nous voyent arriver
Y vont s’mettr’ à rire, à chanter.
Dimanche au soir à la veillée
Nous irons voir nos compagnées.

Dimanche au soir à la veillée
Nous irons voir nos compagnées.
Elles vont nous dire mais en entrant
V’là mon amant, j’ai l’coeur content!

Elles vont nous dire mais en entrant
V’là mon amant, j’ai l’coeur content!
Et au milieu de la veillée
Elles vont nous parler d’leus cavaliers.

Et au milieu de la veillée
Elles vont nous parler d’leurs cavaliers.
Elles vont nous dire mais en partant
As-tu fréquenté des amants?

Elles vont nous dire mais en partant
As-tu fréquenté des amants?
Qui a composé la chanson?
C’est Jos Blanchet le joli garçon!

English translation:
When we leave the chanquiers (woodworking locations)
My dear friends, all with hearts gay,
To see all our friends and family,
My dear friends, all with hearts gay,

Let’s go boys, let’s go!
Let’s go boys, let’s go!

When our friends will see us arrive,
They start laughing and singing,
Sunday night at the vigil,
We’ll go see our partners,

Sunday night at the vigil,
We’ll go see our partners,
They’ll tell us as we enter,
Here’s my lover, my heart is happy,

They’ll tell us as we enter,
Here’s my lover, my heart is happy,
And at the middle of the vigil,
They’ll tell us of their lovers,

And at the middle of the vigil,
They’ll tell us of their lovers,
And they’ll ask us as we leave,
Did you go see any mistresses?

And they’ll ask us as we leave,
Did you go see any mistresses?
Who wrote the song?
It was Jo Blanchet, the pretty boy

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